Africa

Sahel

The Sahel region, or Sahelian acacia savanna, is a biogeographical region in . It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier to the north.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Mali and Sudan.

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A landlocked country in the Sahel, remains one of the poorest countries in the world, but it has wonderful musicians and some incredible sights, including four UNESCO World Heritage sites and the historic city of .

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is a country in Northeast Africa and is 's third largest country in terms of area. was the continent's largest country up until the secession of in 2011.

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is a landlocked country situated in the centre of Africa. is home to more than 200 different ethnic groups and there are national parks, desert lakes, sand dunes, canyons and camel caravans that will interest the daring and adventurous.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Niger and Mauritania.

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is a large, arid, landlocked country situated in the Sahel. Formerly a French colony, is one of the poorest countries in the world and is largely agrarian.

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is a land of desert and ocean. It is of course no wonder that the main attractions for most tourists are the desert in Adrar and Tagant areas, and the ocean in Banc d'Arguin.

Sahel

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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Satellite Map

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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: “Сагэль”
  • Belarusian: “Сахель”
  • Bengali: “সাহিল”
  • Bengali: “সাহেল”
  • Bosnian: “Sahel”
  • Breton: “Sahel”
  • Bulgarian: “Сахел”
  • Catalan: “regió sudanesa”
  • Catalan: “Sahel africà”
  • Catalan: “Sahel”
  • Chinese: “沙希爾”
  • 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: “Sahel”
  • German: “Sahelzone”
  • Greek: “Σαχέλ”
  • Hausa: “Hamada a yankin Sahel”
  • Hausa: “Sahel”
  • Hebrew: “מדינות הסאהל”
  • Hebrew: “סאהל”
  • Hebrew: “סאחל”
  • Hindi: “सहल”
  • Hindi: “सहेल”
  • Hungarian: “Száhil öv”
  • Icelandic: “Sahel”
  • Ido: “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: “Sahel”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Thai: “Sahel”
  • Thai: “ซาเฮล”
  • Turkish: “Sahel”
  • 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”
  • “Sahel”

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