Kalahari Desert
Southern African drylands
The Kalahari Desert is a vast semi-arid sandy savanna covering much of Botswana and extending into Namibia and South Africa.
Despite its name, it receives enough rainfall to support grasses, shrubs, and wildlife—making it technically not a true desert.
The San people have inhabited the region for thousands of years.
They crossed the Kalahari on foot.
- BushmenSouthern African hunter-gatherers
- hunter gatherersPre-farming nomadic peoples
- BotswanaSouthern African landlocked nation
- water scarcityInsufficient freshwater for demand
- NamibiaSouthwestern African coastal country
cultural heritage · arid climate · survival skills · endemic species · archaeological sites · meerkats · gemsbok · veld · savanna · wildlife conservation · lions · starry skies · acacia · arid · thirst · rainy season · dunes · dust
- AfricaEgypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania
- African GeographySouth Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Morocco, Ghana
- Southern HemisphereAntarctica, Australia, South America, South Africa, New Zealand
- African mapsNorth Africa, East Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, sub-Saharan
- African PlacesCairo, Cape Town, Kilimanjaro, Kruger, Marrakech
- KalahariBotswana, Namibia, South Africa, gemsbok, meerkat
Kalahari DesertAmazon rainforest
Largest tropical forest ecosystem
Congo rainforest · tropical rainforest · swamp · wetlands · Everglades
Kalahari Desertjungle
Dense tropical forest
old-growth forest · temperate rainforest · Black Forest · taiga · boreal forest
Kalahari DesertAntarctic
Southern polar region
tropical zone · Iceland · Arctic · Siberia · Greenland ice sheet
desert, deserted, deserts, Kalahari, desertification, desertify