Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic

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Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic

The Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic is a forest and savanna ecoregion

Ecoregion

An ecoregion , sometimes called a bioregion, is an ecology and geographically defined area smaller than a "realm" or "ecozone". Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural community and species....
of central Africa, part of the belt of transitional forest-savanna mosaic

Forest-savanna mosaic

Forest-savanna mosaic is a transition zone between the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests of equatorial Africa and the drier savannas and open woodlands to the north and south of the forest belt....
that lie between Africa's equatorial forests and the tropical dry forests, savannas, and grasslands that lie to the north and south. The Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic lies between the equatorial Congolian forests

Congolian forests

The Congolian forests are a broad belt of lowland tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests which extends across the basin of the Congo River and its tributaries in Central Africa....
to the south and the drier East Sudanian savanna

East Sudanian savanna

The East Sudanian savanna is a tropical savanna ecoregion of central Africa. It is the eastern half of the broad savanna belt which runs east and west across Africa, from the Atlantic to the Ethiopian Highlands....
to the north. It extends from the Cameroon Highlands in the west, across central Cameroon

Cameroon

The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary state of central and western Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south....
and the southern Central African Republic

Central African Republic

The Central African Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Chad in the north, Sudan in the east, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the south, and Cameroon in the west....
to southwestern Sudan

Sudan

Sudan is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest in the African continent and the Arab World, and List of countries and outlying territories by total area by area....
and northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo , is a country in central Africa with a small length of Atlantic coastline. It is the third largest list of African countries in order of geographical area....
, where it is bounded on the east by flooded grasslands of the Sudd

Sudd

The Sudd also called the Bahr el Jebel in Southern Sudan Sudan, is a vast swamp formed by the White Nile. The Sudd area is one of the largest wetland areas in the world and the largest freshwater wetland in the Nile basin....
, the eastern block of the East Sudanian savanna, and the Albertine Rift montane forests

Albertine Rift montane forests

The Albertine Rift montane forests are a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregion of central Africa. The montane forests cover portions of Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and western Uganda and Tanzania, occupy the parallel mountain ranges that enclose the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the...
.