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Kalahari Desert

The 5th largest desert in the world

930,000km²

The Kalahari Desert is a large semiarid sandy savanna in Southern Africa covering 900,000 km2 (350,000 sq mi), including much of Botswana, as well as parts of Namibia and South Africa.

Location: Angola, Botswana, Namibia.

Desert data from Wikidata (CC0).

Other major deserts

  1. Sahara9,200,000 km²
  2. Gobi Desert2,354,460 km²
  3. Arabian Desert2,330,000 km²
  4. Libyan Desert1,100,000 km²
  5. Rub' al Khali680,000 km²
  6. Kazakh semi-desert678,871 km²
  7. Central Asian northern desert663,900 km²
  8. Syrian Desert518,000 km²