in Africa. The Kalahari Desert (Dorsland in Afrikaans) is a large semi-arid savanna in South Africa covers 900,000 km Â² sand (350,000 square miles) that much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa.
The Oregon Territory, 1846. Along with territorial disputes with Spain and Mexico over the Southwest, the fate of the Oregon Territory was one of the major diplomatic issues of the first half of the 19th century.
Washington became a state on 11 November 1889. It had previously been the Washington Territory, split from the Oregon Territory in 1848.