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continent by the Urall mountains, the Caspian remains very hot throughout the year. Eastern
Sea and the Black Sea. Since no large water Asia borders the Pacific and is a region of high-
body separates Asia from Europe, the two are lands and islands.
together known as Eurasia. A large part of Asia The world’s highest mountain, the Himalayas;
in the north, lies within the Arctic Circle and the deepest lake, Lake Baikal and the largest
remains very cold. As against this, major portion inland lake, the Caspian Sea are in Asia. A lake
of South-East Asia borders the Equator and which has no outlet to the sea is called an inland

lake.
Africa
Africa is the world’s second E U R O P E U K R A I N E MEDITERRANEAN SEA
BAY OF BISCAY ROMANIA Alexandria JORDAN
F R A N C E I Suez Canal
largest continent by both land Corsica T A L BULGARIA Cairo Suez
SAUDI
area and population. The PORTUGAL S P A I N Balearic Is Sardinia Y T U R K E Y A Zone of intensive ARABIA
agriculture
Equator runs through Africa Colon-Gibraltar Strait of Gibraltar Ceuta (SP.) ALGIERS Bejaia Annaba Sicily Y B WESTERN DESERT RED SEA
Tangier
Constantine
Melilla Oran
Madeira Is Tetouan (SP.) Sidi-Bel-Abbes TUNIS MALTA
(PORTUGAL) RABAT Fes Sfax Crete CYPRUS I E G Y P T
in the middle of the conti- Casablanca Meknes Laghouat Touggourt Al Khums Al Bayda Tubruq S E A L Aswan
TUNISIA
Safi
MOROCCO
Ghardaia
Marrakech Bechar Ouargla TRIPOLI Misratah Benghazi Alexandria Port Said N
CAIRO
nent. Around one third of Canary Is Agadir El Golea Ghadamis Maradah Al Jaghbub Giza Al Faiyum 0 km 250 Toshka Lake Nasser
Suez
(SPAIN)
EL AAIUN A L G E R I A L I B Y A Siwah Minya ZONE OF INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE
Africa is located in the Es Semara Reggane In Salah Awbari Murzuq Qasr al Farafirah Mut Asyut Nile Qina R S A U D I
Adrar
Al Ghurdaqah
Sabha
Southern Hemisphere. Africa WESTERN SAHARA Bir Morgrein Djanet Ghat Al Qatrun Al Khufrah E G Y P T E D U.A.E.
Aswan
Al Jawf
Zouerat
Tichla Fderik Taoudenni Tamanrasset Al Uwaynat A R A B I A
makes up about 20% of the Nouadhibou Atar Djado Madama Seguedine Zouar Wadi Halfa S
M A U R I TA N I A Iferouane Dongola Port Sudan OMAN
Suakin
Araouane Bilma Faya E
M A L I
world’s total land area. The NOUAKCHOTT Kiffa Oualata Tombouctou Agadez Ounianga Kebir Ed Debba Ed Damer Atbara A Farasan Is E N
Rosso
St-Louis Kaedi Nema Gao N I G E R C H A D S U D A N Atbara ERITREA E M
Omdurman
Indian Ocean, the Atlantic DAKAR GAMBIA Kayes Mopti NIAMEY Tahoua Zinder Nguigmi Lake Chad El Fasher KHARTOUM Kassala ASMARA Ed Y G u l f o f A d e n Aden-Mumbai
SENEGAL
Socotra
Maradi
Adwa
(YEMEN)
BANJUL Segou Abeche El Geneina Wad Medani Blue Nile Lake Tana DJIBOUTI Assab
GUINEA- BAMAKO Sokoto Kano Kukawa NDJAMENA Nyala El Obeid
Ocean, the Mediterranean BISSAU G U I N E A Koudougou OUAGADOUGOU Zaria Bauchi Birao El Muglad White Nile Dese DJIBOUTI Berbera
BISSAU
Labe
Maiduguri
Kandi
Bobo-
Kaduna
Dioulasso
CONAKRY SIERRA Kankan I V O R Y Tamale BENIN N I G E R I A Garoua Sarh Malakal ADDIS ABABA Dire Dawa Harer Hargeysa Garoowe
