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Southern Africa
Zambezi River Nations
Indian Ocean Islands
Lakes Region
Horn of Africa/Sudan
100
Eighty percent of Africa's land lies between what two tropics?
Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn
100
What nation is named after the large lake it borders on?
Malawi
100
What nation is made up of about 10 separate islands?
Seychelles
100
What common language of people on the east coast of Africa developed long before European colonialists arrived?
Swahili
100
What is the lowest spot in Africa called?
Denakil Desert
200
Which two leaders, one black and one white, negotiated an end to South Africa's policy of racial segregation?
Nelson Mandela; F.W. de Klerk
200
What British explorer was also a doctor who cared about Africans' souls as well as the land itself?
David Livingstone
200
What nation is renowned for the diversity of its wildlife?
Madagascar
200
Which country is considered the key to East Africa because of its advanced cities?
Kenya
200
Because of its shape, what is the wide Somali Peninsula on the east side of Africa called?
The Horn of Africa
300
Botswana is the world's largest producer of what precious commodity?
Diamonds
300
After whom did Livingstone name the waterfall that he discovered in Zimbabwe?
Queen Victoria (Victoria Falls)
300
What is the capital of Madagascar?
Antananarivo
300
What are the names of the two tribes that were involved in the Rwandan Genocide in 1994?
Hutus and Tutsis
300
Which British explorer, interested in making a fortune at the Africans' expense, wanted to build a railroad from Cape Town to Cairo?
Cecil Rhodes
400
Which country surrounds Lesotho?
South Africa
400
What is the capital of Zimbabwe?
Harare
400
What nation is mostly Muslim?
Comoros
400
What is another name for Uganda's Ruwenzori Mountains?
"Mountains of the Moon"
400
Which nation has more pyramids than any other?
Sudan
500
Which country became the major battleground between Cold War superpowers in sub-Saharan Africa?
Angola
500
Name the capitals of these three nations in order: Zambia, Mozambique, Swaziland
Lusaka, Maputo, Mbabane
500
What is the capital of Seychelles?
Victoria
500
Name the capitals of these countries in order: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
Bujumbura, Nairobi, Kigali, Kampala
500
What year was the world's youngest nation (South Sudan) formed?
2011