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Africa Flashcards

1
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what is the 2nd largest continent?

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Africa

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2
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what is africa’s population?

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over 1.2 billion

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3
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Why was Africa called the dark Continent?

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because so little was known about the uncharted land

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4
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who discovered Africa’s great natural resources?

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David Livingstone

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5
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what separates Africa and Asia?

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Suez canal

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6
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what European nations had colonies in Africa?

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Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, and Portugal

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7
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what is Africa’s highest peaks?

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Mt Kilimanjaro and Mnt. Kenya

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8
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what is the world’s largest desert?

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Sahara

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9
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what is the world’s long­est river?

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Nile

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10
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what is the area where most ‘big game’ animals live?

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Serengeti Plain

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11
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what are the three largest lakes?

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Victoria, Tanganyika and Nyasa

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12
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what is Africa’s largest lake and the world’s second largest body of freshwater?

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Lake Victoria

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13
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what is the world’s longest freshwater lake?

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Lake Tanganyika

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14
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what separates Africa and Europe?

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Strait of Gibraltar

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15
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what is the continent’s most dramatic geographic feature?

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Eastern Rift System

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16
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What is the four basic climate and vegetation zones?

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Rainforest, savanna, desert, highland

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17
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what are the five nations in Saharan Africa?

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Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco

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18
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what is the earliest civilization in africa?

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Egypt

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19
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what is the largest city in Africa, serves as the capital of egypt?

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Cairo

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20
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what are the descendants of Ham, Noah’s son called?

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Hamitic

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21
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what is the state religion in egypt?

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Islam

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22
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what is another name for farmers?

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Fellahin

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23
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what are open air markets?

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Bazzars

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24
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what provides year round irrigation in egypt?

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Aswan High Dam

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25
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what is the name given after the Semites, descendants of Noah’s son Shem?

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Semitic

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26
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who was Egypt’s first president?

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

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27
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what is Libya’s most productive farmland?

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Gefara Plain

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27
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what is known as the West?

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Maghreb

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28
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what are the lands west of Egypt?

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Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco

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29
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what is Libya’s capital and largest city?

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Tripoli

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30
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what is the state religion of Libya?

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Islam

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31
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who deposed the Libyan pro-Western king and established a military dictatorship?

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Muammar Qaddafi

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32
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what are the most important export products in the west?

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oil, natural gas, and phosphates-

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33
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what is the largest country in Africa?

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Algeria

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34
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what is the disputed desert country along the Atlantic coast?

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Western Sahara

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35
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what 5 countries that occupy the Sahel?

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Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan

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36
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what was the newest nation as of July 2011?

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South Sudan

37
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what are the three main climates in Sudan?

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Desert, steppe, savanna

38
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what is the world’s largest swamp?

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Sudd

39
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what are the ancient Egyptians called?

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Nubia

40
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who is the first recorded African Christian?

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Ethiopian eunuch

41
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what are the countries west of Sudan?

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Chad, Niger, Mali, and Mauritania

42
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what river feeds Lake Chad; in Niger and Mali?

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Chari River

43
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what River cuts across the Nigerian plateau and plunges over waterfalls before reaching the Gulf of Guinea?

A

Niger River

44
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what river forms the southern border as it flows toward the Atlantic Ocean?

A

Senegal river

45
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what became Africa’s first and greatest Christian kingdom?

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Aksum

46
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who was the evangelical Christian, led England’s movement to abolish slavery, by force?

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William Wilberforce

46
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who was at one time one of the most notorious slave traders in West Africa?

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John Newton

47
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what is the largest river system in Western Africa?

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Niger River

48
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what are the Countries of Western Africa?

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Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria

49
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what is the southwest?

A

Yoruba

50
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what is the south-east?

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Ibo

51
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what is the north?

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Hausa and Fulani

52
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what is Nigeria’s first capital?

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Lagos

53
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who became the first black bishop to be ordained by the Church of England?

A

Samuel Adjai Crowther

54
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what became the first African nation south of the Sahara to achieve independence from a colonial power?

A

Ghana

55
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who was Ghana’s first president?

A

Kwame Nkrumah

55
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what is the modern capital of Sierra Leone?

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Freetown

56
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who are the 2 Black American missionaries?

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Lott Carey & Colin Teague

57
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what river flows northward through the geographic center of Africa, turning west and then south as it crosses the broad Congo basin on its way to the Atlantic Ocean?

A

Congo River

58
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what is one of the largest waterfalls in volume?

A

Boyoma Falls

59
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what is the former name if the DRC?

A

Zaire

60
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who emerged as the victor and established a dictatorship?

A

Joseph Mobutu

60
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what is the official language of the DRC?

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French

61
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who traced the Congo of its source in 1877?

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Henry M. Stanley

62
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what is the capital and largest city in the DRC?

A

Kinshasa

62
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what is the unofficial language of the DRC?

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Bantu

63
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what is a mixture of catholicism and pagan religions?

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Kimbanguism

64
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what countries occupy the Horn of Africa?

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Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia

65
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what lies between the Rift System and the Indian Ocean?

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Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, and Tanzania

66
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who began a program of modernization in Ethiopia to increase the prosperity and security of his people?

A

Haile Selassie I

67
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what is the capital of Ethiopia?

A

Addis Ababa

68
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who instituted economic reforms that transformed Tanzania into a Communist state?

A

Julius Nyerere

69
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what is called “the Smoke that Thunders”?

A

Victoria Falls

70
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what is the Southern Africa’s largest desert region?

A

Kalahari

71
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what is the wealthiest and most developed nation in Africa?

A

Republic of South Africa

72
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what are known as Dutch farmers?

A

Boers

72
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what was the war when The Boers and the British took up arms against each other called?

A

Boer War

72
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what is the new name of the Boers?

A

Afrikaners

73
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what was the event where Boers migrated northeast of the Orange River, pushing the Bantu people into the hills?

A

Great Trek

74
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what is the program of racial segregation, divided the South Africans into racial groups—white, black, Indians, and people of mixed ancestry?

A

Apartheid

75
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who was south africa’s first black president?

A

Nelson Mandela

76
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what was the legislative capital of south africa?

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Cape Town

77
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what is the industrial and mining center in the state of Transvaal?

A

Johannesburg

78
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what is the administrative capital of south africa?

A

Pretoria

79
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what is the judicial capital of south africa?

A

Transvaal

80
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what are the Five islands of south africa?

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Cape Verde, Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles, and Mauritius

81
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what is located off the west coast of Africa?

A

Cape Verde islands

82
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what is the group of islands off the east coast of Africa, was settled by the French before it became a British colony?

A

Seychelles

82
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what lies east of Africa in the Mozambique Channel and includes several islands?

A

Comoros

83
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what is the fourth largest island in the world?

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84
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what is named for the largest of the islands that bear its name?

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Mauritius

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