AFRICA MAP SCAVENGER HUNT
How many countries are in Africa?
54
What is the capital of Ethiopia?
Addis Ababa
Africa is the hottest continent on earth. True or False?
True. Africa is the hottest continent on earth.
Cairo is the capital of which country?
Egypt
In which African country does the River Nile meet the sea?
Egypt
What is the largest country in Africa?
Largest Country: Algeria. This country is among the ten largest countries in the world. The most populous country in Africa, however, is Nigeria, with more than 185 million people, but the country is only a third of the size of Algeria.
What are the 8 regions of Africa?
Africa has eight major physical regions: the Sahara, the Sahel, the Ethiopian Highlands, the savanna, the Swahili Coast, the rain forest, the African Great Lakes, and Southern Africa.
What is the biggest island in Africa?
Biggest Island: Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world (after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo).
Africa is home to the tallest land mammal. What is it called?
Giraffe. In Africa, you will find the tallest mammal, the giraffe.
What is the highest mountain in Africa?
Highest Mountain: Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The highest peak of the mountain 'Kibo Peak', also called 'Uhuru Peak', (5,895metres/19,340ft) is located in the Tanzanian highlands.
Africa is home to the largest land mammal. Which one is it?
In Africa, you will find some of the largest mammals on this planet. Among them are the largest land mammal, the African elephant.
Africa is home to the fastest land mammal. Which one is it?
In Africa, you will find the fastest mammal, the cheetah, which can run with speeds up to 113km/hour or 70 miles/hour!
Madagascar is surrounded by which ocean?
Indian Ocean
Which ocean lies between Africa and Australia and south of Asia?
Indian Ocean
Mount Kilimanjaro is located in which African country?
Mount Kilimanjaro is located in Tanzania, a country in East Africa. The mountain is one of the seven summits (the highest peaks on each of the seven continents), and rises 5,895 meters or 19,340 feet above sea level. It is the tallest freestanding mountain (not part of a mountain range) in the world.
Which is the longest river in Africa?
Nile
What are the four great lakes of Africa?
The African Great Lakes include: Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Malawi, Luke Turkana, Lake Albert, Kivu, Lake Rukwa, Lake Mweru, and Lake Edward.
Which is the longest river in Ethiopia?
The Blue Nile
Europe and Africa are separated by which sea?
The Mediterranean Sea
In what African country are the Rwenzori Mountains.
The Rwenzori Mountains, previously called the Ruwenzori Range, is a mountain range of eastern equatorial Africa, located on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These mountains support glaciers and are one source of the Nile river.
Which desert covers much of northern Africa?
The Sahara
What is the most populated city in Africa?
The most populous city in Africa is Lagos with more than 21 million people. Cairo in Egypt is the second largest city in Africa. Other big cities in Africa are: Kinshasa (DR Congo) Johannesburg (South Africa) Casablanca (Morocco) Nairobi (Kenya) Cape Town (South Africa)
What is the southernmost point of the African continent?
The southernmost point of the African continent is Cape Agulhas, which is roughly 170km/100 miles southeast from Cape Town.
How many African countries are landlocked?
There are sixteen landlocked countries in Africa. Two tiny countries, Swaziland and Lesotho, are located within South Africa. These countries are all located in the interior of the continent and have neither access to the Atlantic Ocean nor to the Indian Ocean. Two of these countries, the tiny countries, Swaziland and Lesotho, are located within South Africa.
This country, west of Mozambique and south of Zambia, used to be known as Rhodesia?
Zimbabwe