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Southern Africa
Sand dunes and vegetation at Sossusvlei in the Namib desert, Namibia.
The region of Southern Africa, which comprises the countries of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, covers an area of 2,314,764 square miles (5,995,215 square km).1