Geography of Africa Geography of Africa The African Rainforest is a large expanse of rainforest at the centre of the African continent. The dense forest begins south of the plains region of the Sahel and a region of more sparse forest. It covers the southern most part of West Africa, including most of the Guinea coast. It extends south covering most of the Congo. To the east the higher elevation of the Great Lakes limits the forest. ...more on Wikipedia about "African rainforest"
The Barbary Coast, or Barbary, was the term used by Europeans until the 19th century to refer to the coastal regions of what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. The name is derived from the Berber people of north Africa. In the West, the name commonly evokes the Arab slave traders based on that coast, who captured and traded slaves from Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. It also evokes the Barbary pirates, based on the North African coast, who attacked shipping in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbary Coast"
Biffeche or Bifeche was the early name for a medium-sized island (Isle de Bifeche) in the delta ...more on Wikipedia about "Biffeche"
British East Africa was a British protectorate in East Africa, covering generally the area of present-day Kenya and lasting from 1890 to 1920, when it became the colony of Kenya. ...more on Wikipedia about "British East Africa"
The Bulge of Africa is composed of West Africa and the Maghreb. This distinctive landmass gives Africa its characteristic shape. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bulge of Africa"
The Congo is the largest river in Western Central Africa. Its overall length of 4,380 km (2,720 mi) makes it the second longest in Africa (after the Nile). If the Chambeshi River is taken as the source, the overall length increases to 4,670 km (2900 mi). The river and its tributaries flow through the second largest rain forest area in the world, only the Amazon Rainforest being (much) larger. The river also has the second-largest flow in the world, behind the Amazon, and the second-largest watershed of any river, again trailing the Amazon and slightly ahead of the Mississippi. Because long sections of the river lie above and below the equator, its flow is very stable, as any given part of it is always experiencing a rainy season. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Congo River"
In West Africa, the Dahomey Gap refers to the area of savanna that extends all the way to the coast in Benin, Togo and Ghana, thus separating the forest zone that covers much of the south of the region into two separate parts. These are sometimes called the Guinean forest zone (west of the Gap) and the Congolian Forest Zone (east of Gap). ...more on Wikipedia about "Dahomey Gap"
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In West Africa, the forest zone refers to the southern part of the region once largely covered by tropical rainforest. Sometimes this region is referred to as Guinea to distinguish it from the grassland-covered Sudan, drier Sahel and perarid Sahara. ...more on Wikipedia about "Forest zone"
The Great North Road in Africa refers to the route that connects Cape Town to Cairo and remains uncompleted. Parts in South Africa, Central Africa, and East Africa may be individually referred to as Great North Road. Arusha in Tanzania has a marker for the midpoint. ...more on Wikipedia about "Great North Road (Africa)"
The Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic southwest of Africa. The gulf is considered the geographic center of the earth because it is zero degrees longitude and latitude (where the Equator and Prime Meridian meet). ...more on Wikipedia about "Gulf of Guinea"
The northern end of the Red Sea is bifurcated by the Sinai Peninsula, creating the Gulf of Suez (Arabic: Khalij as Suways) in the west and the Gulf of Aqaba to the east. The Gulf of Suez is a relatively young rift basin, dating back 40 million years. ** It which stretches some 175 miles north by northeast, terminating at the Egyptian city of Suez and the entrance to the Suez Canal. Along the mid-line of the Gulf lies the border between the continents of Africa and Asia. ** The entrance of the Gulf lies atop the mature Gemsa oil and gas field. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Gulf of Suez"
The Horn of Africa (or, Somali Peninsula) is a peninsula of East Africa that juts into the Arabian Sea and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. It is the easternmost projection of the African continent, and so-called because of its resemblance to a rhinoceros's horn. ...more on Wikipedia about "Horn of Africa"
The Kalansho Sand Sea is located in Africa's Libyan Desert. The three sand seas contain dunes up to 110 m in height and cover ~25 % of the Libyan Desert. The dunes were created by the wind. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kalansho Sand Sea"
The MegaFlyover project was a seven month aerial survey from June 2004 to January 2005 by explorer/ecologist J. Michael Fay and pilot Peter Ragg sponsored by the National Geographic Society and others. They criss-crossed Africa from South Africa to Morocco in a modified Cessna 182, logging 60,000 miles (about 100,000 kilometers) and taking more than 100,000 high-resolution digital GPS-marked images shot from low altitude (every 20 seconds). ...more on Wikipedia about "MegaFlyover"
The Mozambique Channel is a portion of the Indian Ocean between the island of Madagascar and southeast Africa, namely Mozambique. It was a World War II clashpoint. The channel is approximately 460 kilometers across at its narrowest point between Angoche, Mozambique and Tambohorano, Madagascar. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mozambique Channel"
The Nile ( Arabic: النيل an-nīl), in Africa, is one of the two longest rivers on Earth. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nile"
The Rebiana Sand Sea is located in the western part of Africa's Libyan Desert. The three sand seas contain dunes up to 110 m in height and cover ~25 % of the Libyan Desert. The dunes were created by the wind. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rebiana Sand Sea"
The Red Sea ( Arabic البحر الأحمر al-Bahr al-Ahmar; Hebrew ים סוף Yam Suf; Tigrigna ቀይሕ ባሕሪ QeyH baHri) is a gulf or basin of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden. In the north is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal). The sea is roughly 1900 km long and at its widest is over 300 km. The sea floor has a maximum depth of 2,500 m in the central median trench and an average depth of 500 m, but it also has extensive shallow shelves, noted for their marine life and corals. The sea has a surface area of roughly 438,000 or 450,000 km². The sea is the habitat of over 1000 invertebrate species and 200 soft and hard corals. The sea occupies a part of the Great Rift Valley. The Red Sea is the world's most northern tropical sea. ...more on Wikipedia about "Red Sea"
The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, over 9,000,000 km² (3,500,000 mi²), or about the same size as the United States. The Sahara is located in northern Africa and is 2.5 million years old. Its name, Sahara, is an English pronunciation of the word for desert in Arabic (صحراء ). ...more on Wikipedia about "Sahara"
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