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GRASSY FACTS

Sub-Saharan Africa
has the largest, 14.5
million km of total
area in grasslands.

28 per cent of the
world’s grasslands
are found in semiarid
zones. Human
populations are
ighest in the dry
grasslands of
Sub-Saharan Africa

The study of
grasses is
known as
Agrostology

The five countries with
the largest grassland
area are Australia, the
Russian Federation,
China, the United
States, and Canada.

Twenty-five of
the 145 major
watersheds of
the world are
made up of at
least 50 percent
grassland.

The five countries with
the largest grassland
area are Australia, the
Russian Federation,
China, the United

Sub-Saharan Africa has
the most extensive
grassland watersheds;
Europe, the least.

Grasslands cover
some 40 percentof the
earth’ssurface.

 


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