33 50 1 15 52 31 40 20 23 22 42 26 13 30 5 21 3 37 36 7 49 39 16 19 12 27 9 8 11 COUNTRIES OF AFRICA 01 Algeria 02 Angola 03 Benin 04 Botswana 05 Burkina Faso 06 Burundi 07 Cameroon 08 Central African Republic 09 Chad 10 Comoros 11 Congo Dem Rep of the 12 Congo Republic of the 13 Côte d’Ivoire 14 Djibouti 15 Egypt 16 Equatorial Guinea 17 Eritrea 18 Ethiopia 19 Gabon 20 Gambia 21 Ghana 22 Guinea 23 Guinea-Bissau 24 Kenya 25 Lesotho 26 Liberia 27 Libya Full name is the Democratic Republic of the Congo formerly Zaire Annexed by Morocco Islands of Cape Verde Mauritius Réunion off map 28 Madagascar 29 Malawi 30 Mali 31 Mauritania 32 Mayotte France 33 Morocco 34 Mozambique 35 Namibia 36 Niger 37 Nigeria 38 Rwanda 39 Sao Tome and Principe 40 Senegal 41 Seychelles 42 Sierra Leone 43 Somalia 44 South Africa 45 South Sudan 46 Sudan 47 Swaziland 48 Tanzania 49 Togo 50 Tunisia 51 Uganda 52 Western Sahara 53 Zambia 54 Zimbabwe 2 2 35 4 54 44 47 25 Alabaster sphinx at Memphis Egypt Roger Wood Corbis 46 45 38 6 51 24 48 29 53 34 17 18 14 43 41 10 32 28 Giraffe Kenya Royalty-Free Corbis
AFRICA L andofSplendo r Africa’s splendor is seen in its beautiful landscapes its amazing animal life and its diverse human culture The African continent is the home of more than 800 million people living in more than 50 countries Africa is the second largest continent on Earth after Asia Africa’s long coastline is shaped by the Atlantic and Indian oceans and the Mediterranean and Red seas In the north of the continent lies the Sahara It is the world’s largest desert and covers almost all of northern Africa Located in southwestern Africa are two other major deserts the Kalahari and the Namib D I D YO U K N O W is ine of Africa S u r p r i s i n g l y t h e c o a s t l ine of Europe shorter than the coastl lest continent This the second smal large inlets because Africa has few bays or gulfs features that add to length by causing detours coastal away from a straight coastl ine is The African continent has two major rivers the Nile and the Congo The Nile is the longest river in the world At the southern end of the Nile is Lake Victoria Africa’s largest lake Not far to the southeast of Lake Victoria is Mount Kilimanjaro the highest point in Africa One of the world’s major waterfalls Victoria Falls is also in Africa Africa is known for its wildlife There are elephants rhinoceroses hippopotamuses lions and leopards Other animals include antelope gazelles giraffes baboons gorillas hyenas and chimpanzees Most of these animals live in Africa’s open grasslands or in tropical rainforests S H EA R C H LIG countries T The people of Africa belong to hundreds of ethnic groups Each group has its own language traditions religion arts and history During its political history Africa has been the site of Egyptian dynasties African kingdoms European colonies and independent Find and correct the error in the following sentence Africa is one of the smallest continents LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES ALGERIA CONGO SOUTH AFRICA Answer Africa is one of the largestcontinents 7
S EA R C H LIG H T How did the Congo get its name Women gather firewood in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which is also called Congo Kinshasa More than two-thirds of the people live in small towns and villages Gallo Images Corbis D I D YO U K N O W is one of the The Congo River great rivers of the world Only the Amazon River in South America larger area than the drains a Congo River does 8
CONGO T w o Countries OneNam e As long as 25,000 years ago people began to live in the forests of the Congo River basin in west-central Africa They gathered food from the forests and dug up roots to eat Today the Congo basin contains two countries separated by the Congo River Both of the countries are called Congo To tell them apart they are sometimes referred to by the names of their capital cities One of the countries is called Congo Brazzaville and the other is Congo Kinshasa Congo Brazzaville is officially known as the Republic of the Congo Congo Kinshasa is Congo Brazzaville Congo Kinshasa officially called the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Congo region got its name from the Kongo or Bakongo one of the main groups of people who live there These people have been in the area for centuries from the time when the Congo was ruled by various kingdoms The Portuguese arrived in the kingdom called Kongo in 1483 At first the newcomers were friendly to the people of the kingdom But by the 1530s the Portuguese were sending the Kongolese away as slaves By the late 1800s other European countries had become interested in the Congo region They valued the Congo River as a route for trade between the west coast of Africa and the interior part of the continent The French and the Belgians took over different parts of the Congo The local people didn’t win their independence until 1960 Though free each of the two Congos faced many problems Both countries experienced periods of fierce internal fighting and struggles for power LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES GHANA GUINEA KAMPALA UGANDA Brazzaville Kinshasa have lived there for centuries Answer It was named for the Kongo or Bakongo people who 9
