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Africa: interesting facts - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 170 times
- The average score is 20 of 48
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| Hyperinflation here reached a year-on-year figure of 89.7 sextillion % in 2008. | Zimbabwe | 81%
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| The Mundari tribe of this country bathe in cow urine. It was formerly part of Sudan and its currency is the pound. | South Sudan | 78%
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| Previously led by the self-styled Colonel Gaddafi, this nation has more (hot) desert than any other country in the world. | Libya | 74%
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| In 2001, many Zanzibaris refused to sleep in their own houses for fear of being sexually molested by a ghost. | Tanzania | 73%
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| This country was the home of Idi Amin. In 2023, a 110-year-old here was arrested for murdering his wife, 109, for denying him sex. | Uganda | 73%
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| The Barbie film was banned in this country, which is the largest on the continent. | Algeria | 69%
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| This north-western nation will co-host the 2030 World Cup. | Morocco | 63%
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| Formerly known as the Gold Coast, this became the first sub-Saharan nation to declare independence from European colonisation. | Ghana | 59%
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| There is a gulf named after this country, which contains half the world's aluminium ore (bauxite). | Guinea | 59%
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| Ryan Giggs' grandfather was from this nation, whose capital is Freetown. | Sierra Leone | 58%
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| Africa's lowest point is in this small state on the Gulf of Aden; its biggest exports are sheep and goats. | Djibouti | 57%
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| Multi-millionaire president Jacob Zuma claimed that he had to sell his hats and socks to pay his legal fees. | South Africa | 55%
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| Africa's least-corrupt country, formerly called Bechuanaland, it is the world's biggest diamond producer measured by value. | Botswana | 53%
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| A lake occupies a third of the area of this narrow country, whose primary export is tobacco. | Malawi | 52%
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| Roman Emperor Aemilianus was from this far northern country, then known as Ifriqiya ("Africa"). | Tunisia | 51%
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| This Portuguese-speaking southern country has an endemic bird called the golden-backed bishop. | Angola | 49%
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| This western Saharan nation was the last country to abolish slavery, in 1981. | Mauritania | 49%
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| Compasses here can be thrown off by the Bangui magnetic anomaly. | Central African Republic | 48%
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| The planetoid 229762 Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà is named after a mythical aardvark girl from this sparse, coastal desert nation. | Namibia | 47%
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In 2023, a wedding in Benin City was cancelled after it transpired that the groom was already married, with seven children. | Nigeria | 46%
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| This mountainous southern nation has the world's highest suicide rate. | Lesotho | 44%
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| This country is noted for its motor car rally. Its football team, and Norway's, are the only two countries Brazil have played but never beaten. | Senegal | 43%
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| Only 14% of this small country's population speak the official language, Portuguese. | Guinea-Bissau | 41%
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| This small, narrow country is famous for footballer Emmanuel Adebayor. Less famous is the male pastor who wears high heels when preaching. | Togo | 38%
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| This small, landlocked Rift Valley country is the poorest in the world. | Burundi | 36%
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| Young men of the Hamar tribe, in this country of 120 million, undergo a ritual where they are naked, smeared with dung and have to jump from a running bull. | Ethiopia | 35%
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| In 2017 in this country (formerly Dahomey) a pastor of the Zangbeto brotherhood banned some worshippers who he said stole a chicken from him for a ritual purpose. | Benin | 34%
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| An Italian called de Brazza played a major role in this equatorial nation's history. | Congo | 34%
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| Portugal striker Eusebio was born in this country, whose languages include Xichangana, Xitswa and Xironga. | Mozambique | 34%
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| The smallest country on the continent, it is majority Muslim. Citizens here vote by dropping a marble into a hole in the ground. | The Gambia | 34%
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| This is the continent's third-largest country. A former British colony, it has a population of 44 million. | Sudan | 31%
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| In Africa this is the only one-party state, and only country to be a have no privately-owned news media. Its name comes from the Greek for "red". | Eritrea | 30%
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| This country's war, thought to be the world's worst since WW2, caused around 6 million deaths between 1998–2008. | D.R. Congo | 29%
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| This country won the 2024 African Nations Cup. Its Senufo people have a ritual where dead elders are buried under the floors of their homes. | Ivory Coast | 29%
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| A fake lawyer in this eastern equatorial nation claimed in 2023 to have won 26 court cases. | Kenya | 29%
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| A man in this mountainous central country locked himself in for 55 years due to his fear of women. | Rwanda | 29%
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| A man in Koudougou drives his moped around by lying on it, with no helmet, and steering it with his feet. | Burkina Faso | 28%
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| In 2021, a man from this ancient country swallowed a mobile phone and waited 6 months before getting it surgically removed from his stomach. | Egypt | 28%
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| The world's oldest known mine (41,000 BC) was in this small landlocked nation, which is also the birthplace of actor Richard E Grant. | Eswatini | 28%
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| Ex-president Charles Taylor was given 50 years in jail for the atrocities of the 1989-2003 civil wars. | Liberia | 28%
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| 15,000 troops from this large central Saharan country fought on the Allied side in WW2. | Chad | 27%
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| The world's largest frog (up to 33cm long) can be found in this country, whose largest city is Bata. | Equatorial Guinea | 27%
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| In 1991, the government was overthrown by warring clans and the country descended into anarchy and chaos. | Somalia | 24%
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| The main export of this landlocked Saharan country is radioactive chemicals. | Niger | 23%
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| This copper-producing nation has a hotel where elephants stroll around inside the building. | Zambia | 19%
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| Many players from this football hotbed have camped in graveyards on the eve of a big game, due to a superstition that it will bring them luck. | Cameroon | 18%
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| The name of this country on the Niger river comes from the Bambara word for hippopotamus. Its languages include Xaasongaxango. | Mali | 18%
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| Omar Bongo, president of this country on the equator, was the world's longest-ruling non-royal leader. | Gabon | 16%
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