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Published on Nov 22, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

HORN OF AFRICA

  • inhabited by roughly 100 million people
  • It covers approximately 2,000,000 km²
  • lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden
  • containing the countries of Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia

GREAT RIFT VALLEY

  • over 5000 km long
  • stretching from Syria to Mozambique
  • separates into two branches, the eastern rift and the western rift.
  • width varies from 30 to 100 kilometres

SAHARA DESERT

  • cover over 3.6 million square miles.
  • eleven countries have parts of the Sahara Desert within their borders
  • home to just two million
  • driest part of the Sahara, the south Libyan desert,
Photo by The Ridg

LAKE VICTORIA

  • It is Africa's largest lake
  • surface area of 26,600 square miles
  • This body of water is named after Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
  • about 400,000 years old

NAMIB DESERT

  • The name "Namib" is of Nama origin and means vast
  • oldest desert in the world
  • less than 10 mm of rain
  • Temperature difference daily
Photo by Flavia_FF

MT. KILIMANJARO

  • tallest mountain on the African continent
  • has three volcanic cones, Mawenzi, Shira and Kibo
  • highest free-standing mountain in the world.
  • Kibo, the highest peak
Photo by QuakeUp!