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- Where are the highest peaks in Africa?
- What is Africa's largest lake?
- What is the biggest rock in Africa?
- How many countries are in Africa?
- What is the name of the highest mountain in West Africa?
- Does it snow in Africa?
- What ocean does Africa touch?
- What is the biggest desert in Africa?
- What is the highest peak of Mt Kenya?
- What is the highest mountain in South Africa called?
Where are the highest peaks in Africa?
Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. Located in Tanzania, it reaches the highest summit at 5,895 meters. This highest peak is the Kibo, one of Kilimanjaro's volcanic cones, with Mawenzi and Shira. Mount Kenya is the second-highest mountain on the African continent, with a height of 5,199 meters.
What is Africa's largest lake?
Lake Victoria, also called Victoria Nyanza, largest lake in Africa and chief reservoir of the Nile, lying mainly in Tanzania and Uganda but bordering on Kenya. Its area is 26,828 square miles (69,484 square km). Among the freshwater lakes of the world, it is exceeded in size only by Lake Superior in North America.
What is the biggest rock in Africa?
This granite mountain is the largest rock in Africa and the second-largest monolith in the world. At more than 3,000 feet (around 800 meters) tall, Sibebe Rock is the largest granite pluton in the world and the second-largest monolithic rock.
How many countries are in Africa?
There are 54 countries in Africa today, according to the United Nations. The full list is shown in the table below, with current population and subregion (based on the United Nations official statistics).
What is the name of the highest mountain in West Africa?
Bintumani Peak on Loma Mountain (1947 m) is the highest peak west in West Africa, west of Mount Cameroon (Cole 1968).
Does it snow in Africa?
Snow is an almost annual occurrence on some of the mountains of South Africa, including those of the Cedarberg and around Ceres in the South-Western Cape, and on the Drakensberg in Natal and Lesotho.
What ocean does Africa touch?
Africa is touched by two oceans named Indian Ocean from the southeast and Atlantic Ocean from the west. Apart from that, Africa has Mediterranean Sea to its North, Red Sea and Suez Canal to its northeast.
What is the biggest desert in Africa?
The Sahara is the world's largest desert; it extends across most of the northern part of Africa. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
What is the highest peak of Mt Kenya?
those of the glaciers of Mount Kenya and of Kilimanjaro diminished rapidly. …by the Nyeri saddle to Mount Kenya, the country's highest peak, at 17,058 feet (5,199 metres).
What is the highest mountain in South Africa called?
Thabana Ntlenyana, also called Thadentsonyane, Thabantshonyana, or Mount Ntlenyana, mountain peak (11,424 feet [3,482 m]) in the Drakensberg and the highest in Africa south of Kilimanjaro.
