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The name of the grassland belt south of the Sahara is the Sahel.

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Q: What is the name of the narrow belt of semiard grassland that stretches across Africa just south of the Sahara?
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Where does the Sahara Desert stretch?

The sahara 'stretches' across the northern third of Africa.


What is that strip of land between the Sahara Desert and the rest of Africa?

The Sahel is a grassland transition zone below the Sahara.


Is savanna a state of Africa?

No, savanna is a large area of grassland located below the Sahara.


Is the desert in Africa growing?

The Sahara is expanding into the Sahel, the grassland below the desert.


What is the largest desert that stretches across North Africa?

The Sahara Desert covers most of the northern third of Africa.


Is Africa composed of mostly desert jungle and some grassland?

The northern part of Africa is surrounded by the Sahara and the Sahel, Desert's. South of that Is the Tropical Savannah Grassland. South of that is the Tropical Rainforest's. South of that is Tropical Savannah Grassland. And in south Africa is Deserts.


What is the enormous desert that stretches across North Africa?

The Sahara covers nearly all of the northern third of Africa. It is the second largest desert on earth and largest hot desert. By the way, the word Sahara means desert so to call it the Sahara Desert is a redundancy. It is simply called the Sahara.


What enormous desert stretches across north Africa?

The largest desert in the world is not in Africa, it is in Antarctica. The Sahara is the largest desert in Africa, however.


What is the name of the region in Africa just south of the Sahara Desert?

The Sahel Region.


The word Sahel refers to which areas?

The Sahel is the savanna (grassland) area south of the Sahara Desert in Africa.


Does an impala live in a desert?

The impala is found in the Kalahari Desert but is primarily a grassland animal.


Is the Sahara Africa's only area of desert and semi desert?

No, there are also the Kalahari Desert and the Namib Desert in Africa as well as the Sahel which is a semiarid grassland.