African Geography by Letter - W

Can you guess these African geography-related answers that begin with the letter W?

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Hint	Answer
Capital of Namibia	Windhoek
Territory disputed between Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	Western Sahara
Coastal city in Namibia that was part of South Africa until 1993	Walvis Bay
City with a metro area of 1 million in southern Nigeria	Warri
Province of South Africa that Cape Town is located in	Western Cape
Most widely spoken language in Senegal	Wolof
One of the two main tributaries on the Nile, which flows from Lake Victoria in Uganda to Khartoum, Sudan	White Nile
Former spelling of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso	Wagadugu
Name for administrative divisions in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Tanzania, and Tunisia	wilaya
Arabic term for a river bed that contains water only after rain	wadi

Hint	Answer
Wild pig native to sub-Saharan Africa	warthog
Historic town in the Hirshabelle region of Somalia	Warsheikh
Currency of Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo	West African CFA franc
Mountain in northern South Africa	Waterberg
Region in eastern Ghana with a separatist movement	Western Togoland
Large antelope that stampeded in the Lion King	wildebeest
International sports tournament held in South Africa in 2010	World Cup
Subnational kingdom in western Kenya that was formerly a pre-colonial empire	Wanga Kingdom
Islamic nation that existed from 1878-1898 in what is now Guinea, the Ivory Coast, Mali, and Sierra Leone	Wassoulou Empire
Former sultanate in what is now coastal Kenya from 1810-1923	Wituland