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