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.
The north â¦ western part of what is now Wyoming was originally part of the Oregon Country which was claimed by both the United States and Britain. The Oregon Treaty, signed on June 15, 1846 in Washington, D.C., gave control of the part that is now in Wyoming to the United States.