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Geography of Africa
Test your knowledge about geography of Africa.
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1. Which Scottish missionary and explorer, is believed to have been the first European to view the Victoria Falls in 1855?
David Livingstone
Henry Stanley
John Cabot
Francis Drake
2. What country was created after referendum in Sudan in 2011?
Eritrea
North Sudan
South Sudan
Burundi
3. Nubia is a region along what river in Africa?
Zambezi
Niger
Nile
Congo
4. What country colonized Cameroon from 1884 to 1916, calling it Kamerun?
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Netherlands
5. What was the only color that appeared on the former flag of Libya from 1977 to 2011?
Blue
White
Red
Green
6. What is the former name of Benin?
Rhodesia
Swaziland
Dahomey
Upper Volta
7. From which country Gabon gained its independence in 1960?
Belgium
Italy
France
United Kingdom
8. What is the second largest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro?
Elgon
Rwenzori
Atlas
Kenya
9. There are three capital cities of South Africa. Which city is not the capital?
Cape Town
Bloemfontein
Pretoria
Johannesburg
10. Victoria Falls are located on the border between what two countries?
Botswana and Namibia
Zambia and Zimbabwe
South Africa and Mozambique
Angola and DR Congo
11. Sibebe is the second-largest monolith in the world located near the capital city Mbabane. Which country is this?
Rwanda
Lesotho
Eswatini
Zambia
12. Which ecosystem does not exist in Africa?
Savanna
Taiga
Steppe
Tropical rainforest
13. Djibouti have a coastline along what body of water?
Indian ocean
Red sea
Atlantic ocean
Mediterranean sea
14. Which African country was known as Upper Volta until 1984?
Benin
Ethiopia
Burkina Faso
Mauritania
15. From which country Botswana gained its independence in 1966?
Belgium
Spain
France
United Kingdom
16. What is official language in Benin?
Spanish
Italian
English
French
17. Which two rivers merge in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, and form the Nile River?
White and Blue Nile
Blue and Green Nile
Green and Yellow Nile
Yellow and White Nile
18. What country in Africa has the highest population?
Ethiopia
Egypt
Nigeria
South Africa
19. Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous region of which country?
Tanzania
Kenya
South Africa
Mozambique
20. What lake in Africa is the world's second oldest and second deepest freshwater lake?
Victoria
Kivu
Tanganyika
Malawi
21. In what part of Africa mainly Bushmen, also known as San people live?
Northern Africa
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Southern Africa
22. Which is the largest lake in Africa?
Volta
Tanganyika
Victoria
Malawi
23. Which country controlled Eritrea between 1882–1936?
Spain
France
Germany
Italy
24. Rhodesia was an unrecognized state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to which modern country?
Zambia
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Mozambique
25. What river flows along Botswana's southern border before emptying into the Indian Ocean?
Niger
Zambezi
Limpopo
Congo
26. Which explorer first reached the Cape of Good Hope in 1488?
Vasco da Gama
Bartolomeu Dias
Henry the Navigator
Ferdinand Magellan
27. What ethnic group of Tanzania and Kenya live a semi-nomadic life based on cattle herding?
Berber
Zulu
Bushmen
Maasai
28. What country which completely surrounds Lesotho?
Namibia
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Botswana
29. From which European country Algeria gained its independence in 1962?
France
United Kingdom
Spain
Belgium
30. The Victoria lake's area is divided among three countries. Which country is not one of them?
Tanzania
Uganda
Kenya
Zambia
31. What is official language in Angola?
Spanish
English
French
Portuguese
32. What area south of Sahara with semi-arid climate stretches between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea?
