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- Algeria ๐ฉ๐ฟ
- Angola ๐ฆ๐ด
- Ascension Island ๐ธ๐ญ
- Benin ๐ง๐ฏ
- Botswana ๐ง๐ผ
- Burkina Faso ๐ง๐ซ
- Burundi ๐ง๐ฎ
- Cabo Verde ๐จ๐ป
- Cameroon ๐จ๐ฒ
- Canary Islands ๐ฎ๐จ
- Central African Republic ๐จ๐ซ
- Chad ๐น๐ฉ
- Comoros ๐ฐ๐ฒ
- Cรดte d’Ivoire ๐จ๐ฎ
- Democratic Republic of the Congo ๐จ๐ฉ
- Djibouti ๐ฉ๐ฏ
- Egypt ๐ช๐ฌ
- Equatorial Guinea ๐ฌ๐ถ
- Eritrea ๐ช๐ท
- Eswatini ๐ธ๐ฟ
- Ethiopia ๐ช๐น
- Gabon ๐ฌ๐ฆ
- Ghana ๐ฌ๐ญ
- Guinea ๐ฌ๐ณ
- Guinea-Bissau ๐ฌ๐ผ
- Kenya ๐ฐ๐ช
- La Rรฉunion ๐ท๐ช
- Lesotho ๐ฑ๐ธ
- Liberia ๐ฑ๐ท
- Libya ๐ฑ๐พ
- Madagascar ๐ฒ๐ฌ
- Malawi ๐ฒ๐ผ
- Mali ๐ฒ๐ฑ
- Mauritania ๐ฒ๐ท
- Mauritius ๐ฒ๐บ
- Morocco ๐ฒ๐ฆ
- Mozambique ๐ฒ๐ฟ
- Namibia ๐ณ๐ฆ
- Niger ๐ณ๐ช
- Nigeria ๐ณ๐ฌ
- Republic of the Congo ๐จ๐ฌ
- Rwanda ๐ท๐ผ
- Saint Helena ๐ธ๐ญ
- Sรฃo Tomรฉ and Prรญncipe ๐ธ๐น
- Senegal ๐ธ๐ณ
- Seychelles ๐ธ๐จ
- Sierra Leone ๐ธ๐ฑ
- Somalia ๐ธ๐ด
- Somaliland
- South Africa ๐ฟ๐ฆ
- South Sudan ๐ธ๐ธ
- Sudan ๐ธ๐ฉ
- Tanzania ๐น๐ฟ
- The Gambia ๐ฌ๐ฒ
- Togo ๐น๐ฌ
- Tristan da Cunha ๐น๐ฆ
- Tunisia ๐น๐ณ
- Uganda ๐บ๐ฌ
- Western Sahara ๐ช๐ญ
- Zambia ๐ฟ๐ฒ
- Zimbabwe ๐ฟ๐ผ
Travel Notes
- Africa has colourful people, bustling markets, starry nights, utter desert silence, inviting nomads, and modern entrepreneurs. It’s addictive.
- Africa is the second-largest continent, both area and population, after Asia in both cases, with a total surface area of some 30,244,000 kmยฒ (11,700,000 miยฒ) and a population of about 1.34 billion.
- Egypt is considered to be a transcontinental country as a small part of its territory is in Asia, on the other side of the Suez Canal. Politically, Egypt is a member of the African Union.
- The largest African country is Algeria.
- DRC is the second largest country in Africa
- Sudan is the third largest country in Africa
- The smallest is the Seychelles.
- Morocco is in the most popular African tourist destination. This is followed by South Africa, Egypt, and Tunisia.
Geography
- There is but one small landmass connecting the African Mainland with Western Asia.
- The African continent is determined by its surrounding seas. In the north it is separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea. To the northeast, it is separated from Asia by the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. On the east it is surrounded by the Indian Ocean, and the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
Climate
- Africa is the hottest continent. 60% of the entire land surface consists of drylands and deserts.
Map of Trans-African Highways based on data 2000 to 2003
Overland
- Overland travel in all weather is only relatively easy between East and Southern Africa.
- Trans-African Highway Network ยปย Wikipedia Reference ยป More than half of the network has been paved, though maintenance remains a problem. There are numerous missing links in the network where tracks are impassable after rain or hazards.
- Tanzam Highwayย ยป The main link between East Africa and Southern Africa. Leads from Lusaka, Zambia through the DRC, to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Wikipedia Reference
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Last Updated on March 12, 2021