Karoo
The Karoo is a semidesert natural region of South Africa. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo is available, so its extent is also not precisely defined.
- Type: Desert
- Description: extensive semi-desert region in South Africa
- Also known as: “Central Karoo”, “Deserto de Karoo”, “Gran Karoo”, “Grand Karoo”, “Grande Karoo”, “Great Karoo”, “Groot Karoo”, “Groß Karoo”, “Grosse Karoo”, “Große Karoo”, “Karoo National Park”, “Karoo National Reserve”, “Karú”, “Karu dykuma”, “Klein Karoo”, “Kleine Karoo”, “Little Karoo”, “Little Karroo”, “Northern Karoo”, “Parco nazionale del Karoo”, “Petit Karoo”, “Piccolo Karoo”, “Upper Karoo”, and “カルー盆地”
Karoo
- Categories: natural region and landform
- Location: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-32.3997° or 32° 23′ 59″ south
Longitude
22.9992° or 22° 59′ 57″ east
Open location code
4GV4JX2X+4M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=desert
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Karoo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Karoo”
- Arabic: “صحراء كارو”
- Armenian: “Կառու”
- Basque: “Karoo”
- Breton: “Karoo”
- Bulgarian: “Кару (географска област)”
- Bulgarian: “Кару”
- Catalan: “Karoo”
- Chechen: “Карру”
- Chinese: “卡魯”
- Chinese: “卡魯地區”
- Chinese: “卡鲁”
- Czech: “Karoo”
- Czech: “Karru”
- Danish: “Karoo”
- Dutch: “Karoo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاروو”
- Esperanto: “Karuo”
- Finnish: “Karoo”
- French: “désert du Karoo”
- French: “Désert du Karoo”
- Galician: “Karoo”
- Georgian: “კარუ”
- German: “Karoo”
- Greek: “Καρού”
- Hebrew: “מדבר קארו”
- Hungarian: “Karoo”
- Indonesian: “Karoo”
- Italian: “Karoo”
- Japanese: “カルー”
- Kazakh: “Karrw”
- Kazakh: “Карру”
- Kazakh: “كاررۋ”
- Lithuanian: “Karu regionas”
- Northern Frisian: “Karoo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karoo”
- Norwegian: “Karoo”
- Persian: “کارو”
- Polish: “Karru”
- Portuguese: “Carru”
- Portuguese: “Karoo”
- Russian: “Кару”
- Slovak: “Karroo”
- Slovenian: “Karu”
- Spanish: “Karoo”
- Swahili: “Karoo”
- Swahili: “Karroo”
- Swedish: “Karoo”
- Tatar: “Карру”
- Turkish: “Karoo”
- Ukrainian: “Карру”
- Ukrainian: “Кару”
- Urdu: “کارو”
- Vietnamese: “Karoo”
- Western Frisian: “Karoo”
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