Jeffrey Allman Gritzner
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LOCATION: Missoula, MT, United States
Professor of Geography; Director, Montana Public Policy Research Institute, University of Montana, Missoula. Author of The West African Sahel: Human Agency and Environmental Change and others.
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Sahara, (from Arabic ṣaḥrāʾ, “desert”) largest desert in the world. Filling nearly all of northern Africa, it measures approximately 3,000 miles (4,800 km) from east to west and between 800 and 1,200 miles from north to south and has a total area of some 3,320,000 square miles (8,600,000 square…
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