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