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The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.
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This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. It includes all deserts above 50,000 km 2 (19,300 sq mi). Some of Earth 's biggest non-polar deserts
The Kalahari Basin, also known as the Kalahari Depression, Okavango Basin or the Makgadikgadi Basin, [1] is an endorheic basin and large lowland area covering approximately 725,293 km 2 (280,037 sq mi) — mostly within Botswana and Namibia, but also parts of Angola, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Nyiri Desert – a desert located in southern Kenya along the border with Tanzania; Lompoul Desert – a desert lying in northwestern Senegal between Dakar and Saint-Louis; Sahara Desert – Africa's largest desert and the world's largest hot desert which covers much of North Africa comprising:
At 581,730 km 2 (224,607 sq mi), Botswana is the world's 48th-largest country. [57] It also has a mean altitude of roughly 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above sea level. [58] [59] Botswana is predominantly flat, tending towards gently rolling tableland. [60] Botswana is dominated by the Kalahari Desert, which covers up to 70% of its land surface. [61]
Satellite view of Africa 1916 physical map of Africa. The average elevation of the continent approximates closely to 600 m (2,000 ft) above sea level, roughly near to the mean elevation of both North and South America, but considerably less than that of Asia, 950 m (3,120 ft). In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively ...
The Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands are bounded on the north by the Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands, and on the east by the Bushveld. The Kalahari xeric savanna lies to the south and west, and the Angolan mopane woodlands to the northwest.