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Four Letter African Geography

Can you guess these African geographic answers that are only four letters long?
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First submittedApril 22, 2020
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Country where Timbuktu can be found
Mali
Dominant ethnic group in North Africa
Arab
Longest river in Africa
Nile
Largest ethnic group of South Africa
Zulu
Country next to Benin
Togo
Major Egyptian canal
Suez
São ____ and Príncipe
Tomé
Lake in northern Africa which was once
the size of the Caspian Sea
Chad
Extinct bird of Mauritius
Dodo
One of the two largest ethnic groups
in Burundi and Rwanda
Hutu
Cape of _____ Hope
Good
Term for a Dutch-descended person
in South Africa
Boer
City home to the Great Pyramid
Giza
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Burkina ____
Faso
Biggest city in northern Nigeria
Kano
Term for an Egyptian Christian
Copt
Capital of world's newest country
Juba
Great ____ Valley
Rift
Second-largest city in Algeria
Oran
Currency of South Africa
Rand
Gulf north of Somalia
Aden
One of the major languages of Nigeria
Igbo
Second city of Tunisia
Sfax
Currency of Ethiopia
Birr
Term for a dry river bed that contains
water during heavy rains
Wadi
Landform that tourists come
to Namibia to see
Dune
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17 Comments
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Level 68
Dec 3, 2025
The first taker since the quiz reset says that this is a good quiz!
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Level 88
Dec 3, 2025
For Tunisia, do you mean second-largest, or is it chronologically the second city?
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Level 80
Dec 3, 2025
I've learned that it's the second-largest, so I'm pretty sure that was the meaning of it. But yeah, I also hate it when questions are imprecise and ambiguous.
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Level 57
Apr 29, 2026
Instead of assuming others are imprecise first seek to understand whether there's something you are unaware of. It would have saved you from embarrassing yourself.
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Level 89
Dec 4, 2025
This is actually a fairly common geographic term. From Wikipedia: A second city is the second-most important city in the urban hierarchy of a country or region, often in contrast to a primate city.
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Level 75
Dec 3, 2025
Lake Chad is in either central or west Africa. Next to Benin you can find Nigeria, not just Togo. In Nigeria Hausa and Yoruba are as well one of the most common languages yet you do not accept them as correct answer.
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Level 82
Dec 3, 2025
Did you read the name of the quiz ?
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Level 72
Dec 3, 2025
Lake Chad is not in West Africa bud. Considering the size of Africa, it's pretty far North. So I don't know what your logic is. Central Africa is not very specific for a continent like Africa.
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Level 80
Dec 3, 2025
Facepalm!
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Level 85
Dec 3, 2025
tried "vlei" for dune lel
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Level 53
Dec 6, 2025
Early enough to this feature that 19/26 beats or equals 44%
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Level 57
Apr 29, 2026
Fula
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Level 71
Apr 29, 2026
I was going to say this. Shouldn't this also count for the Nigeria language question?
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Level 53
Apr 29, 2026
really good quiz very diverse and the most important answers
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Level 57
Apr 29, 2026
A bit brainrotty, but ergs could probably be accepted for dune. Great quiz though!
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Level 25
Apr 29, 2026
Arabs arent the biggest ethnic group in north africa
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Level 75
Apr 29, 2026
Good quiz!