individual countries, as well as Western Sahara, a member state of the African Union whose statehood is disputed by. Africa accounts for just over 14% of the world's human population. It also contains the Nile River system, the world's longest, and the massive Sahara Desert, the world's...
Atlantic Ocean, Atlas Mountains, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Aqaba, Gulf of Guinea, Gulf of Suez, Indian Ocean, Lake Chad, Lake Kariba, Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Libyan Desert, Mediterranean Sea, Mozambique Channel, Nile River, Red Sea and Strait of Gibraltar. ...
White Nile - 2,300 mi (3,700 km) Shebelle River - 1,686 mi (2,714 km) Zambezi River - 1,599 mi (2,574 km) Orange River - 1,511 mi (2,432 km) Ubangi-Uele - 1,410 mi (2,270 km) Kasai River - 1,338 mi (2,153 km) Lualaba River - 1,118 mi (1,800 km) Okavang...
The Nile is the only major river that successfully crosses the desert. Numerous rivers drain the central portion of Africa just south of the Sahara.Click on a country to go to a more detailed map of that country. Copyright information: The images on this page were composed by Brad Cole ...
marginal-basin setting—anenvironmentsimilar to that of the present southwesternPacific Ocean. Rocks were accreted onto the ancient African continent, the margin of which was then near the presentNile River, bysubductionprocesses identical to those observed today. (Subduction involves the descent of the...
(now called Ḥarāṭīn) in theSaharaby at least 4000bce—i.e., more or less contemporary with similar developments in the Nile valley. The desiccation of the Sahara and the evolution of its present desert between about 8000 and 2000bcemust have occasioned an outflowing of population in...
Map of the Nile river7. Highest Mountain: Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Mount Kilimanjaro has three volcanic cones and the highest volcanic cone of them is called 'Kibo'. The highest peak is called 'Uhuru Peak' with 5,895 m/ 19,340 ft. The mountain is located in the Tanzanian ...
But the 2014 multispectral images are by far the best tools for studying this part of the map: they clearly reveal named cities, mountain chains, and the full extent of the southern part of the Nile river system, which reaches to the southeastern part of the continent (Fig. 5.1).These ...
7. Luxor (Egypt)[SEE MAP] kayugee / Flickr The ancient city of Luxor in Egypt is divided into halves by the Nile River. On the East Bank, you’ll find the famed Luxor Temple as well as unique museums like the Luxor Museum and the Mummification Museum. Across the Nile on the West ...
The Nile river, which runs through the length of the continent, is at 6,650 kilometers (4,132 miles) by far the longest river on the African continent and also the longest in the world. The Nile is a confluence of the White Nile which rises at Lake Victoria along with the Blue Nile...