AFRICA GEOGRAPHY

ATLAS MOUNTAINS

• Runs through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia
• Stretches about 2500 kilometers
• Highest peak is Toubkal, in Morocco
• Highest point is over 13,000 feet high
• Are home to many castles

SAHARA

• Largest hot desert in the world
• Located in Northern Africa
• Worlds hottest desert
• It has almost as big of an area as the United States
• Is 9,400,000 square kilometers

NILE RIVER

• Worlds longest river
• Has two rivers, the white Nile and blue Nile that converge
• Therefore, the Nile has two sources, one in lake Victoria and one in Ethiopia
• The Nile is dammed by the Aswan High Dam near the city of Aswan, Egypt
• Lake Nasser is created by the Aswan High Dam

CONGO RIVER

• Empties the Congo rain forest
• Worlds deepest river
• 2900 miles long
• Used to be called the Zaire river
• Africa's second longest river

NAMIB DESERT

• Merges with the Kalahari in the South
• Extends for 1200 miles
• Reaches inland 100 miles from the shore
• Located in mostly Angola
• Name means a place where there is nothing

HORN OF AFRICA

• Mostly the country of Somalia
• Has an arid, desert like climate
• A training ground for terrorists
• Also called the Somalian peninsula
• Many pirates are known for coming from this region

MOUNT KILIMANJARO

• Tallest mountain in Africa
• Extinct volcano
• 19,341 feet tall
• Located in Tanzania

ETHIOPIAN PLATEAU

• Source of the blue Nile
• Also called Ethiopian highlands
• Located mostly on the Horn of Africa and further inland
• Covers much of Ethiopia