Sahel

• Details
• Tagged entities

Properties

SES ID

• 12617

Notation

• 12617

In scheme

• Geography

Broader

• Africa

Related

• Algeria
• Burkina Faso
• Chad
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Somalia
• Sudan

Definition

• An area in Africa stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. It is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition between the Sahara desert in the north and Sudanese savannas in the South.