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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?
David Livingstone
Henry Stanley
Francis Drake
John Cabot
2. What country was created after referendum in Sudan in 2011?
Eritrea
North Sudan
Burundi
South Sudan
3. Nubia is a region along what river in Africa?
Niger
Zambezi
Congo
Nile
4. What country colonized Cameroon from 1884 to 1916, calling it Kamerun?
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Netherlands
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?
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Belgium
8. What is the second largest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro?
Elgon
Kenya
Atlas
Rwenzori
9. There are three capital cities of South Africa. Which city is not the capital?
Johannesburg
Cape Town
Bloemfontein
Pretoria
10. Victoria Falls are located on the border between what two countries?
Zambia and Zimbabwe
South Africa and Mozambique
Botswana and Namibia
Angola and DR Congo
11. Sibebe is the second-largest monolith in the world located near the capital city Mbabane. Which country is this?
Eswatini
Lesotho
Rwanda
Zambia
12. Which ecosystem does not exist in Africa?
Savanna
Taiga
Tropical rainforest
Steppe
13. Djibouti have a coastline along what body of water?
Indian ocean
Red sea
Atlantic ocean
Mediterranean sea
14. Which African country was known as Upper Volta until 1984?
Benin
Mauritania
Ethiopia
Burkina Faso
15. From which country Botswana gained its independence in 1966?
France
Belgium
Spain
United Kingdom
16. What is official language in Benin?
Spanish
English
Italian
French
17. Which two rivers merge in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, and form the Nile River?
Blue and Green Nile
Yellow and White Nile
Green and Yellow Nile
White and Blue Nile
18. What country in Africa has the highest population?
South Africa
Egypt
Ethiopia
Nigeria
19. Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous region of which country?
Kenya
Mozambique
Tanzania
South Africa
20. What lake in Africa is the world's second oldest and second deepest freshwater lake?
Malawi
Kivu
Tanganyika
Victoria
21. In what part of Africa mainly Bushmen, also known as San people live?
Western Africa
Northern Africa
Southern Africa
Eastern Africa
22. Which is the largest lake in Africa?
Volta
Tanganyika
Victoria
Malawi
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
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Mozambique
25. What river flows along Botswana's southern border before emptying into the Indian Ocean?
Congo
Niger
Zambezi
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?
Berber
Zulu
Maasai
Bushmen
28. What country which completely surrounds Lesotho?
Zimbabwe
Botswana
South Africa
Namibia
29. From which European country Algeria gained its independence in 1962?
France
Spain
Belgium
United Kingdom
30. The Victoria lake's area is divided among three countries. Which country is not one of them?
Zambia
Uganda
Tanzania
Kenya
31. What is official language in Angola?
French
Portuguese
Spanish
English
32. What area south of Sahara with semi-arid climate stretches between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea?
Sahel
Oranje
Maghreb
Kalahari
33. The name of what African country derived from the ancient Greek name for the Red Sea?
Somalia
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Sudan
34. What is official language in Senegal?
Arabic
English
French
Swahili
35. What is the most-spoken first language in Africa?
Arabic
Portuguese
French
English
36. Which European country colonized Namibia between 1884 and 1915?
Portugal
Germany
United Kingdom
France
37. What Spanish islands are located just off the coast of Morocco?
Madeira
Balearic
Canary
Azores
38. What is the name of mountain range spanning the north of Algeria?
Atlas
Elgon
Meru
Rwenzori
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?
Zambezi
Nile
Congo
Limpopo
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?
Bosphorus
Dardanelles
Bab-el-Mandeb
Gibraltar
43. Which African country has flag that is nearly identical to flag of Romania?
Cameroon
Chad
Gabon
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?
Ceuta
Gibraltar
Bizerte
Tangier
46. Which is the longest river in Africa?
Zambezi
Congo
Nile
Niger
47. In which body of water is the island of Comoros located?
Indian ocean
Red sea
Atlantic ocean
Mediterranean sea
48. What disputed territory is divided between Morocco and the Sahrawi Republic?
West Bank
Western Sahara
Palestine
Gaza Strip
49. What is the official language of Egypt?
Arabic
English
French
Persian
50. What is the name of the strait between Red sea and Gulf of Aden?
Gibraltar
Bab-el Mandeb
Suez
Dardanelles
51. Afrikaans language of South Africa evolved from what European language?
French
German
Spanish
Dutch
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?
Spain
Portugal
Italy
France
54. What African river does not have an outlet to the sea and instead it discharges into the basin in the Kalahari Desert?
Okavango
Congo
Zambezi
Oranje
55. What ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short live primarily in Congo basin?
Maasai
Bantu
Pygmy
Zulu
56. What is the name of the gulf of the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Gabon to Liberia?
Gulf of Guinea
Gulf of Nigeria
Gulf of Ghana
Gulf of Cameroon
57. What was the colonial name of Ghana?
Gold Coast
Ivory Coast
Silver Coast
White Coast
58. Half of Botswana's territory lies in what desert?
Gobi
Kalahari
Namib
Sahara
59. What African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Somalia
Ethiopia
Kenya
Sudan
60. The Serengeti hosts the second largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world. Where is it located?
Kenya
South Africa
Namibia
Tanzania
61. There are only three sovereign monarchies in Africa. Which country is not monarchy?
Eswatini
Mali
Morocco
Lesotho
62. From which country Eritrea became independent in 1993?
Egypt
Sudan
Ethiopia
Somalia
63. What are official languages in Morocco?
French and Arabic
English and French
Arabic and Berber
Berber and English
64. Which European country colonized Burkina Faso from 1896 to 1960?
Netherlands
France
Belgium
Spain
65. In what body of water is Mauritius located?
Red sea
Mediterranean sea
Atlantic ocean
Indian ocean
66. Which European country briefly colonized Libya?
Spain
Germany
France
Italy
67. In which country is Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa located?
Uganda
Kenya
D.R. Congo
Tanzania
68. Which ocean gulf is located between Somalia and Arabian peninsula?
Persian gulf
Gulf of Aden
Gulf of Guinea
Gulf of Oman
69. Which European country colonized the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Belgium
Netherlands
France
Germany
70. What is the largest country in Africa by size?
D.R. Congo
South Africa
Egypt
Algeria
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CardinalSin
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Feb 20, 2021
Great quiz. Thank you.
Nenadbs
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Feb 20, 2021
Thanks :)
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