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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.
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  • Type: Desert
  • Description: extensive semi-desert region in South Africa
  • Also known as: “Karroo”

Karoo

Latitude
-32.3997° or 32° 23′ 59″ south
Longitude
22.9992° or 22° 59′ 57″ east
Open location code
4GV4JX2X+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8040025939
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­desert
Wiki­data ID
Q916997
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Karoo” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Karoo”
  • Arabic: “صحراء كارو”
  • Armenian: “Կառու”
  • Basque: “Karoo”
  • Breton: “Karoo”
  • Bulgarian: “Кару (географска област)”
  • Bulgarian: “Кару”
  • Catalan: “Gran Karoo”
  • Catalan: “Karoo”
  • Catalan: “Petit Karoo”
  • Chechen: “Карру”
  • Chinese: “卡魯”
  • Chinese: “卡魯地區”
  • Chinese: “卡鲁”
  • Czech: “Karoo”
  • Czech: “Karru”
  • Danish: “Karoo”
  • Dutch: “Karoo”
  • Dutch: “Karroo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاروو”
  • Esperanto: “Karuo”
  • Finnish: “Karoo”
  • Finnish: “Karru”
  • French: “désert du Karoo”
  • French: “Désert du Karoo”
  • French: “Grand Karoo”
  • French: “Karoo”
  • French: “Petit Karoo”
  • Galician: “Karoo”
  • Georgian: “კარუ”
  • German: “Groß Karoo”
  • German: “Grosse Karoo”
  • German: “Große Karoo”
  • German: “Karoo”
  • German: “Karroo”
  • German: “Kleine Karoo”
  • Greek: “Καρού”
  • Hebrew: “מדבר קארו”
  • Hungarian: “Karoo”
  • Indonesian: “Karoo”
  • Italian: “Grande Karoo”
  • Italian: “Great Karoo”
  • Italian: “Groot Karoo”
  • Italian: “Karoo National Park”
  • Italian: “Karoo National Reserve”
  • Italian: “Karoo”
  • Italian: “Karroo”
  • Italian: “Karru”
  • Italian: “Klein Karoo”
  • Italian: “Little Karoo”
  • Italian: “Parco nazionale del Karoo”
  • Italian: “Piccolo Karoo”
  • Japanese: “カルー”
  • Japanese: “カルー盆地”
  • Kazakh: “Karrw”
  • Kazakh: “Карру”
  • Kazakh: “كاررۋ”
  • Lithuanian: “Karu dykuma”
  • Lithuanian: “Karu regionas”
  • Northern Frisian: “Karoo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karoo”
  • Norwegian: “Karoo”
  • Persian: “کارو”
  • Polish: “Karru”
  • Portuguese: “Carru”
  • Portuguese: “Deserto de Karoo”
  • Portuguese: “Karoo”
  • Russian: “Карру”
  • Russian: “Кару”
  • Slovak: “Karroo”
  • Slovenian: “Karu”
  • Spanish: “Gran Karoo”
  • Spanish: “Karoo”
  • Spanish: “Karroo”
  • Spanish: “Karú”
  • Swahili: “Karoo”
  • Swahili: “Karroo”
  • Swedish: “Central Karoo”
  • Swedish: “Great Karoo”
  • Swedish: “Karoo”
  • Swedish: “Karroo”
  • Swedish: “Little Karoo”
  • Swedish: “Little Karroo”
  • Swedish: “Northern Karoo”
  • Swedish: “Upper Karoo”
  • Tatar: “Карру”
  • Turkish: “Karoo”
  • Ukrainian: “Карру”
  • Ukrainian: “Кару”
  • Vietnamese: “Karoo”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Karoo”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.