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Benin is one of the smallest countries on the African continent and was a former French colony. Although a developing country and not widely known of, Benin welcomes a surprising number of tourists annually. Benin has...
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Zimbabwe is located in southern Africa and shares with Zambia one of the largest waterfalls in the world, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Victoria Falls. It is also considered one of the Seven Natural...
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Madagascar is an island east of Mozambique off the coast of south-east Africa. It is the largest island in Africa and has a unique wildlife ecosystem. An island that mixes Indonesian and African culture, and which in...
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Unfortunately, war has been present in Angola until relatively recently. A long and intense ware resulted in r gaining independence from Portugal in 1975. However, the country was again plunged into another war, this time a...
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Uganda is known as the "Pearl of Africa", a nickname Winston Churchill made famous in one of his books. Located in the central-eastern part of the African continent and primarily surrounded by Lake Victoria, it is...
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Côte d'Ivoire, also called Ivory Coast, is an African country in the midst of tourism development. With a population of almost 25 million inhabitants, it receives about 2 million tourists a year. Ivory Coast is a...
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Djibouti is located in the north-eastern part of Africa, bordering Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia and covers an area of more than 23,000 square kilometres. Because of the ethnic mix, influenced by the neighbouring countries, the national...
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Uganda in Africa is a haven for nature lovers filled with lush forests, towering peaks, crater lakes, nature reserves, and much more. Sighting mountain gorillas is one of the alluring things its rugged landscape has to...
Read more...Africa is a vast continent that spans across the northern and southern hemispheres of the globe. It is the second most populated continent after Asia, and it is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on the east by the Indian Ocean. The Mediterranean Sea separates it from the Europe in the north.
The northern and southern ends of the continent display a Mediterranean climate, characterized by warm summer, wet and mild winter, and rainy spring and autumn. In Central Africa, however, the predominant climate is equatorial, that is hot and steamy.
There are 54 countries in Africa. Nigeria is the most populated country with approximately 200 million inhabitants.
A large number of languages are spoken across the continent, but the most popular are Swahili, Oromo, Hausa and Amharic. Moreover, most of the continent professes traditional African religions.
Angola
Benin
Djibouti
Egypt
Ethiopia
Guinea
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Madagascar
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe