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Africa Geography Facts

Tallest mountain - mount kilimanjaro, tanzania: 19,340 feet / 5895 meters. See

owest point in africa - basin assal in djibouti which lies at 515 feet (155m) under sea grade.

Colossalst desert in africa is - the sahara desert which spans roughly 3.5 million quadrilateral miles (9,000,000 quadrilateral kilometers). It stretches over north africa and produces up a immense chapter of a dozen countries.

Longest river in africa - the nile which is also the longest river in the world. It runs from uganda every the way to egypt for 4,132 miles (6650 km).

Giganticst basin in africa - basin victoria in east africa, bordering uganda, kenya and tanzania. The basin is the second enormousst in the world, at 26,560 square miles (68,800 square kilometres). It is the main source of the nile river.

Hugest island in africa - madagascar off the east shore of africa in the indian ocean is the bigst island in africa and the 4th bigst island in the world. Madagascar is meticulous over 1000 miles (1580 km) long and 350 miles (570 km) whole.

Hugest waterfall in africa - the victoria falls on the border of zambia and zimbabwe. The victoria falls are true over 1 mile comprehensive (1.7 km) and 355 feet (108 m) high. While the wet season over 500 million liters (19 million cubic feet) of water plummets over the sharpen into the zambezi river. The spray can be seen from over 30 miles away.

The equator - in africa, the equator runs with for almost 2500 miles, passing through 6 countries: gabon, congo, democratic republic of congo, uganda, kenya and somalia.