Many thing about AFRICA Continent
{.........Physiography................}
- The plants second largest contents includes 54 individual countries .
- Latitude : 35° S and 37° N
- Longitude: 50° E and 17° W
- Area : 30065000 sq km (2.4% of the world )
- Oceans and Seas : Indian ocean , Red sea , Atlantic ocean , Gulf of Guinea , Mediterranean sea .
- Straits : Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb , Straits of Gibraltar
- Islands : Madagascar , Cape Verde island , the Connors , Mauritius , Seychelles
- Plateaus : The entire content is a plateau . There types of palm tree are found in Africa viz Coconut plam , oil plam and date plam .
- Mountains : Atlas , Ethiopian highland , Mt Kenya, MtElgon , Mt Kilimanjaro , Drakenberg , Mt Cameroon, Mt Rouwenzori Katanga plateau , Jos plateau
- Lakes : , Nayasa , Mweru , Tanganyika , Edward , Tana , Nasser , Chad , Volta , Assal , Victoria
- Rivers : Nile , Zaire or Congo , Niger , Orange , Limpopo , Zambezi
- Deserts : Share , Sahel, Libyan , Arabian , Nubian , Namib , Kalahari
{........Finer Points..........} - Lake Vitoria is the largest lake of Africa , which I allocated between Uganda , Kenya and Tanzania . It is
Source to white Nile river .The equator pass through it - Nasser lake is a ma-made lake , which lies on Nile river and located between Egypt and Sudan
- Nile river is the longest river of the world and life line of Egypt
- The white Nile and the blue Nile meet at Khartoum (Sudan ) to from Nile
- South Sudan is 54 th an knew born country of Africa and it's capital is Zuba
- Congo river cuts equator twice
- The Zambezi river includes the Victoria fall , one the largest falls in the world .It makes the natural political boundary between Zambia and Zimbabwe
- The orange river forms the naturl boundary between south Africa and Namibia
- The Limpopo river cuts the Tropic of Capricorn and it separates south Africa from Botswana and Zimbabwe .
- The highest peak of Africa is Mt Kilimanjaro and is located in Tanzania .
- The three points where Africa almost touches Eurasia are Gibraltar , Suez and Bab-el-Mandeb
- The highest temperature in the world has been recorded at Al-Aziziyah (Libya) as 58° C making it hottest place in the world
{...........Socio-Cultural Aspects....} - The blacks , live in the equatorial and tropical region form 70% of the population
- Swahili is a famous language of Africa apart from French , English and other regional /tribal languages
- The pygmies of Zaire basin are very short on all over Africans
{..........Main Tribes.......} - Bushmen, Masai , Berbers , Zulu , Nubia , Dogon , Bemba , Afar , Amhara , Ibos etc .
{.........Economic Aspects .....} - African is rich in mineral deposits and these minerals are mostly found on the plateau , south of the equator . The minerals found in Africa are diamond , gold , copper , bauxite , platinum , iron ore , petroleum , manganese etc
- Cotton is the chief cash crop of Africa . Egypt and Sudan grow the best quality long staple cotton in the world .
- Ethiopia , Kenya are the leading producers of coffee . Oil plan is part of the natural vegetation and large quantities of plan oil is produced in the West African countries
{.....Leading Producers....} - Tea ~ Nigeria
- Wheat ~ South Africa
- Rubber ~ Liberia
- Gold ~ South Africa
- Copper ~ Zaire
- Phosphates ~ Morocco
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This is a gif format just upload it
Some politicians have played really bad politics on Africa otherwise the country has a huge potential
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