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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
John Cabot
Francis Drake
Henry Stanley
2. What country was created after referendum in Sudan in 2011?
Eritrea
South Sudan
North Sudan
Burundi
3. Nubia is a region along what river in Africa?
Niger
Nile
Zambezi
Congo
4. What country colonized Cameroon from 1884 to 1916, calling it Kamerun?
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Netherlands
5. What was the only color that appeared on the former flag of Libya from 1977 to 2011?
White
Red
Green
Blue
6. What is the former name of Benin?
Rhodesia
Dahomey
Upper Volta
Swaziland
7. From which country Gabon gained its independence in 1960?
France
Italy
United Kingdom
Belgium
8. What is the second largest mountain in Africa after Kilimanjaro?
Kenya
Rwenzori
Elgon
Atlas
9. There are three capital cities of South Africa. Which city is not the capital?
Bloemfontein
Pretoria
Johannesburg
Cape Town
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
Zambia
Rwanda
Lesotho
12. Which ecosystem does not exist in Africa?
Tropical rainforest
Steppe
Savanna
Taiga
13. Djibouti have a coastline along what body of water?
Mediterranean sea
Atlantic ocean
Red sea
Indian ocean
14. Which African country was known as Upper Volta until 1984?
Mauritania
Benin
Burkina Faso
Ethiopia
15. From which country Botswana gained its independence in 1966?
France
United Kingdom
Spain
Belgium
16. What is official language in Benin?
Italian
English
French
Spanish
17. Which two rivers merge in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, and form the Nile River?
White and Blue Nile
Green and Yellow Nile
Yellow and White Nile
Blue and Green Nile
18. What country in Africa has the highest population?
South Africa
Ethiopia
Egypt
Nigeria
19. Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous region of which country?
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
South Africa
20. What lake in Africa is the world's second oldest and second deepest freshwater lake?
Kivu
Victoria
Malawi
Tanganyika
21. In what part of Africa mainly Bushmen, also known as San people live?
Western Africa
Northern Africa
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
22. Which is the largest lake in Africa?
Volta
Victoria
Malawi
Tanganyika
23. Which country controlled Eritrea between 1882–1936?
France
Italy
Germany
Spain
24. Rhodesia was an unrecognized state in southern Africa from 1965 to 1979, equivalent in territory to which modern country?
Zambia
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Mozambique
25. What river flows along Botswana's southern border before emptying into the Indian Ocean?
Limpopo
Niger
Zambezi
Congo
26. Which explorer first reached the Cape of Good Hope in 1488?
Vasco da Gama
Bartolomeu Dias
Ferdinand Magellan
Henry the Navigator
27. What ethnic group of Tanzania and Kenya live a semi-nomadic life based on cattle herding?
Zulu
Berber
Maasai
Bushmen
28. What country which completely surrounds Lesotho?
South Africa
Namibia
Botswana
Zimbabwe
29. From which European country Algeria gained its independence in 1962?
Spain
United Kingdom
France
Belgium
30. The Victoria lake's area is divided among three countries. Which country is not one of them?
Kenya
Tanzania
Zambia
Uganda
31. What is official language in Angola?
Spanish
French
English
Portuguese
32. What area south of Sahara with semi-arid climate stretches between the Atlantic Ocean and the Red Sea?
Maghreb
Kalahari
Sahel
Oranje
33. The name of what African country derived from the ancient Greek name for the Red Sea?
Somalia
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Sudan
34. What is official language in Senegal?
Swahili
Arabic
English
French
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?
Canary
Azores
Madeira
Balearic
38. What is the name of mountain range spanning the north of Algeria?
Rwenzori
Atlas
Elgon
Meru
39. What was the former name of the Democratic Republic of Congo from 1971 to 1997?
Dahomey
Brazzaville
Zaire
Rhodesia
40. What African river is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths in excess of 220 m?
Congo
Limpopo
Nile
Zambezi
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?
Gibraltar
Dardanelles
Bab-el-Mandeb
Bosphorus
43. Which African country has flag that is nearly identical to flag of Romania?
Chad
Benin
Gabon
Cameroon
44. In which African region are the Ahaggar mountains located?
Western Africa
Northern Africa
Eastern Africa
Central Africa
45. What is the name of Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa?
Ceuta
Bizerte
Gibraltar
Tangier
46. Which is the longest river in Africa?
Congo
Nile
Niger
Zambezi
47. In which body of water is the island of Comoros located?
Mediterranean sea
Indian ocean
Red sea
Atlantic ocean
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
French
English
Persian
50. What is the name of the strait between Red sea and Gulf of Aden?
Bab-el Mandeb
Suez
Gibraltar
Dardanelles
51. Afrikaans language of South Africa evolved from what European language?
French
Dutch
German
Spanish
52. What is the name of the region of North Africa that includes Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia?
Sahel
Maghreb
Mayombe
Nubia
53. What European country colonized Tunisia?
Spain
Italy
Portugal
France
54. What African river does not have an outlet to the sea and instead it discharges into the basin in the Kalahari Desert?
Congo
Okavango
Zambezi
Oranje
55. What ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short live primarily in Congo basin?
Pygmy
Maasai
Zulu
Bantu
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 Guinea
Gulf of Cameroon
Gulf of Ghana
57. What was the colonial name of Ghana?
Ivory Coast
Silver Coast
White Coast
Gold Coast
58. Half of Botswana's territory lies in what desert?
Kalahari
Sahara
Namib
Gobi
59. What African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Sudan
Kenya
Somalia
Ethiopia
60. The Serengeti hosts the second largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world. Where is it located?
Kenya
South Africa
Tanzania
Namibia
61. There are only three sovereign monarchies in Africa. Which country is not monarchy?
Eswatini
Morocco
Lesotho
Mali
62. From which country Eritrea became independent in 1993?
Sudan
Egypt
Somalia
Ethiopia
63. What are official languages in Morocco?
French and Arabic
English and French
Berber and English
Arabic and Berber
64. Which European country colonized Burkina Faso from 1896 to 1960?
Netherlands
France
Spain
Belgium
65. In what body of water is Mauritius located?
Red sea
Indian ocean
Mediterranean sea
Atlantic ocean
66. Which European country briefly colonized Libya?
Italy
France
Germany
Spain
67. In which country is Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa located?
Tanzania
Kenya
Uganda
D.R. Congo
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?
France
Germany
Netherlands
Belgium
70. What is the largest country in Africa by size?
South Africa
D.R. Congo
Egypt
Algeria
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CardinalSin
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Feb 20, 2021
Great quiz. Thank you.
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