Some Hidden Facts About Africa

It is a known fact that, Africa is the second-largest content after Asia, which is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean. It is divided in half almost equally by the equator. The equator is an imaginary line which geographically divide the Earth into two equal halves.

Africa has eight major physical regions;

1. The Sahara
2. The Sahel
3. The Ethiopian Highlands
4. The Savana
5. The Swahili Coast
6. The Rainforest
7. The African Great Lakes
8. Southern Africa.

Africa has great variety of physical features including huge deserts, vast areas of tropical rainforest and extensive mountain ranges.

Temperatures in Africa vary from 40*C in the deserts to -20*C in the mountain ranges.

Do you know three of the world’s greatest rivers are in Africa?

Yes, three of the World’s greatest rivers such as the Nile River, the Congo River and the Zambezi River are all located in Africa.

Check this interesting facts about our beautiful and blessed continent Africa.

• At its nearest point, Africa is just 14km from Europe. On this note, there have been intellectual agitations in academic to link these two great continents with a ford (bridge) or a tunnel.
• El Aziziya in Libya is the hottest place in the World. In 1922 it recorded a temperature of 58*C
• The Sahara is the World’s largest hot desert, covering 8.5 million square kilometers (3.3 million square miles). It covers most of North Africa and is almost as large as the USA or about the size of South American country of Brazil. Sahara makes up 25% of the continent.
• The Congo rainforest is the second-largest in the world. It contains thousands of different types of trees and plants and is full of wildlife and insects.
• The Victorial Falls on the Zambezi is the largest waterfall in Africa. The falls are over 1.5km wide and 108m high. The spray can be seen from up to 150km away.
• Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest mountain. It is an old volcano and though located close to the equator, its summit has a permanent snow cap.

NB: The Nile River has a length of about 6,695km and it flows through ten (10) different countries from its source to the Mediterranean Sea.

Sahara Desert is in Algeria

Victoria Falls is in Zambia/Zimbabwe

Okavango Delta is in Botswana

Compiled by:

Francis Egoeh

Geography Teacher at Dison International School

Burma Hills, Accra-Ghana.

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