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Egypt is bordered by the Gaza Strip, Israel, Libya, and Sudan. The country occupies an area of 1 million sq. km, almost twice the size of France.

Cairo is the capital city and the largest city. Other major cities are Alexandria, the main port, and Giza, third largest city and the location of the Giza Pyramids.

The Upper Nile River is the life-sustaining artery of Egypt. The Suez Canal, completed in 1869, is an important water-way connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Algeria, Libya, Somalia

Asia is the biggest continent, being half as big again as Africa, which in turn, is bigger than North or South America and three times bigger than Europe.

In 2016, Africa had 1.2 billion people which was four times less than Asia, the most populous continent. Africa, though, had nearly twice as many people as the third most populous continent - Europe. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Biggest in both area and population., Third biggest in area. Most populous continent., Biggest in area. Fourth biggest in population.

Whilst Lagos is the largest city in Nigeria, it is not the capital. Abuja became the Nigerian capital in 1991. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

South Africa, Burundi, Egypt

The Orange River flows for 2200 kilometres or 1367 miles from where it starts in the Drakensberg Mountains in Lesotho across South Africa to where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean. The river forms part of the international border between South Africa and Lesotho and also between South Africa and Namibia. It was named the Orange River by the Dutch settlers after the name of their royal family, the House of Orange. It is also called the Gariep or "great river" by the local people in the area.

Canoe and rafting trips down the Orange River are very popular holiday activities.
Difficulty: Easy.

 

Blue, Pink, Red

Malawi is one of the more than 45 countries that make up the continent of Africa. Other countries in Africa include Ghana, Egypt and Senegal.

Tanzania is home of the famous Mount Kilimanjaro. Mexico is in America, while Russia and Burma are located in Asia. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Mexico, Burma, Russia

The Nile is in fact generally accepted as the longest river in the world (though some geographers claim that the Amazon may be longer). Its longest branch (called the White Nile) flows from Lake Victoria (which is shared by Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania), while its other substantial branch, the Blue Nile, begins in Lake Tana, Ethiopia. The two tributaries join in Khartoum, Sudan, and the great river goes into the Mediterranean through Egypt. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

The Amazon, The Niger, The Ganges

The city of Algiers is the second biggest in North Africa behind Casablanca, Morocco. It has a population of approximately two million. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Damascus, Rabat, Tripoli

Close to the South African border, Gaborone is a city of just over a quarter of a million inhabitants. The river Notwane runs through the city and it sits nicely between the Kgale and Oodi hills to give some stunning viewpoints and a flourishing world of wild animals. Difficulty: Average.

 

Delhi, Johannesburg, Ulan Bator

Egypt is in northeast Africa. Its northern coast is on the Mediterranean Sea. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

America, Australia, Europe

Timbuktu is commonly used to describe a faraway and distant place, but the city actually exists in the country of Mali. Timbuktu was declared a World Heritage Site in 1988. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Seychelles, Mauritius, Lesotho

Table Mountain was so named by the early Dutch settlers because of its flat top. It overlooks the city of Cape Town and is 1084.6 metres or 3558 feet high. The mountain has been declared one of the "seven wonders of nature". If you want to go to the top of Table Mountain, you can do so on foot and climb one of the many trails or, if you are not feeling that energetic, you can take the easy way and ride a cable car to the top.

Table Mountain has its own tablecloth. This is the name given to the layer of fluffy, white cloud which sometimes comes down and lies across the top of the mountain on sunny days. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Chair Mountain, Desk Mountain, Cupboard Mountain

One thing to remember is that the present-day nation of Egypt is NOT the same thing as the ancient civilization of Egypt. Ancient Egypt was very centered around the Nile River, while the modern nation covers a much wider area east-to-west. Along the same lines, at its height in the fifteenth century BCE, ancient Egypt extended up the Nile into present-day Sudan. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Libya, Iraq, Congo

Standing at 3003 m, or 9852 ft, Tahat can be found in the Ahaggar mountain range. The Ahaggar mountain range can be found in the central Saharan area with the larger Atlas mountain range south of Algeria. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Mount Ahaggar, Mount McKinlay, Mount Snowdon

Botswana is predominately flat and has desert in the south west. The highest point can be found in the Tsodilo Hills with no peak any higher than 1,489 m. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Limpopo Range, Shashe Delta, Kgalagadi

The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world, being as big as China or America.
The Kalahari Desert and the Namib Desert are both in southern Africa and cover parts of Botswana, South Africa, Namibia; the Namib also extends north into Angola. The Namib Desert is unusual in that the desert goes right up to the Atlantic Ocean for 2000 kilometres on the west coast of Namibia and Angola to the north and South Africa to the south.

