Sub-Saharan Africa Flashcards
Kalahari Desert
Kalahari Desert, large basinlike plain of the interior plateau of Southern Africa. It occupies almost all of Botswana, the eastern third of Namibia, and the northernmost part of Northern Cape province in South Africa
Namib Desert
One of the oldest and largest deserts, the Namib stretches inland from the Atlantic Ocean, covering large swathes of Namibia and parts of Angola and South Africa.
Zambezi River
south-central Africa. It rises in northwestern Zambia, flows south across eastern Angola and western Zambia to the border of Botswana, then turns east and forms the Zambia-Zimbabwe border.
Niger River
The Niger River is located in West Africa. It traverses through Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria. It begins in the Guinea highlands and ends at the Gulf of Guinea.
Congo River
Congo River, or Zaire River, River, west-central Africa. Rising in Zambia as the Chambeshi and flowing 2,900 mi (4,700 km) through the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Atlantic Ocean, it is the second longest river in Africa.
Lake Victoria
largest lake in Africa and chief reservoir of the Nile, lying mainly in Tanzania and Uganda but bordering on Kenya
Indian Ocean
on the north by Asia, including the country of India for which it’s named, on the west by Africa, and on the east by Indonesia and Australia
Red Sea
between the Arabian Peninsula and Africa
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is the second-largest freshwater lake by volume and the second deepest, in both cases after Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is the world’s longest freshwater lake. Bordered by Burundi and Tanzania to the east and the DRC and Zimbabwe to the west
Lagos
a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.
Dakar
Dakar is the capital of Senegal, in West Africa
Johannesburg
Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city and capital of Gauteng province,
