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Kalahari Desert

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Kalahari
Desert
A satellite image o the Kalahari bi NASA World Wind
Kintra  Botswana  Namibie  Sooth Africae
Laundmerks Botswana's Gemsbok National Park, Central Kalahari Game Reserve, Chobe National Park, Kalahari Basin, Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Makgadikgadi Pans
River Orange River
Heichest pynt Brandberg Moontain 8,550 ft (2,610 m)
 - coordinates 21°07′S 14°33′E / 21.117°S 14.550°E / -21.117; 14.550
Lenth 4,000 km (2,485 mi), E/W
Area 930,000 km2 (359,075 sq mi)
Biome Semi-arid desert
The Kalahari Desert (shawn in maroon) & Kalahari Basin (orange)

The Kalahari Desert is a muckle semi-arid saundy savanna in soothren Africae extendin 900,000 square kilometre (350,000 sq mi), coverin much o Botswana, pairts o Namibie (kent as Sooth-Wast Africae frae 1894 tae 1990), an regions o Sooth Africae.

Coordinates: 23°S 22°E / 23°S 22°E / -23; 22