Sahel
The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographic region in Africa. It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north.Tap on the map to travel |
Popular Destinations
Mali
A landlocked country in the Sahel, Mali remains one of the poorest countries in the world, but it has wonderful musicians and some incredible sights, including four UNESCO World Heritage sites and the historic city of Timbuktu.Sudan
Photo: Retlaw Snellac, CC BY 2.0.
Sudan is a country in Northeast Africa and is Africa's third largest country in terms of area.
Chad
Photo: Robertgrafl, Public domain.
Chad is a landlocked country situated in the centre of Africa.
Destinations
Niger
Photo: Jacques Taberlet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Niger is a large, arid, landlocked country situated in the Sahel.
Mauritania
Mauritania is a land of desert and ocean. It is of course no wonder that the main attractions for most tourists are the desert in Adrar and Tagant areas, and the ocean in Banc d'Arguin.Sahel
- Type: region
- Description: ecoclimatic and biogeographic transition zone in Africa
- Neighbors: North Africa
- Location: Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
14.3° or 14° 18' northLongitude of centre
21.7° or 21° 42' eastWikidata ID
Q66065Sahel Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Sahel
- Arabic: Sahel
- Arabic: الساحل
- Arabic: الساحل الأفريقي
- Arabic: الساحل الإفريقي
- Arabic: منطقة الساحل
- Armenian: Սահել
- Arpitan: Sahèl afriquen
- Asturian: Sahel
- Azerbaijani: Sahel
- Bashkir: Сәхил
- Basque: Sahel
- Belarusian: Сагэль
- Belarusian: Сахель
- Bengali: সাহিল
- Bengali: সাহেল
- Bosnian: Sahel
- Breton: Sahel
- Bulgarian: Сахел
- Catalan: Sahel
- Catalan: Sahel africà
- Catalan: regió sudanesa
- Chinese: 沙希爾
- Chinese: 萨赫勒
- Chinese: 萨赫勒地区
- Chinese: 萨赫尔
- Chinese: 薩赫勒
- Chinese: 薩赫爾
- Croatian: Sahel
- Czech: Sahel
- Danish: Sahel-zonen
- Danish: Sahel
- Dimli (individual language): Sahel
- Dutch: Sahel-landen
- Dutch: Sahel
- Dutch: West-Afrikaanse Sahel-
- Dutch: West-Afrikaanse Sahel-regio
- Egyptian Arabic: الساحل
- English: West African Sahel
- English: West African Sahel region
- Esperanto: Sahela zono
- Esperanto: Sahelo
- Esperanto: Sahelzono
- Estonian: Sahel
- Faroese: Sahel
- Finnish: Sahel
- Finnish: Saheli
- Finnish: Sahelin alue
- Finnish: Sahelin vyöhyke
- Finnish: Sahelvyöhyke
- French: Afrique sub-sahélienne
- French: Sahel
- French: Sahel africain
- Galician: Deserto do Sahel
- Galician: Sahel
- Georgian: საჰელი
- German: Sahel-Zone
- German: Sahelzone
- Greek: Σαχέλ
- Hausa: Hamada a yankin Sahel
- Hausa: Sahel
- Hebrew: מדינות הסאהל
- Hebrew: סאהל
- Hebrew: סאחל
- Hindi: सहल
- Hindi: सहेल
- Hungarian: Száhil öv
- Icelandic: Sahel
- Ido: Sahel
- Indonesian: Sahil
- Irish: An tSaiheil
- Irish: Saiheil
- Irish: an tSaiheil
- Italian: Africa saheliana
- Italian: Sahel
- Japanese: サヘル
- Japanese: サヘル地域
- Japanese: サヘル帯
- Kazakh: Сахель
- Korean: 사헬
- Latin: Sahel
- Latvian: Sāhela
- Latvian: Sāhelas zona
- Lithuanian: Sachelis
- Lithuanian: Sahelis
- Macedonian: Сахел
- Malagasy: Sahely
- Malay: Sahel
- Malay: Sahil
- Malayalam: സാഹേൽ
- Marathi: साहेल
- Mingrelian: საჰელი
- Navajo: Séíbąąh Hatsoh
- Northern Frisian: Sahel
- Norwegian: Sahel
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sahel-området
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sahel
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sahel-beltet
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sahel
- Occitan (post 1500): Sahèl
- Persian: ساحل
- Persian: ساحل صحرا
- Polish: Sahel
- Portuguese: Saara
- Portuguese: Sahel
- Romanian: Sahara
- Romanian: Sahel
- Russian: Сахара и Сахель
- Russian: Сахел
- Russian: Сахель
- Russian: Сахиль
- Rusyn: Сахел
- Serbian: Сахел
- Serbo-Croatian: Sahel
- Shona: Saheru
- Slovak: Sahel
- Slovenian: Sahel
- Somali: Sahel
- Spanish: Sahel
- Spanish: Sáhel
- Swahili: Sahel
- Swedish: Sahara
- Swedish: Sahel
- Swedish: Sahelbältet
- Swedish: Sahelregionen
- Tagalog: Sahel
- Tamil: சாகேல்
- Tatar: Сәхил
- Thai: Sahel
- Thai: ซาเฮล
- Turkish: Sahel
- Ukrainian: Сахель
- Urdu: ساحل
- Venetian: Sahel
- Vietnamese: Sahel
- Waray (Philippines): Sahel
- Welsh: Sahel
- Welsh: Y Sahel
- Western Frisian: Sahel
- Western Panjabi: ساحل
- Wolof: Sahel
- Wu Chinese: 萨赫勒
- Yue Chinese: 沙希爾
- Africa sahariana
- Saharan Afrikka
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