The country is mainly a stony semidesert, with scattered plateaus and highlands.
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All are also based in the Sahara or the Sahel, the semidesert that runs beneath it.
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Approximately three quarters of Mauritania is desert or semidesert.
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In Southwest Africa they inhabit the semidesert or true desert.
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The southern area of the Mughalzhar Hills is a semidesert.
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The cheetah likes to live in an open biotope, such as semidesert, prairie, and thick brush, though it can be found in a variety of habitats.
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As the sun rose higher over the semidesert land-flat, dotted with brush, a low mountain range to the north-Indian troops peered anxiously toward the border.
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A security official said the group was seized near Dabanga, a frontier town, and was then taken across the Nigerian border into a region of semidesert and scrub where Boko Haram has its base.
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They were descended from Arabs who migrated after the 13th century into an area that extended from the savanna and semidesert west of the Nile to the Abyssinian foothills east of the Blue Nile.
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A region much like a desert but usually located between a desert and the surrounding regions
A semi-arid climate or steppe climate describes climatic regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not extremely so. ...