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AFRI CA Overview
RICA lies at the heart of the earth's land Then, during the nineteenth century, masses. It sits astride the equator, with European traders began setting up trading sta . almost half the continent to the north tions along the coast of West Africa. The of the equator, and half to the south. It con traders, and their governments, soon saw great tains some of the world's greatest deserts, as opportunity for profit in Africa. Eventually, well as some of the world's greatest rivers. It many European countries took control of the has snow-capped mountains, and parched, arid land and divided it into colonies. plains. The first humans came from Africa. By the middle of the twentieth century, peo And in the millennia since those fust humans ple all across Africa had demanded indepen walked the plains of Africa, many different cul dence from colonial rule. By the end of the tures have arisen there. century, government had passed firmly into Physically, Africa is one enormous plateau. It African hands. However, the newly independ has no continental-scale mountain chains, no ent nations must still deal with the legacy of peninsulas, no deep fjords. Most of the conti colonialism. The boundaries the European nent is more than 1000 feet (300m) above sea powers created often cut across ethnic and cul level; over half is above 2500 feet (800 m). tural groups. Many African nations today are Africa's early history reflects the wide stretch still struggling to reconcile the different cul of the continent. It is widely varied. The fertile tures within their borders. river valley of the Nile was the center of one of Although Africa is one region physically, it the world's first civilizations. In the west, a contains several distinct subregions. Some series of empires rose, flourished, then faded. subregions are physically distinct from the rest And in central and east Africa, ruins like that at of the continent. North and West Africa are Great Zimbabwe attest to past civilizations. two examples. Some are separated more by cul However, in much of Africa, a rural, agricultur ture, like Southern Africa. Each subregion has al tradition persisted. its own character.
Think About It Eight countries in West Africa have currencies named after the French franc. Why do you think this might be? .
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AFRICA, PART 1: NORTH AFRI CA Word List
Political Features Tripoli Nile River COUNTRIES Tunis Red Sea Algeria Strait of Gibraltar Physical Features Egypt BoDIES OF WATER Suez Canal Libya Atlantic Ocean LAND fEATURES Morocco Ahaggar Mts. Gulf of Aqabah Tunisia Arabian Desert Gulf of Gabes DISPUTED TERRITORY Gulf of Sidra Atlas Mts. Western Sahara Gulf of Suez Jebel Toubkal CAPITALS Libyan Desert Lake Nasser Algiers Sahara Desert Mediterranean Sea Cairo Nile Delta Sinai Peninsula Rabat
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AFRICA, PART II: WEST AFRICA Word List
Political Features CAPITALS Physical Features CouNTRIES Ahuja RIVERS Benin Accra Benue River Burkina Faso Bamako Black Volta River Cape Verde Banjul Gambia River Cote d'Ivoire Bissau Niger River Gambia Conakry Senegal River Ghana Dakar Volta River Guinea Freetown White Volta River Guinea-Bissau Lome OTHER WATER BoDIES Liberia Monrovia Atlantic Ocean Mali Niamey Bight of Benin Mauritania Nouakchott Bight of Biafra Niger Ouagadougou Gulf of Guinea Nigeria Porto-Novo Lake Chad Senegal Praia Lake Volta Sierra Leone Yamoussoukro Mouths of the Niger Togo LAND FEATURES Mt. Dimlang Sahara Desert
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Weston 'Walch, Publisher 1 01 Geographic Literacy@ Name: Date: AFRICA, PART Ill: CENTRAL AFRICA Word List Political Features Libreville Bight of Biafra CouNTRIES Malabo Gulf of Guinea Cameroon N'Djamena Lake Albert Central African Republic Sao Tome Lake Chad Chad Yaounde Lake Edward Congo Lake Kivu Physical Features Democratic Republic of Lake Tanganyika the Congo RIVERS Stanley Falls Equatorial Guinea Congo River LAND FEATURES Kasai River Gabon Monts Bleu Lomami River Sao Tome and Principe Mitumba Mts. Lualuba River CAPITALS Mt. Fako Sanaga River Bangui Sahara Desert Ubangi River Brazzaville Tibesti Mts. OTHER WATER BoDIES Kinshasa Atlantic Ocean © 1987, 1994, 2001 J. Weston Walch, Publisher 107 Geographic Literacy @ Name: Date: A FRICA, PART Ill: CENTRAL A F RI CA Labeled Political Map ... -: . -: ·: ... .. 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Weston Walch, Publisher 11 0 Geographic Litera cy @ Name: Date: AFRICA, PART IV: EAST AFRICA AND SOUTHERN AFRICA Word List Political Features As mara White Nile River COUNTRIES Bujumbura Zambezi River Angola Dar es Salaam OTHER WATER BoDIES Botswana Djibouti Atlantic Ocean Burundi Gaborone Gulf of Aden Comoros Harare Indian Ocean Djibouti Kampala Lake Albert Eritrea Khartoum Lake Edward Ethiopia Kigali Lake Nyasa Kenya Lilongwe Lake Tanganyika Lesotho Luanda Lake Victoria Madagascar Lusaka Mozambique Channel Malawi Maputo Red Sea Mauritius Maseru Victoria Falls Mozambique Mbabane LAND FEATURES Namibia Mogadishu Cape of Good Hope Rwanda Moroni Drakensburg Mts. Seychelles Nairobi Ethiopian Highlands Somalia Port Louis Kalahari Desert South Africa Pretoria Mt. 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