Sahel

The Sahel region, or Sahelian acacia savanna, is a biogeographical region in Africa. It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier to the north.
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A landlocked country in the Sahel, remains one…

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is a country in Northeast Africa and is 's third largest country in terms of area.

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is a landlocked country situated in the centre of Africa.

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is a large, arid, landlocked country situated in the Sahel.

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is a land of desert and ocean.

Sahel

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Latitude of center
14.3° or 14° 18′ north
Longitude of center
21.7° or 21° 42′ east
Wiki­data ID
Q66065

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sahel” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sahel”
  • Albanian: “Saheli”
  • Arabic: “الساحل الأفريقي”
  • Arabic: “الساحل الإفريقي”
  • Arabic: “الساحل”
  • Arabic: “منطقة الساحل”
  • Armenian: “Սահել”
  • Arpitan: “Sahèl afriquen”
  • Asturian: “Sahel”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sahel”
  • Bashkir: “Сәхил”
  • Basque: “Sahel”
  • Belarusian: “Сагель”
  • Belarusian: “Сахель”
  • Bengali: “সাহিল”
  • Bengali: “সাহেল”
  • Bosnian: “Sahel”
  • Breton: “Sahel”
  • Bulgarian: “Сахел”
  • Catalan: “regió sudanesa”
  • Catalan: “Sahel africà”
  • Catalan: “Sahel”
  • Chinese: “萨赫勒”
  • Chinese: “萨赫勒地区”
  • Chinese: “萨赫尔”
  • Chinese: “薩赫勒”
  • Chinese: “薩赫爾”
  • Croatian: “Sahel”
  • Czech: “Sahel”
  • Danish: “Sahel-zonen”
  • Danish: “Sahel”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sahel”
  • Dutch: “Sahel-landen”
  • Dutch: “Sahel”
  • Dutch: “West-Afrikaanse Sahel-”
  • Dutch: “West-Afrikaanse Sahel-regio”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الساحل”
  • Esperanto: “Sahela zono”
  • Esperanto: “Sahelo”
  • Esperanto: “Sahelzono”
  • Estonian: “Sahel”
  • Faroese: “Sahel”
  • Finnish: “Saharan Afrikka”
  • Finnish: “Sahel”
  • Finnish: “Saheli”
  • Finnish: “Sahelin alue”
  • Finnish: “Sahelin vyöhyke”
  • Finnish: “Sahelvyöhyke”
  • French: “Afrique sub-sahélienne”
  • French: “Sahel africain”
  • French: “Sahel”
  • Galician: “Deserto do Sahel”
  • Galician: “Sahel”
  • Georgian: “საჰელი”
  • German: “Sahel-Zone”
  • German: “Sahelzone”
  • Greek: “Σαχέλ”
  • Hausa: “Hamada a yankin Sahel”
  • Hausa: “Sahel”
  • Hebrew: “מדינות הסאהל”
  • Hebrew: “סאהל”
  • Hebrew: “סאחל”
  • Hindi: “सहेल”
  • Hindi: “साहिल”
  • Hungarian: “Száhil öv”
  • Icelandic: “Sahel”
  • Ido: “Sahel”
  • Igbo: “Mpaghara Sahel nke Ọdịda Anyanwụ Afrịka”
  • Igbo: “Sahel nke Ọdịda Anyanwụ Afrịka”
  • Igbo: “Sahel”
  • Indonesian: “Sahil”
  • Irish: “an tSaiheil”
  • Irish: “An tSaiheil”
  • Irish: “Saiheil”
  • Italian: “Africa sahariana”
  • Italian: “Africa saheliana”
  • Italian: “Sahel”
  • Japanese: “サヘル”
  • Japanese: “サヘル地域”
  • Japanese: “サヘル帯”
  • Kazakh: “Сахель”
  • Korean: “사헬”
  • Latin: “Sahel”
  • Latvian: “Sāhela”
  • Latvian: “Sāhelas zona”
  • Lithuanian: “Sachelis”
  • Lithuanian: “Sahelis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sahelzon”
  • Macedonian: “Сахел”
  • Malagasy: “Sahely”
  • Malay: “Sahel”
  • Malay: “Sahil”
  • Malayalam: “സാഹേൽ”
  • Marathi: “साहेल”
  • Mingrelian: “საჰელი”
  • Navajo: “Séíbąąh Hatsoh”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sahel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sahel-området”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sahel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sahel-beltet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sahel”
  • Norwegian: “Sahel”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sahèl”
  • Ossetian: “Сахель”
  • Persian: “ساحل صحرا”
  • Persian: “ساحل”
  • Polish: “Sahel”
  • Portuguese: “Saara”
  • Portuguese: “Sahel”
  • Romanian: “Sahara”
  • Romanian: “Sahel”
  • Russian: “Сахара и Сахель”
  • Russian: “Сахел”
  • Russian: “Сахель”
  • Russian: “Сахиль”
  • Rusyn: “Сахел”
  • Serbian: “Сахел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sahel”
  • Shona: “Saheru”
  • Sindhi: “ساحيل حياتياتي جاگرافيائي علائقو”
  • Slovak: “Sahel”
  • Slovenian: “Sahel”
  • Somali: “Sahel”
  • Spanish: “Sahel”
  • Spanish: “Sáhel”
  • Swahili: “Sahel”
  • Swedish: “Sahara”
  • Swedish: “Sahel”
  • Swedish: “Sahelbältet”
  • Swedish: “Sahelregionen”
  • Tagalog: “Sahel”
  • Tamil: “சாகேல்”
  • Tatar: “Сәхил”
  • Telugu: “సాహెల్”
  • Thai: “ซาเฮล”
  • Turkish: “Sahel”
  • Tyap: “Sahet”
  • Ukrainian: “Сахель”
  • Urdu: “ساحل”
  • Venetian: “Sahel”
  • Vietnamese: “Sahel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sahel”
  • Welsh: “Sahel”
  • Welsh: “Y Sahel”
  • Western Frisian: “Sahel”
  • Western Panjabi: “ساحل”
  • Wolof: “Sahel”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨赫勒”
  • Yue Chinese: “沙希爾”

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