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Facts to Remember-Africa
| Facts to Remember-Africa | |
|---|---|
| Land of Gold and Diamonds | South Africa |
| New capitals of Nigeria & Tanzania | Abuja, Dodoma |
| Clove Bowl of the World | Zanzibar & Pemba |
| Lake Nasser is on | River Nile |
| River boundary between S. Africa and Botswana | River Limpopo |
| Akosombo dam is on | River Volta |
| Largest waterfall in the world | Victoria Falls |
| Victoria falls are on | River Zambezi |
| Two countries of Africa that were never colonized | Ethiopia, Liberia |
| Kimberley is famous for | Diamond |
| Witwatersrand is famous for | Gold |
| African country with the best quality magnetite ore | Liberia |
| Pastoral tribe of Kenya | Masai |
| River Orange is a boundary between | S. Africa & Namibia |
| A new country carved out of Ethiopia during 1992 | Eritrea |
| Lourenco Marques was renamed as | Maputo |
| South African farmer of Dutch descent | Boer |
| Countries bordering Lake Victoria | Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda |
| Gate of Tears | Bab-el-Mandeb |
| A highly nutritious crop of Ethiopian highlands | Teff |
| Most tropical of all continents | Africa |
| Place of origin of Coffee | Ethiopia |
| A flightless bird of Kalahari desert | Ostrich |
| Eastern most terminus of Tanzara railway which begins from Katanga mineral belt | Dar-es-Salam |
| Country facing the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb | Djibouti |
| Country with maximum Hydroelectric power (HEP) potential in Africa | Zaire (Dem. Rep. of Congo) |
| Gold, loory, Slave and Grain coasts, arranged west to east | Grain, Ivory, Gold, Slave coast |
| He religion followed by many tribes in Africa which is based on love and respect of nature | Animism |
| The Victoria Fall was discovered by | David Livingston |
| The policy of segregating people on the basis of their race or their colour of skin | Apartheid |
| The famous Cobora Bassa Dam is on the river | Zambezi |
| The famous Kainji Dam is on the river | Niger |
| The river forming the boundary between Zambia and Zimbabwe | Zambezi |
| Seat of legislature of S. Africa | Cape Town |
| Natural region with the greatest biodiversity | Rain Forests |
| Judicial capital of South Africa | Bloemfontein |
| The temperate grassland of South Africa | High Veld |
| Countries which form the Horn of Africa | Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, Eruteria |
| Nubian desert lies in | Egypt |
| The only river that crosses the equator twice | River Zaire |
| Aborigines of upper Nile | River Zaire |
| Administrative capital of South Africa | Pretoria |
| Land of Oil Palm | Nigeria |
| The only river to cross the Tropic of Capricorn twice | Limpopo |
| The hot dry wind blowing in the South Eastern part of South Africa | Berg |
| The famous Copper Mines Of Zaire | Lubumbashi |
| The famous Copper and Cobalt Mines of Zaire-Zambia | Katanga |
| The Ngana, tropical disease of cattle in Africa is carried by | Tsetse fly |
| The Coal Mines of Zimbabwe | Wankee |
| The tribes who are the forests dwellers of the Congo basin | Pygmies |
| The Sirocco winds in Libya is known as | Gibli |
| The leading producer of mineral oils in Africa is | Nigeria |
| The largest producer of Sisal in Africa is | Tanzania |
| The Desert in the North East of Sudan | Nubian Desert |
| The South Africa town where Mahatma Gandhi, on being thrown out of the train, waved to fight racism | Pietermaritzburg |
| The Kalahari desert is situated between the rivers | Orange and Zambezi |
| The country having highest death rate and least life expectancy in world | Sierra Leone |
| A hot lacal wind blowing from Sahara to Mediterranean | Sirocco |
| The oldest surviving African language | Swahili |
| Most of Kalahari lies in | Botswana |
| Farmers of Egypt are also called | Fellahin |
| Three points where Africa almost ends | Gibraltar, Suez and Bab-el-Mandeb |
| Southernmost tip of Africa | Cape of Agulhas |
| The highest peak in Africa | Mt. Kilimanjaro |
| City of the confluence of Blue and White Nile | Kahrtoum |
| The hottest place in the worid | Al-Azizhiya, Libya |
| The three Maghreb Republics | Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia |
| Source of Blue Nile and White Nile | L. Tana, L. Victoria |
| The Little and the Great Bitter lakes are along | Suez Canal |
| A large geographically disadvantaged State | Zaire |
| The lowest point in Africa | Lake Assal, Djibouti |
| The nomadic herders of Sahara | Tuaregs |
| The main entrepot of Africa | Zanzibar |
| A large lake in East Africa not lying in the Great Rift Valley | Lake Victoria |