Sahel
Maghreb
Kalahari
Oranje
33. The name of what African country derived from the ancient Greek name for the Red Sea?
Eritrea
Somalia
Sudan
Ethiopia
34. What is official language in Senegal?
English
Swahili
French
Arabic
35. What is the most-spoken first language in Africa?
Portuguese
English
Arabic
French
36. Which European country colonized Namibia between 1884 and 1915?
Portugal
Germany
United Kingdom
France
37. What Spanish islands are located just off the coast of Morocco?
Balearic
Azores
Madeira
Canary
38. What is the name of mountain range spanning the north of Algeria?
Meru
Atlas
Rwenzori
Elgon
39. What was the former name of the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1971 to 1997?
Brazzaville
Dahomey
Zaire
Rhodesia
40. What African river is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths in excess of 220 m?
Congo
Zambezi
Nile
Limpopo
41. What ethnic group is made up of Egyptian Christians?
Copts
Tutsi
Berbers
Hutu
42. What is the name of the strait between Morocco and Spain?
Bab-el-Mandeb
Gibraltar
Dardanelles
Bosphorus
43. Which African country has flag that is nearly identical to flag of Romania?
Benin
Cameroon
Gabon
Chad
44. In which African region are the Ahaggar mountains located?
Western Africa
Northern Africa
Eastern Africa
Central Africa
45. What is the name of Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa?
Bizerte
Ceuta
Gibraltar
Tangier
46. Which is the longest river in Africa?
Zambezi
Niger
Nile
Congo
47. In which body of water is the island of Comoros located?
Atlantic ocean
Indian ocean
Mediterranean sea
Red sea
48. What disputed territory is divided between Morocco and the Sahrawi Republic?
Gaza Strip
Palestine
Western Sahara
West Bank
49. What is the official language of Egypt?
Arabic
English
French
Persian
50. What is the name of the strait between Red sea and Gulf of Aden?
Suez
Dardanelles
Gibraltar
Bab-el Mandeb
51. Afrikaans language of South Africa evolved from what European language?
French
Spanish
German
Dutch
52. What is the name of the region of North Africa that includes Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia?
Nubia
Sahel
Maghreb
Mayombe
53. What European country colonized Tunisia?
Italy
Spain
Portugal
France
54. What African river does not have an outlet to the sea and instead it discharges into the basin in the Kalahari Desert?
Zambezi
Oranje
Okavango
Congo
55. What ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short live primarily in Congo basin?
Bantu
Pygmy
Maasai
Zulu
56. What is the name of the gulf of the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Gabon to Liberia?
Gulf of Nigeria
Gulf of Ghana
Gulf of Guinea
Gulf of Cameroon
57. What was the colonial name of Ghana?
Gold Coast
Ivory Coast
White Coast
Silver Coast
58. Half of Botswana's territory lies in what desert?
Sahara
Kalahari
Gobi
Namib
59. What African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Kenya
Sudan
Somalia
Ethiopia
60. The Serengeti hosts the second largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world. Where is it located?
South Africa
Tanzania
Namibia
Kenya
61. There are only three sovereign monarchies in Africa. Which country is not monarchy?
Morocco
Lesotho
Eswatini
Mali
62. From which country Eritrea became independent in 1993?
Ethiopia
Egypt
Somalia
Sudan
63. What are official languages in Morocco?
English and French
French and Arabic
Berber and English
Arabic and Berber
64. Which European country colonized Burkina Faso from 1896 to 1960?
France
Spain
Netherlands
Belgium
65. In what body of water is Mauritius located?
Atlantic ocean
Indian ocean
Red sea
Mediterranean sea
66. Which European country briefly colonized Libya?
France
Italy
Spain
Germany
67. In which country is Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa located?
D.R. Congo
Tanzania
Kenya
Uganda
68. Which ocean gulf is located between Somalia and Arabian peninsula?
Gulf of Oman
Persian gulf
Gulf of Aden
Gulf of Guinea
69. Which European country colonized the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Netherlands
Germany
France
Belgium
70. What is the largest country in Africa by size?
Algeria
Egypt
South Africa
D.R. Congo
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CardinalSin
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Feb 20, 2021
Great quiz. Thank you.
Nenadbs
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Feb 20, 2021
Thanks :)
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