The Sahel is a belt of scrubland running from the Red Sea to the Atlantic, roughly 200-300 miles wide and 1,000+ miles across, located just south of the Sahara Desert; it includes parts of Sudan, Chad, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso.

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Tim Marshall

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sahal Arabic for the shoreline the shoreline being the shore that after you've gone across the sea of sand that is the Sahara you reach the shoreline where it becomes I wouldn't say arable but it's more um scrub land

Source

How Geography Explains Our World, with Tim Marshall (Part 1)Intelligence Squared
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:30:50 AM

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