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.
After the American Revolution, the United States took control of Indiana. It became part of the Northwest Territory in 1787. The Northwest Territory was a large area that also included the future states of Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. In 1800, the region was renamed the Indiana territory when Ohio became a state.