Continent by Letter-Africa

Answer the questions about Africa for each letter of the alphabet.

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Letter	Hint	Answer
A	Largest country	Algeria
B	Country formerly named Dahomey	Benin
C	Lake that is now almost completely dried up	Chad
D	Biggest city in Tanzania	Dar Es Salaam
E	Country formerly known as Abyssinia	Ethiopia
F	Capital of Sierra Leone	Freetown
G	Former name of Ghana in colonial times	Gold Coast
H	Region with Somalia and Djibouti: ____ of Africa	Horn
I	Common name of Côte d'Ivoire	Ivory Coast
J	Capital of South Sudan	Juba
K	Highest mountain	Kilimanjaro
L	Portuguese for "lakes" or a major city	Lagos
M	Northwestern region	Maghreb
N	Longest river	Nile
O	Capital of Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou
P	Language of Angola and Mozambique	Portuguese
Q	Four letter Egyptian city	Qena
R	Country that suffered a genocide in 1994	Rwanda
S	Largest desert	Sahara
T	Group(s) targeted in R	Tutsi/Twa
U	Country on V	Uganda
V	Largest lake	Victoria
W	Capital of Namibia	Windhoek
X	Second most common first language in South Africa	Xhosa
Y	Capital of Cameroon	Yaoundé
Z	Former name of the D.R Congo	Zaire