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Where is the Kalahari Desert located in Southern Africa?
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Sand dunes and vegetation at Sossusvlei in the Namib desert, Namibia.
The Kalahari Desert is a large, basinlike plain situated on the interior plateau of Southern Africa. It covers nearly the entirety of Botswana, the eastern third of Namibia, and the northernmost region of the Northern Cape province in South Africa. In its southwestern reaches, the desert merges with the Namib, which is the coastal desert of Namibia.1