The Mojave Desert is in the United States.
Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Sahara, Namib, Kalahari

Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake, with a surface area of approximately 68800 square kilometres. One of the African Great Lakes, it is the world's second largest freshwater lake. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Lake Elizabeth, Lake Anne, Lake Mary

South Africa used to be made up of four separate colonies which each had their own capital. When it unified to become the Union of South Africa in 1910, it was decided to name three cities as capitals to avoid arguments about which one city should be the capital. Pretoria is the administrative capital and is home to many government building and foreign embassies. The city is famous for its beautiful jacaranda trees which carpet the city in a layer of purple when they are in flower.

Cape Town is the legislative capital and is the seat of Parliament where the country's laws are made and passed. It is the second largest city in South Africa after Johannesburg and began life as a trading post for Dutch sailors in 1652. Bloemfontein, whose name means "flower fountain" in Afrikaans, is the judicial capital where the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa is housed. It is also the capital of the Free State Province. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Durban, Cairo, London

Malawi follows a multiparty democratic system. This means that many parties can nominate a representative, who, to win, must be chosen by the majority of the people.

Most countries in the world use this type of government as well. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Dictatorship, Monarchy, Empire

Rising 5,885 meters (19,308 feet), Kilimanjaro is located in Tanzania. It is very near the Kenyan border, and about 180 miles (300 km) from the Indian Ocean. Though it is technically an extinct volcano, it has several cracks at the summit called fumaroles that emit volcanic gases. Geologists do not expect Kilimanjaro to erupt, but the possibility does exist.

Everest, Denali, and Puncak Jaya are the tallest mountains in Asia, North America, and Oceania, respectively.
Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Puncak Jaya, Everest, Denali

The land is made up mostly of high plateau and desert, mountains, and coastal plains. However, there is just under 1000km of coastline in the north along the Mediterranean Sea. Difficulty: Hard.

 

2,381 km², 740 km², 381,740 km²

All the options are rivers in Botswana, however, the Okavango is the longest at 1,000 miles (1,600 km). It starts in central Angola and passes thorough southern Angola and Namibia. It empties into the Okavango Swamp, a large wetland north of Lake Ngami in northern Botswana. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Molopo River, Cuando River, Khwai River

Algeria is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea and Tunisia in the northeast, by Libya in the east, by Morocco in the west, by Western Sahara, Mauritania, and Mali in the southwest and by Niger in the southeast.

It is the largest country in Africa after South Sudan, and separated from Sudan in 2011. It has a land area of nearly 2.4 million sq. km, four times the size of France.

About 90% of its population live in the northern coastal region, because its southern part is covered by the Sahara Desert. Official languages are Arabic and French. The capital and the largest city is Algiers. Difficulty: Average.

 

Tunisia, Morocco, Libya

Ras ben Sakka in Tunisia is the northernmost point of the African mainland. Swaziland, Botswana and Mozambique are all located in the southern part of the African continent. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Swaziland, Botswana, Mozambique

Since South Africa became a republic in 1961 their currency has been the rand. It takes its name from the Afrikaans word "rand" which means ridge. This name was chosen because gold mining plays a very important part in the South African economy and most of the country's gold deposits are found along the Witwatersrand (White Water Ridge in Afrikaans).

The rand is a decimal currency and is divided into 100 cents.
Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Dollar, Pound, Pula

Independence Day is also known as Republic Day in Malawi, and it commemorates the day the British granted the Malawians independence.

The most popular language in Malawi is Chichewa, which is also the official language of the nation. Difficulty: Hard.

 

France, Portugal, Spain

Sudan used to be the largest African nation until it was divided into two separate countries. Algeria is now the largest country in Africa. Difficulty: Hard.

 

It is the smallest African country, It is the eighth-largest African country, It is the twelfth-largest African country

The Pula came into circulation in 1976 replacing the South African Rand. In the native language, Pula means "rain" and is seen as precious as Botswana rarely gets any rain. The currency comes in the form of the 5, 10, 25 and 50 thebe and 1, 2 and 5 Pula as coins, and 10, 20, 50 and 100 Pula in notes. 100 Pula is equivalent to US$16-$17 or £8.50 in Sterling. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Rand, Dollar, Pfennig

Tutankhamun was the 'boy king'. Ramses the second was pharaoh and may have been around during the time of Moses. Nefertiti was queen of Egypt around 1300 B.C. King Menes founded the united Egypt in 3110 B.C. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ramses the second

Rwanda is a relatively small landlocked, hilly country in Central Africa. It is bordered by four countries: Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Uganda.

