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The few San Bushmen who still live in their traditional way in Namibia’s Kalahari Desert often travel great distances on foot in pursuit of game.

The Kalahari Desert is located at the heart of southern Africa. It varies between red sand dunes and semi-arid grass- lands, and contains the Okavango Delta, Africa’s largest oasis —the remains of a huge prehistoric lake. The Kalahari stretches across an area of 360,000 square miles (900,000 sq. km), including parts of the countries of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. The Namib Desert is a 1,200-mile (2000-km) long coastal desert: a mix of shifting dunes, rock and gravel plains. Sea fogs

What Is a Desert?

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