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