Sea and the Red Sea all FREETOWN LEONE Bouake Ogbomosho ABUJA Benue Moundou CENTRAL Wau Akobo E T H I O P I A Eyl
C O A S T
Bo
Ibadan
GHANA TOGO
Imi
AFRICAN
Lagos
Robertsport LIBERIA Kumasi LOME PORTO- Bouar REPUBLIC Yalinga S O U T H Maji Ginir Shibeli
ACCRA
S U D A N
surround Africa, to the east, MONROVIA YAMOUSSOUKRO Takoradi Sekondi NOVO Port Enugu CAMEROON Sibut Bambari Obo JUBA Mega Negele Hobyo
Greenville
Abidjan
Douala
Niangara
Harper Harcourt BANGUI Bondo Arua Baydhabo
MALABO
Bioko YAOUNDE Lisala Isiro Gulu
west and north respectively. SAOTOME & EQUATORIAL Ouesso Ubangi Buta UGANDA K E N Y A Marka MOGADISHU
Principe
GUINEA
PRINCIPE Kisangani KAMPALA Kisumu Meru
SAO TOME LIBREVILLECONGO Mbandaka Lake Kismaayo
Owando Ubundu Masaka Victoria Nakuru
The climate of Africa consists Annobon Port-Gentil GABON Franceville Congo Monkoto Lomela Bukavu RWANDA NAIROBI Lamu Zanzibar-Mumbai
KIGALI
BUJUMBURA
BRAZZAVILLE D E M . REP. OF BURUNDI Arusha
Pemba INDIAN
of hot desert in the north and Pointe-Noire KINSHASA C O N G O DODOMA Mombasa Zanzibar-Singapore Amirantes
Tanga
Cabinda
Kikwit
Kananga Kabalo Kalemie Tabora Zanzibar
Uige Mbuji-Mayi T A N Z A N I A Dar es SalaamOCEAN
jungle of Savannahs in the Ascension I Luvua Moba Mbeya Mafia
Matadi Kwango
(U.K.)
S O U T H LUANDA Kamina Bukama Lindi Aldabra Is Cape Town-Mumbai Cerf Is
Malanje
middle and south. Africa Sumbe A N G O L A Likasi Songea MORONI
Lobito Huambo Lubumbashi Mansa M A L A W I Pemba COMOROS
Benguela
Mayotte
Chingola
Ndola
hosts a large amount of A T L A N T I C Lubango Menongue Z A M B I A Kabwe LILONGWE Nacala (FRANCE)
St. Helena Namibe Mongu LUSAKA Zomba Nampula
(U.K.) Tombua Cunene Senanga Mazabuka Tete Blantyre Mahajanga
biological diversity and is O C E A N Freetown-Cape Town Ondangwa HARARE Quelimane Ste Marie I
ZIMBABWE
Opuwo Victoria Falls Gweru Chinde ANTANANARIVO
Toamasina
Beira
home to more megafauna N A M I B I A Maun Bulawayo Sofala PORT LOUIS
MAURITIUS
Europa
Swakopmund Okahandja BOTSWANA Beitbridge (FRANCE) Fianarantsoa Reunion
(FRANCE)
Walvis Bay WINDHOEK Mahalapye Toliara Ihosy
(large animals) than any- Rehoboth GABORONE Pietersburg Inhambane
Gibeon PRETORIA MBABANE Ambovombe Tolanaro Cape Town-Maurittus
MAPUTO
where else in the world. Dakar-Cape Town Keetmanshoop Johannesburg SWAZILAND
Vaal
Kimberley
Port Nolloth Orange BLOEMFONTEIN LESOTHO
Examples of these animals Bitterfontein S O U T H MASERU Durban
New York-Cape Town
A F R I C A Umtata
East Landon
include elephants, hippopot- Buenos Aires-Cape Town Worcester Mossel Bay Port Elizabeth
Cape of Good Hope
CAPE TOWN
amuses, rhinoceroses, and
Tristan da Cunha
(U.K.)
giraffes.
Africa has the youngest population of all conti- linguistically diverse, with an estimated more
nents, with a median age of only 19.5 years. This than two thousand languages spoken. The largest
has mainly been a result of high population city in Africa is Lagos.
growth over the past 40 years. Africa is extremely
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