Let’s get back to my geographic rabbit hole.
We’re all mostly stuck at home, so I thought I would go traveling with my blog. Each day this week, I’m going to explore a different continent. There are now eight continents, but I’m going to cover the traditional seven. Perhaps later, I’ll explain why we added another one.
Today we are traveling south to Africa, a continent I hope to visit someday. I really want to see Morocco and it would be awesome to explore the pyramids, too.
I’m getting my information from kids-world-travel-guide.com. Let’s explore!
Africa Facts:
- There are 54 countries in Africa and it has 15% of the world’s population
- The largest country by area is Algeria. Nigeria is the largest by population with 185 million people but is only one third the size of Algeria
- The smallest country on the Africa continent is Seychelles, an archipelago off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. The smallest mainland country is The Gambia
- The largest city is Lagos in Nigeria with more than 21 million people
- The biggest island is Madagascar in the Indian Ocean
- The highest point on the African continent is Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania at 19,340 feet
- The lowest point is Lake Assal in Djibouti at 509 feet below sea level
- Lake Victoria is the biggest lake in Africa. It borders Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya
- There are sixteen landlocked countries in Africa