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Map of Africa with land cover mapped as a 20 meter resolution, as originally published by the European Space Agency in 2017. Land cover across Africa can be broken into three primary bands: bare areas, largely in the northern third representing the Sahara Desert; tree cover, which stretches across central Africa along the equator; and shrub cover, which is prominent in the southern Africa and along the Horn. Where these areas meet, grasslands and cropland are common.