Africa

It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world, at 5,895 m (19,341 ft) above sea level.

Lake Assal is a saline lake that lies 155 m (509 ft) below sea level...making it the lowest point on land in Africa

Tectonic plate underlying Africa, 61,300,000 km2 (23,700,000 sq mi)

The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Europe and Africa to the east, and the Americas to the west.

The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa. They separate the Sahara from the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean; the mountain range stretches around 2,500 km (1,600 mi) through Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. The range's highest peak is Toubkal, in central Morocco, with an elevation of 4,167 metres (13,671 ft). The Atlas Mountains are primarily inhabited by Berber populations.

The Kalahari Desert is a large semiarid sandy savanna in Southern Africa covering 900,000 km2 (350,000 sq mi), extending into Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. Unlike a true desert, much of the Kalahari supports grasses, thorny shrubs and scattered trees, and is home to substantial wildlife populations despite its low and unpredictable rainfall.

The Namib is a coastal desert in Southern Africa. According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) along the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia and northwest South Africa, extending up to 200 kilometres inland from the coast to the base of the Great Escarpment. Its name derives from a Nama word meaning "vast place," and it is considered the oldest desert in the world.

The Ethiopian Highlands, also known as the Abyssinian Highlands, is a rugged mass of mountains extending from Ethiopia to Eritrea in Northeast Africa. It forms the largest continuous area of its elevation in the continent, with little of its surface falling below 1,500 m (4,900 ft), while the summits reach heights of up to 4,550 m (14,930 ft).

The Danakil Depression is a large valley of approximately 200 by 50 km (124 by 31 mi), across the north of the Afar Region of Ethiopia and Eritrea.

is located in the south of Namibia.

It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean. The river forms part of the international borders between South Africa and Lesotho and between South Africa and Namibia.

is the smaller, northern major island of the country of São Tomé and Príncipe lying off the west coast of Africa in the Gulf of Guinea.

to describe the region of West Africa, Central Africa and the Sahel that is home to countries with a high prevalence of coups d'état.

The Highveld (Afrikaans: Hoëveld, pronounced [ˈɦuəfælt], lit. 'High Field') is the portion of the South African inland plateau which has an altitude above roughly 1,500 m (4,900 ft), but below 2,100 m (6,900 ft)

aardvark and aardwolf. It is one of the largest biodiversity projects in South Africa

The Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve is located on the coast of Kenya

simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok County, Kenya

Island, is a volcanic island located in the middle of Lake Turkana in Kenya

principally of primary growth forest in the Alaotra-Mangoro Region in eastern Madagascar

square kilometres (66 sq mi) national wildlife reserve in south-eastern Kenya

The Chyulu Hills is a mountain range in Makueni County in southeastern Kenya

archipelago of sand banks, shoals and islets belonging to the Republic of Mauritius

rivers") is a mountain range in the Sahara desert, located in south-eastern Algeria

The Mali Empire was an empire in West Africa from c. 1235 to 1610

a landlocked independent Boer republic in Southern Africa

in southern Africa from 1910 to 1961

encompassed the present-day territories of Ethiopia and Eritrea

a monarchy in Southern Africa

was a British protectorate in Egypt

an ancient Greek polity based in Egypt

It was the seat of one of the earliest civilizations of ancient Africa, the Kerma culture, which lasted from around 2500 BC until its conquest by the New Kingdom of Egypt under Pharaoh Thutmose I around 1500 BC.

Confined largely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.

It includes sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean.

The Karoo ( kə-ROO-ə; likely from Khoikhoi (also known as Khoekhoegowab/Namagowab or Hottentot language) word Karo (Korana for 'hard, dry, desert')) is a semidesert natural region of South Africa.

Saguia el-Hamra or Sakia el Hamra (Spanish: Saguía el Hamra [saˈɣia el ˈxamɾa] , Arabic: الساقية الحمراء, romanized: al-Sāqiyah al-Ḥamrāʾ, lit. 'Red Canal') is the northern geographic region of Western Sahara.

Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve ("May Valley") is a nature park and UNESCO World Heritage Site on the island of Praslin, Seychelles.

It spans the modern-day countries of Nigeria, Benin and Togo, and covers a total land area of 142,114 km2 (54,871 sq mi).

The Slave Coast is a historical region along the Atlantic coast of West Africa, encompassing parts of modern-day Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.

It extends from Senegal to Ethiopia, and the primary cause of meningitis in the belt is Neisseria meningitidis.

region: Africa