Despite its name, the Kalahari is not a true desert. It is a large semi-arid sandy savanna covering about 900,000 square kilometers of southern Africa, with a broader basin extending past 2.5 million square kilometers across several countries. Its denser ground cover supports far more plant and animal life than a genuine desert such as the neighboring Namib. The name likely derives from the Tswana word for the great thirst, or a waterless place. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Kalahari Desert is a large semiarid sandy savanna in Southern Africa covering 900,000 km2
- Biogeographic realm: afrotropic (derived from location stated in entity description)
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located in Kuruman River Reserve in Northern South Africa
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