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Madagascar · Countries & regions · Country profiles
Seychelles is an African island country in the western Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar. Its geography contrasts the steep granitic landscapes of islands such as Mahé and Praslin…
Niger River · Countries & regions · Map guides
The Niger River’s route is easy to misread: it starts in Guinea, curves far into the West African interior, and reaches the Atlantic in Nigeria. Along the way,…
Nairobi · Cities & capitals · Map guides
Nairobi challenges two common assumptions about African cities: that a place near the Equator must be uniformly hot, and that a large capital must be physically separate from…
Addis Ababa · Cities & capitals · Place guides
Addis Ababa is easier to understand when you look beyond its position as a capital. It is a highland city with an uneven surface, streams that connect it…
Angola · Countries & regions · Map guides
The Zambezi is not just the river at Victoria Falls. Its course links an upper-river loop through Angola, long border reaches, two major reservoirs and a delta on…
Cairo · Cities & capitals · Place guides
Cairo is often introduced through a pyramid photograph, but that can leave the geography muddled. The historic city, the west-bank city of Giza, the Nile Delta and Egypt's…
South Africa · Borders · Map guides
A map labeled “Southern Africa” can cover five countries or a much wider area. The difference usually comes from the definition, not from a disagreement about where South…
Gibraltar · Borders · Map guides
The gap between Spain and Morocco looks small on a world map, but three different questions are often bundled together: where the strait lies, how far it is…
Belgium · Countries & regions · Comparisons
The names look like two versions of one state, but they belong to neighboring sovereign countries with separate colonial paths. The quickest way to untangle them is to…
Algeria · Countries & regions · Country profiles
Algeria is a major North African country on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the largest country in Africa by area, but most of its people, farms, ports, and…
Bolivia · Cities & capitals · Place guides
Most countries pick one big capital city and put almost everything there.But a small group — from South Africa to Bolivia and the Netherlands — deliberately split power…
Djibouti · Culture · Quizzes
Test your knowledge of Djibouti with 10 easy questions about this Horn of Africa country. Topics include its capital, neighbors, official languages, mountains, lakes and independence. GeographyPin ·…