Total land area: 30,335,000 sq km
(11,712,434 sq miles)
Total population: 1 billion
Number of countries: 53
Large st country: Sudan
2,505,810 sq km
(967,493 sq miles)
Small est country: Seychelles
455 sq km (176 sq miles)
Large st country population:
Nigeria 151.2 million
Large st lake: Lake Victoria,
Kenya/Tanzania/Uganda
68,880 sq km
(26,560 sq miles)
Longe st river: Nile, Uganda/
Sudan/Egypt 6,695 km
(4,160 miles)
Highe st point: Kilimanjaro,
Tanzania 5,895 m (19,341 ft)
Major desert: Sahara Desert
Large st island: Madagascar
587,040 sq km
(226,656 sq miles)VICTORIA FALLS 3
In its long course from Zambia down to the Indian
Ocean, the Zambezi River plummets 108 m (354 ft)
at the Victoria Falls. This magnificent waterfall
creates so much noise and spray that locals call it
“the smoke that thunders”. The falls were officially
named after Queen Victoria, as they were first
discovered by a European (British explorer David
Livingstone) in 1855, during her reign.NORTH AFRICAN MARKETS 1
Markets like this one in Morocco are called
souks and are the bustling heart of every town
in North Africa. Here, farmers sell vegetables
and fruit, while traders sell a variety of items
from natural dyes, herbs and spices, and rolls of
cloth, to fine silver jewellery and hand-crafted
leather goods.NDEBELE STYLE 1
The Ndebele people of South Africa are renowned for
their distinctive sense of colour and pattern. Their
houses are brightly decorated with strong, geometric
shapes. The women are responsible for the upkeep of
their houses and they repaint the walls each spring.Paintings of
houses decorate
this Ndebele homeAFRICAFIND OUT MORE. Age of Empire 422–423 • Christianity 288 • Islam 290 • Local Religions 283 • Medieval Africa 394–395
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