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The Sahel is a vast transition zone stretching across North Africa between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea, characterized by a hot semi-arid climate that lies between the wetter savannas to its south and the Sahara Desert to its north. It matters because this biogeographical region represents a critical ecological boundary and is home to distinctive plant and animal communities adapted to its unique climate conditions.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Sahel is referenced by 1,527 other articles, and connects out to Sahara, terrorism and climate change.
It sits within the topics Afrotropical ecoregions, Ecoregions of Africa and Ecoregions of Chad.
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Key facts
- Ecoregion.name
- Sahel
- Ecoregion.map_caption
- The Sahel region in Africa: a belt up to wide that spans from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea
- Ecoregion.biogeographic_realm
- Afrotropical
- Ecoregion.biome
- Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
- Ecoregion.animals
- Camels, horses
- Ecoregion.bird_species
- Migratory birds
- Ecoregion.mammal_species
- Oryx, gazelles, African buffalo
- Ecoregion.border
- East Saharan montane xeric woodlands
- Ecoregion.border1
- East Sudanian savanna
- Ecoregion.border2
- Ethiopian montane forests
- Ecoregion.border3
- Inner Niger Delta
- Ecoregion.border4
- Lake Chad flooded savanna
- Ecoregion.border5
- South Saharan steppe and woodlands
- Ecoregion.border6
- Sudd flooded grasslands
- Ecoregion.border7
- West Saharan montane xeric woodlands
- Ecoregion.border8
- West Sudanian savanna
- Ecoregion.area
- 3,053,200
- Ecoregion.country
- Algeria
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- region
- Demonym
- saheliano
- Country
- Algeria
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- sub-Saharan Africa
- Image
- Sahel Scene - Dori - Sahel Region - Burkina Faso.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Sudan
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- located in/on physical feature
- Africa
- Commons category
- Sahel
- topic's main category
- Category:Sahel
- different from
- Sahil
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- native label
- Sahel
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Article · Français
Le Sahel (de l'arabe سَاحِل, sāḥil, « rivage » ou « côte », en tamazight : ⵙⴰⵃⵉⵍ) désigne une bande de l'Afrique marquant la transition, à la fois floristique et climatique, entre le domaine saharien au nord et les savanes du domaine soudanien, où les pluies sont substantielles, au sud. D'ouest en est, il s'étend de l'Atlantique à la mer Rouge. La définition de la zone couverte est très variable selon les auteurs. Ainsi pour certains, le Sahel comprend tous les territoires bordant le Sahara : il y a donc un Sahel septentrional et un Sahel méridional. C'est ce dernier qui est cependant désigné quand on ne lui ajoute pas de qualificatif.
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