The total area of the Sahara is almost 9.1 million square kilometres (3.5 million sq miles). That is about 25% of the total area of Africa
The Sahara Desert covers most of the northern third of Africa which includes a number of countries.
I think it is the Sahel
Sahel
Just a single example is Africa's southern Sahara. The Sahara Desert is creeping south, and ahead of it the land is drying and losing its ability to support plant growth. This is a disaster for the millions of people who live there, not to mention the wild animals.
these hot springs are just out of whakatane and south of rotorua
the gulf of Alaska (not the gulf of new Orleans or Mexico) by T and D
Scarborough is a town on the North East coast of England. South Cliff is the coastline just south of the town centre.
Desertification causes the savannas in the Sahel to disappear. It also causes the already vast Sahara desert to spread to more places than just where it currently is. So in short... the Sahel and rain forests are shrinking and the Sahara is growing.
The importance of sahel is that it is a semiarid just south of the sahara.
The Sahel Region.
The Sahel is a semiarid region just south of the Sahara. It is a transition zone between the Sahara and grasslands further south. It is rapidly turning into true desert due to a process called desertification.
The Sahel is located just to the south of the Sahara.
The Sahel, a grassland, is directly south of the Sahara Desert.The Sahel, a grassland, is directly south of the Sahara Desert.
The Sahara Desert lies just south of the Tropic of Cancer. The Sahara (which means desert) is located in Africa.
Directly south of the Sahara is called Sub-Saharan Africa. Then further south its just called Africa.
The name of the grassland belt south of the Sahara is the Sahel.
Sahara -
Semi-arid - the Sahel.
okay so the Sahara is of corse south of the equator because africa is south of the equator
The major deserts of Africa are the Sahara, the Kalahari and the Namib. There is also the Danakil Desert. The Danakil Desert is a desert in northeast Ethiopia, southern Eritrea, and northwestern Djibouti.