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.
Becoming a State. For many years, the region that included Idaho was claimed by both the United States and Britain. In 1846, the area officially became part of the United States through the Oregon Treaty with Britain. It joined the Oregon Territory in 1848.