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Questions Related to study of africa
Which sea separate the African continent from Asian continent?
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Black sea
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Red sea
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Mediterranean sea
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Arabian sea
Africa is the second largest continent in the world after Asia. Red sea separate the African continent from Asian continent. Red sea is in Indian Ocean. The length of Red sea is 2,250 km and its maximum width is 355 km.
Which country is the largest in area in the continent of Africa?
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Nigeria
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Kenya
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Algeria
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Zimbabwe
Algeria is the biggest country in Africa by land area. Algeria is the largest country in Africa by land area. Africa is the second largest continent in the world and covers 6% of the earth's total surface area.
Which sea separate Africa from Europe?
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Red sea
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Black sea
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Baltic sea
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Mediterranean sea
The Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Suez Canal separate Africa from Asia. The Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar separate Africa from Europe.
Which desert is situated in Africa?
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Thar
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Gobi
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Sahara
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Atacama
Sahara desert is situated in Africa. It is the largest hot desert in the world. It covers an area of 9,200,000 square kilometers.
Which rivers in Africa crosses the Equator twice?
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Zambezi River
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Congo River
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Niger River
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Nile River
The Congo River has a total length of 4,370 km (2,715 mi). It is the only river to cross the equator twice. The Congo Basin has a total area of about 4,000,000 km2 (1,500,000 sq mi), or 13% of the entire African landmass.
What is the latitudinal extent of the continent of Africa?
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$20^0N-30^0S$
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$30^0N-37^0S$
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$37^0N-35^0S$
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$30^0N-50^0S$
Latitudinal Extent of Africa is $37^0N$ to $35^0S$ whereas the longitudinal extent being $51^0E$ to $16^0W$. It is one of the most populated continent. Also it is the second largest continent measuring about 30.3 million km2 with about 54 countries in it and approximately 3000 native languages.
In which river of Africa the Aswan dam is situated?
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Zambezi
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Niger
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Nile
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Ghana
The Great Rift Valley of Africa stretches for a distance of about __________.
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5,000 km
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6,000 km
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7,000 km
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8,000 km
The Great Rift Valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches, approximately 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) in total length, that runs from the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in southeastern Africa.[1] While the name continues in some usages, it is rarely used in Geology nowadays as it is considered an imprecise merging of separate though related rift and fault systems.
Which dam is situated in the river Zambezi?
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Aswan Dam
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Kariba Dam
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Kainji Dam
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Volta river project
Olive, cork, oak, walnut are the trees of which climatic type?
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Tropical desert
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Mediterranean type
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Monsoon type
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China type
Quercus suber, commonly called the cork oak, is a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree in the section Quercus sect. Cerris is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring and as the cores of cricket balls. It is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa.