Africa Geography & Travel Quiz

Algeria became Africa’s largest country by area after South Sudan’s independence.

Kilimanjaro stands in northeastern Tanzania near the Kenyan border.

The Okavango spreads into Botswana’s Kalahari sands instead of reaching the sea.

The Nile has shaped settlement and agriculture in Egypt for millennia.

The High Atlas rises south of Marrakech.

It continues into Kenya as the Maasai Mara ecosystem.

Zanzibar forms part of the United Republic of Tanzania.

The Indian Ocean washes Africa’s eastern shoreline.

Parliament sits in Cape Town; South Africa has three capital cities.

The Mozambique Channel separates Madagascar from Mozambique.

Uganda occupies much of Lake Victoria’s northern shoreline.

Windhoek is Namibia’s centrally located capital.

Addis Ababa is Ethiopia’s capital and hosts the African Union headquarters.

The Sahara covers much of North Africa.

The high Drakensberg forms much of Lesotho’s eastern boundary with South Africa.