Sunday, March 8, 2009

Countries in the Sahel



Countries in the Sahel are a semi-arid tropical savanna region and they border the Sahara Desert. The Sahel region is 200-400 meters in elevation and used to have florishing kingdoms that benefited from trade. Unfortunatley, the Sahel is suffering from many diffculties today.

COUNTRY POPULATION AREA
BURKINA FASO 1322800 274000
CHAD 10780600 1284000
THE GAMBIA 1700000 10380
GUINEA-BISSAU 1586000 36544
MALI 11995402 1250192
NIGER 1327679 1267000
SENEGAL 11658000 196723
SUDAN 39379358 2505813

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  1. If you're reading this, sorry about the numbers being messed up together, we tried to space them but it didn't work...
    ~Aditi (& Hermione)

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