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  1. Kalahari, Kalahari Desertnoun

    a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana

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  1. Kalahari Desert

    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, and parts of Namibia and South Africa. It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian, and South African Namib coastal desert, whose name is of Khoekhoegowab origin and means "vast place".

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  1. kalahari desert

    The Kalahari Desert is a large, arid to semi-arid sandy area in Southern Africa, covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa. It is characterized by extensive sand dunes, sparse vegetation, and varying wildlife. Despite its aridity, the Kalahari supports a variety of plants and animals, making it more of a semi-desert. The desert is also home to several indigenous people, including the San people, who are known for their survival skills in this harsh environment.

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  1. Kalahari Desert

    The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savannah in southern Africa extending 900,000 square kilometres, covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa. A semi-desert, with huge tracts of excellent grazing after good rains, the Kalahari supports more animals and plants than a true desert, such as the Namib Desert to the west. There are small amounts of rainfall and the summer temperature is very high. The driest areas usually receive 110–200 millimetres of rain per year, and the wettest just a little over 500 millimetres. The surrounding Kalahari Basin covers over 2,500,000 square kilometres extending farther into Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, and encroaching into parts of Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The only permanent river, the Okavango, flows into a delta in the northwest, forming marshes that are rich in wildlife. Ancient dry riverbeds—called omuramba—traverse the Central Northern reaches of the Kalahari and provide standing pools of water during the rainy season. Previously havens for wild animals from elephants to giraffes, and for predators such as lions and cheetahs, the riverbeds are now mostly grazing spots, though leopards and cheetahs can still be found. Among deserts of the southern hemisphere the Kalahari most closely resembles some Australian deserts in its latitude and its mode of formation.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Kalahari Desert

    in S. Africa, stretches far northward from the Orange River between German SW. Africa and the Transvaal, an elevated plateau, not really desert, but covered with scrub and affording coarse pasturage for cattle.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of kalahari desert in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of kalahari desert in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6


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