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Natural Landmarks

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KENYA/UGANDA/TANZANIA: Lake Victoria, is the largest African Great Lake by area, the world’s largest tropical lake, and the second largest fresh water body in the...

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Lake Tanganyika, Africa’s second largest after Lake Victoria, is situated in western Tanzania along the border with Congo, Burundi and Zambia. It covers an area...

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MOROCCO/ALGERIA/TUNISIA: Located on the northwestern coast of Africa, the Atlas Mountains are a series of mountain ranges that separate the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of...

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Located between the Arabian Peninsula and the African continent, the Red Sea separates the coasts of Egypt, Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea on the west from...

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ZAMBIA/ZIMBABWE – Victoria Falls was named after Queen Victoria by the explorer David Livingstone in 1855. Its original name, however, was Mosi-oa-Tunya, meaning “the smoke...

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Lake Retba, better known as Lac Rose (the Pink Lake), lies north of the Cape-Verde peninsula of Senegal, some 30km northeast of the capital, Dakar,...

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Mount Hombori is located in the Hombori Tondo region of Mali, West Africa. It consists of an inaccessible tableland of about 2 km square located...

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This website features a collection of articles largely from previously published volumes of the Encyclopaedia Africana, specifically the Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography, which highlights notable individuals from various regions of Africa. Please note that in these volumes, some names of people, towns, and countries were spelled differently than they are today. We have retained these historical spellings to preserve the integrity of the original publications. In some instances, the current spellings are also provided for easy reference.
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