![]() One branch of the river flowed westwards towards Umbar, and the other northeast. In the southeast of Near Harad, a natural gulf fed far into the landmass, and a large river flowed inland from there to the northwest, later forking. The majority of Near Harad is desert, described by Gollum as where the " yellow face is bright and terrible". The boundary between Near Harad and Khand is not described, and it is unclear how far east Near Harad extended. Harondor's climate was most likely a semi-arid grassland but presumably more fertile than Haradwaith's. Harondor, otherwise known as South Gondor, was a buffer zone in the very north of Harad between the lush, verdant grasslands on Gondor's side of the Anduin and the inhospitable dunes of sand to the far south, and was contested over by Gondor and Harad. Harad lay between the sea of Umbar to its west, and Khand to its northeast, and was divided into two main provinces: Near Harad, which was the closest to both Mordor and Gondor, and Far Harad, nearest to the land of Umbar.
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