North Africa
This hot, sandy desert covers much of North Africa and is the largest desert in the world.
Sahara Desert
This country has no official national language but uses Tigrinya, Arabic, and English, and lies along the Red Sea across from Yemen.
Eritrea
This southernmost country on the African continent is known for its three capital cities: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.
South Africa
This West African country is famous for its Jollof rice, Afrobeat music, and the city of Lagos.
Nigeria
This language, spoken widely across Central and Eastern Africa, is used as a unifying regional language.
Swahili
This major river flows through Africa and was essential to ancient civilizations.
Nile River
This Horn of Africa country has one of the longest coastlines on the African mainland and was historically known for its maritime trading cities like Zeila and Mogadishu.
Somalia
This large island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa is famous for its unique wildlife like lemurs.
Madagascar
Mansa Musa, often called the richest person in world history, ruled which West African empire?
Mali
What is the largest country in Central Africa?
Democratic Republic of Congo
This North African country has the Sahara Desert covering most of its land and has Algiers as its capital.
Algeria
This African lake is the second-largest freshwater lake in the world?
Lake Victoria
This massive waterfall on the Zambezi River, called “Mosi-oa-Tunya” or “The Smoke That Thunders,” sits on the Zambia–Zimbabwe border.
Victoria Falls
Nollywood, one of the world’s biggest film industries, is located in which African country?
Nigeria
This Central African country’s flag has a green triangle on the left and a star inside it.
Cameroon
This North African mountain range stretches across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia and is home to the Berber (Amazigh) people.
Atlas Mountains
Which country was the first to adopt Christianity as a state religion (around 330 CE)?
Ethiopia
This South African leader won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize alongside F.W. de Klerk for ending apartheid.
Nelson Mandela
This West African country is known for the kente cloth, a colorful woven fabric.
Ghana
This Central African country is famous for its friendly gorillas and is known as the “Land of a Thousand Hills.”
Rwanda
This ancient coastal city in modern-day Tunisia was once Rome’s biggest rival until it fell in the Punic Wars.
Carthage
This East African country is home to the Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti National Park, and Africa’s highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro.
Tanzania
At over 5,500 feet above sea level, this nation’s capital, Maseru, sits entirely within the borders of South Africa.
Lesotho
The djembe, a hand drum, originated in this West African region.
Guinea (Mali is also acceptable)
This Central African country is known for the Lopé-Okanda Reserve, where savannah meets rainforest, and where ancient rock engravings reveal early human history.
Gabon