Africa
Southern Africa
Botswana

Kalahari Desert

The Kalahari Desert is a large semiarid sandy savanna in covering 900,000 km2 including much of as well as parts of and .
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  • Type: Desert
  • Description: desert in southern Africa
  • Also known as: “Kalahari-Woestyn”

Kalahari Desert

Latitude
-23° or 23° south
Longitude
22° east
Elevation
1,168 metres (3,832 feet)
Open location code
5G942222+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4873729921
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­desert
Geo­Names ID
933699
Wiki­data ID
Q47700
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kalahari Desert” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kalahari-woestyn”
  • Afrikaans: “Kalahari”
  • Albanian: “Kallahari”
  • Arabic: “صحراء كالاهاري”
  • Arabic: “صحراء كلهاري”
  • Arabic: “كالهاري”
  • Arabic: “كلهاري”
  • Armenian: “Կալահարի”
  • Asturian: “Kalahari”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kalaxari”
  • Bashkir: “Калахари”
  • Basque: “Kalahari basamortua”
  • Basque: “Kalahari”
  • Belarusian: “Калахары”
  • Belarusian: “Пустыня Калахары”
  • Bengali: “কালাহারি মরুভূমি”
  • Bosnian: “Kalahari”
  • Breton: “Kalahari”
  • Bulgarian: “Калахари”
  • Catalan: “Desert de Kalahari”
  • Catalan: “Desert del Kalahari”
  • Catalan: “Kalahari”
  • Cebuano: “Kalahari Desert”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیابانی کەلاھاری”
  • Chinese: “卡拉哈里沙漠”
  • Chinese: “喀拉哈里沙漠”
  • Croatian: “Kalahari”
  • Czech: “Kalahari”
  • Danish: “Kalahari-ørkenen”
  • Danish: “Kalahari”
  • Dutch: “Kalahari”
  • Dutch: “Kalahariwoestijn”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صحرا كالاهارى”
  • Esperanto: “Kalahari”
  • Esperanto: “Kalaharo”
  • Estonian: “Kalahari kõrb”
  • Faroese: “Kalahari”
  • Faroese: “Kalaharioyðimørk”
  • Finnish: “Kalahari”
  • Finnish: “Kalaharin autiomaa”
  • French: “Desert du Kalahari”
  • French: “désert du Kalahari”
  • French: “Désert du Kalahari”
  • Galician: “Deserto de Kalahari”
  • Galician: “Deserto do Kalahari”
  • Galician: “Kalahari”
  • Georgian: “კალაჰარი”
  • German: “Kalahari-Becken”
  • German: “Kalahari-Wüste”
  • German: “Kalahari”
  • German: “Kalahariwüste”
  • Greek: “Έρημος Καλαχάρι”
  • Greek: “Καλαχάρι”
  • Hausa: “Hamadar Kalahari”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר קלהארי”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר קלהרי”
  • Hebrew: “קלהארי”
  • Hebrew: “קלהרי”
  • Hindi: “कालाहारी मरुस्थल”
  • Hindi: “कालाहारी रेगिस्तान”
  • Hindi: “कालाहारी”
  • Hungarian: “Kalahári-sivatag”
  • Hungarian: “Kalahári”
  • Icelandic: “Kalaharí-eyðimörkin”
  • Icelandic: “Kalaharí”
  • Icelandic: “Kalaharíeyðimörkin”
  • Indonesian: “Gurun Kalahari”
  • Italian: “Deserto del Kalahari”
  • Italian: “Kalahari”
  • Japanese: “カラハリ沙漠”
  • Japanese: “カラハリ砂漠”
  • Kabiyè: “Kalaharii kañɩmbʊsaɣ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಲಹರಿ ಮರುಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Калахари”
  • Kirghiz: “Калахари”
  • Korean: “칼라하리 사막”
  • Latin: “Kalahari”
  • Latvian: “Kalahari tuksnesis”
  • Latvian: “Kalahari”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalaharis”
  • Macedonian: “Калахари”
  • Maithili: “कालाहारी मरुभूमि”
  • Malagasy: “Efitr‘ i Kalahari”
  • Malagasy: “Efitr’ i Kalahari”
  • Malay: “Gurun Kalahari”
  • Malay: “Kalahari”
