North Africa
The longest river in the world, it flows through Egypt and Sudan on its way to the Mediterranean.
What is the Nile River
This East African country is home to Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa.
What is Tanzania
This West African nation is the most populous country in all of Africa.
What is Nigeria
This is the second-longest river in Africa and flows through the heart of the Central African rainforest.
What is the Congo River
This Southern African country is home to Table Mountain and the city of Cape Town.
What is South Africa
This North African country is home to the famous city of Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains.
What is Morocco
This East African nation is the only one on the continent never to have been colonized by a European power.
What is Ethiopia
This medieval West African empire grew immensely wealthy under its ruler Mansa Musa, often called the richest man in history.
What was the Mali Empire
This Central African country was known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997.
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This landlocked Southern African country contains the Okavango Delta, a massive inland river delta.
What is Botswana?
These ancient wonders near Cairo were built as tombs for pharaohs over 4,500 years ago.
What are the Pyramids of Giza
This is the largest lake in Africa and the main source of the White Nile.
What is Lake Victoria
This West African country is the world's top producer of cocoa beans.
What is Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
This small island nation off the coast of Central Africa is one of the few African countries where Portuguese is the official language.
What is São Tomé and Príncipe
This Southern African country was known as Rhodesia before gaining independence in 1980.
What is Zimbabwe?
This country fought an eight-year war of independence against France, finally winning freedom in 1962.
What is Algeria
This East African country's capital, Nairobi, is nicknamed the 'Green City in the Sun.'
What is Kenya
Founded in the 1800s partly by freed African-American and Caribbean settlers, this country's capital is Monrovia.
What is Liberia
This landlocked Central African country is named after a large lake that borders it, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon.
What is Chad
This precious gemstone, heavily mined in Botswana and South Africa, has driven both major economic growth and regional conflict.
What are diamonds
This narrow strait separates North Africa from Europe, linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar
This island archipelago off the coast of Tanzania was historically a major center of the spice and slave trade.
What is Zanzibar
This genre of music, pioneered by artists like Fela Kuti, blends Yoruba music, highlife, jazz, and funk.
What is Afrobeat
This vast rainforest spanning much of Central Africa is the second largest tropical rainforest in the world, after the Amazon.
What is the Congo Basin (Congo Rainforest)
This UNESCO World Heritage stone city, built by the Shona people between the 11th and 15th centuries, gave a modern Southern African nation its name.
What is Great Zimbabwe