It has an area of 26,338 sq. km. Kigali is the capital and largest city. Spoken languages are Kinyarwanda (official language of Rwanda), English and French.

Rwandan genocide took place between 7 April and 15 July 1994, where an estimated half a million to one million of Tutsi, Twa and moderate Hutus, were killed by the Hutus. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Niger, Burundi, Djibouti

Mount Kenya is located, unsurprisingly, in the country of Kenya. K2, Kangchenjunga and Lhotse are all located in Asia, not Africa. Difficulty: Hard.

 

K2, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse

To avoid arguments and to include as many of the different groups as possible, South Africa has eleven official languages. They are English, Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu. Most people in the country can speak at least two languages. So to say hello to someone you could say either Dumela, Sawubona, Bhota, Lotjhani, Ndaa, Avuxeni, Hallo as well as Hello.

The variety of different groups which make up South Africa have led to the country being nicknamed "The Rainbow Nation". Difficulty: Easy.

 

One, Two, None

Among the various major industries of Malawi are sugar, cement, consumer goods, and of course, tobacco and tea.

The Boston Tea Party took place in the United States, in 1773. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Chocolate, Clothes, Spices

In addition to being a remarkable geographic feature (at over 9,000,000 square kilometers, it is nearly as big as the United States or China), the Sahara effectively divides the continent, both ethnically and culturally. The regions along the northern coast, including much of Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt, have historically had a much greater relationship with both Europe and the Middle East. South of the Sahara more distinct cultures have developed. Though "Sub-Saharan Africa" has indeed been influenced by both European colonists and the Arab world, this influence has been far less profound than in the area around the Mediterranean Sea. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Gobi, Mojave, Judean

To the northeast is Tunisia, Libya to the east, Niger to the southeast, Mali and Mauritania to the southwest and Morocco to the west. There is also a small border with the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Western Sahara. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Three, Two, Five

Most experts agree that Tutankhamen, or King Tut was close to 18 or 19 when he died. It was thought that he may have been murdered because of religion and politics, but recent scientific testing has suggested that this is probably not the case. Over 5,000 items were found in his tomb. Difficulty: Hard.

 

10, 50, around 30

South Africa is bordered by Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), and Zimbabwe and it surrounds the small Kingdom of Lesotho.

It has a land area of 1,221,000 sq. km. The administrative capital is Pretoria; the legislative capital is Cape Town and the judicial capital is Bloemfontein. The largest city is Johannesburg.

Kruger National Park is a large game reserve in the north-east of South Africa, covering an area of 19,485 sq. km (7,523 sq. mi). Table Mountain is the famous landmark overlooking Cape Town. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia

The Zambezi River is the fourth longest river in Africa. It is the biggest river flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. The river flows through Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
In the local Lozi language the falls are called Mosi-oa-Tunya, or "The Smoke that Thunders". These falls are the world's largest, based on its width of 1,708 metres and height of 108 metres making the falls the world's largest expanse of falling water.
Dr Livingstone was believed to be the first European to see the falls in 1855. Difficulty: Easy.

 

Zaire, Nile, Niger

Madagascar is located off the coast of southeastern Africa, and became independent in 1960.
The 2005 animated comedy film "Madagascar" is also set in the island country. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Greenland, Iceland, Dominica

The Drakensberg mountains, whose name means Dragon's Mountains in Afrikaans, runs for over 1000 kilometres or just over 621 miles through South Africa. They form part of the international border with Lesotho. The Zulu name for the Drakensberg is "uKhahlamba" which means "barrier of spears".

The mountains are a very popular holiday destination for both hikers and nature lovers. They form part of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg National Park and the Sehlathebe National Park in Lesotho which were declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2000. Mafadi, the highest peak, is on the border between Lesotho and South Africa and is 3450 metres or 11320 feet in height. Difficulty: Very Easy.

 

Himalyas, Alps, Rockies

In 2007, there were seven coins in circulation ranging from the quarter dinar to 100 dinar. In addition there were six bank notes: 5, 10, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 dinars. Difficulty: Hard.

 

Rupee, Rand, Franc