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Veld
Type of rural landscape in South Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Veldt" redirects here. For other uses, see Veldt (disambiguation).
Veld (/vɛlt/ or /fɛlt/), also spelled veldt, is a type of wide open rural landscape in Southern Africa. Particularly, it is a flat area covered in grass or low scrub, especially in the countries of South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and Botswana. A certain sub-tropical woodland ecoregion of Southern Africa has been officially defined as the Bushveld by the World Wide Fund for Nature.[1] Trees are not abundant—frost, fire and grazing animals allow grass to grow, but prevent the build-up of dense foliage.
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