East Africa Geography
This is the longest river in the world, flowing north through East Africa toward the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile River?
This is the most popular language in East Africa, often used by people from different tribes to talk to one another.
What is Swahili?
This is the most common job in East Africa, where people grow crops like corn, coffee, and tea.
What is farming?
This is the most popular sport in East Africa; you’ll see kids and adults playing it in almost every village and city.
What is soccer (or football)?
This is the term for a group of people who share a common language, culture, and ancestors, such as the Kikuyu or the Zulu.
What is an ethnic group?
This "roof of Africa" is the continent's highest mountain and is located in Tanzania.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
This famous group of people in Kenya and Tanzania are known for being tall, wearing bright red robes, and being skilled herders.
Who are the Maasai?
Many people in East Africa earn money by showing this to visitors: the amazing wild animals like lions and elephants.
What is tourism (or safaris)?
Because it is very hot, many houses in rural East Africa are built with this material on top to keep the inside cool.
What is grass (or thatch/straw)?
Because many East African countries were once ruled by Great Britain, this European language is still commonly used in schools and government.
What is English?
This large body of water borders East Africa to the east.
What is the Indian Ocean?
Most people in East Africa live in these areas, where they can grow their own food on small farms.
What are rural areas (or countryside)?
East Africans often trade with other countries by sending goods across this large body of water to the east.
What is the Indian Ocean?
This is the main reason many children in East Africa wear uniforms and walk long distances every morning
What is to go to school?
When a country has no coastline and is completely surrounded by land, like Ethiopia or Uganda, it is called this.
What is landlocked?
This huge, flat grassy area is where you would go on a safari to see lions and zebras.
What is the savanna?
In many East African cultures, these are the people you are related to, often living together in large groups or villages.
What are families (or tribes/clans)?
This "wake-up" drink is one of the most important things East Africa grows and sells to the rest of the world.
What is coffee?
In East African culture, music is very important, and this instrument is often played by hand to make a beat for dancing.
What is a drum?
This is a major challenge for many East African farmers when there is not enough rain for a very long time, causing crops to fail.
What is a drought
This large country is shaped like a triangle and is found in the region called the "Horn of Africa."
What is Ethiopia?
With over 120 million people, this is the most populated country in all of East Africa.
What is Ethiopia?
Because many people don't have big banks nearby, many East Africans use these handheld devices to pay for things and send money.
What are cell phones (or mobile phones)?
Many people in East Africa buy their fresh food and clothes at these busy outdoor places instead of big indoor malls.
What are markets?
These are items like coffee, tea, and flowers that East African countries grow and sell to other countries around the world.
What are exports?