  • Malayalam: “കലഹാരി മരുഭൂമി”
  • Marathi: “कालाहारी वाळवंट”
  • Mingrelian: “კალაჰარი”
  • Nepali: “कालाहारी मरुभूमि”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kalahari”
  • Northern Sami: “Kalahari sáttoáhpi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalahari-ørkenen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalahari”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalahariørken”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalahariørkenen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalahari-ørkenen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalahari”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalahariørkenen”
  • Norwegian: “Kalahariørkenen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Desèrt de Kalahari”
  • Oromo: “gammoojjii Kaalahaari”
  • Oromo: “Gammoojjii Kaalahaari”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਲਾਹਾਰੀ ਮਾਰੂਥਲ”
  • Persian: “بیابان کالاهاری”
  • Persian: “صحرای کالاهاری”
  • Persian: “کالاهاری”
  • Polish: “Kalahari”
  • Polish: “Kotlina Kalahari”
  • Polish: “Pustynia Kalahari”
  • Portuguese: “Calaari”
  • Portuguese: “Calaári”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Calaari”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Calaári”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Kalahari”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto do Calaari”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto do kalahari”
  • Portuguese: “Kalahari”
  • Quechua: “Kalahari”
  • Romanian: “Deşertul kalahari”
  • Romanian: “Deșertul Kalahari”
  • Romanian: “Deşertului Kalahari”
  • Romanian: “Deșertului Kalahari”
  • Romanian: “Kalahari”
  • Russian: “Калахари”
  • Rusyn: “Калагарі”
  • Scots: “Kalahari Desert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kalahari Desert”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kalahari”
  • Serbian: “Калахари пустиња”
  • Serbian: “Калахари”
  • Serbian: “Пустиња Калахари”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kalahari”
  • Sindhi: “ڪالاهاري ريگستان”
  • Sinhala: “කලහාරි කාන්තාරය”
  • Slovak: “Kalahari”
  • Slovenian: “Kalahari”
  • Somali: “Lamadegaanka Kalahari”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کالاهاری چؤلو”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کالاهاری صحراسی”
  • Spanish: “Desierto de Kalahari”
  • Spanish: “Desierto del Kalahari”
  • Spanish: “Desierto Kalahari”
  • Spanish: “Kalahari”
  • Spanish: “Kalajari”
  • Swahili: “Jangwa la Kalahari”
  • Swedish: “Kalahari Desert”
  • Swedish: “Kalahari”
  • Swedish: “Kalahariöknen”
  • Tajik: “Калахари”
  • Tajik: “Колоҳорӣ”
  • Tamil: “கலகாரிப் பாலைவனம்”
  • Tatar: “Калахари”
  • Thai: “Kalahari Desert”
  • Thai: “ทะเลทรายคาลาฮารี”
  • Tswana: “Sekaka sa Kalahari”
  • Turkish: “Kalahari Çölü”
  • Turkish: “Kalahari”
  • Ukrainian: “Калахарі”
  • Urdu: “Kalahari Desert”
  • Urdu: “صحرائے کالاہاری”
  • Uzbek: “Kalahari”
  • Vietnamese: “Hoang mạc Kalahari”
  • Vietnamese: “Kalahari”
  • Vietnamese: “Sa mạc Kalahari”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Disyerto Kalahari”
  • Welsh: “Kalahari”
  • Western Frisian: “Kalahary”
  • Western Panjabi: “کالاہاری روہی”
  • Western Panjabi: “کالاہاری صحراء”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡拉哈里沙漠”
  • Yakut: “Калахаари”
  • Yue Chinese: “喀拉哈里沙漠”

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