North Africa
This North African country has the largest land area on the continent.
What is Algeria?
This country at the southern tip of Africa has three capital cities.
What is South Africa?
Nigeria is divided into 36 states and shares borders with four countries. Name two of them.
What is Benin, Niger, Chad, or Cameroon?
Kenya and Tanzania share a border that cuts through this world-famous national park and wildlife ecosystem.
What is the The Serengeti/Maasai Mara?
The Democratic Republic of Congo shares its name with a neighboring country. What is that country's capital city?
What is Brazzaville (Republic of Congo)?
Egypt shares its eastern border with this small country that connects Africa to Asia.
What is Palestine?
The tiny landlocked country completely surrounded by South Africa is called this.
What is Lesotho?
Mali was once home to one of the wealthiest empires in history. This emperor of the Mali Empire, famous for his extravagant pilgrimage to Mecca, is considered one of the richest people in history.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Djibouti is a small East African nation bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia, and this country across the Gulf of Aden.
What is Somalia?
Gabon is one of the most forested countries in Africa. Its national animal, also on its flag, is this large black-and-grey cat.
What is the black panther?
Morocco is the only African country that is NOT a member of this continental political union.
What is The African Union (AU)?
Botswana is landlocked and borders four countries. Name three of them.
What is South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, or Zambia?
This West African country was the first in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from colonial rule, in 1957.
What is Ghana?
This country is bordered by Kenya and Rwanda, becoming independent in 1962.
What is Uganda?
The Central African Republic is landlocked and has no railway system. It borders six countries — name three.
What is Chad, Sudan, DRC, Republic of Congo, Cameroon, or South Sudan?
The national animal of Egypt, also depicted in ancient hieroglyphics, is this sacred bird.
What is an eagle?
Mozambique is notable for being one of the only national flags in the world to feature this modern object.
What is an AK-47 or a gun?
Burkina Faso's flag is two horizontal stripes — red on top and green on the bottom — with this symbol in the center.
What is a yellow five-pointed star?
Rwanda and Burundi are two small landlocked countries that share a border. Both border this large lake, the second deepest in Africa.
What is Lake Tanganyika?
This Central African island nation in the Gulf of Guinea — made up of two main islands — is the smallest country in Africa by population.
What is São Tomé and/or Príncipe?
Libya shares borders with six countries. Name them.
What is Egypt, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Algeria, Tunisia?
Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) changed its name in 2018. It is landlocked and bordered only by South Africa and this other country.
What is Mozambique?
The national animal of Nigeria is the eagle, but this large, endangered African bird is the national animal of Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).
What is the African fish eagle (or the Beaudouin's snake eagle)?
Somalia has the longest coastline of any country on mainland Africa. It borders the Indian Ocean and this body of water to the north.
What is the Gulf of Aden?
Equatorial Guinea is the only country in Africa whose official language is Spanish. Name one of its two bordering countries.
What is Cameroon or Gabon?