Facts About Africa

Interesting Africa Facts - Africa Landforms

• The longest river in the world, the Nile (4,132 miles), is located in Africa.
• Africa has the world's largest
  desert, the Sahara, which is almost the size of the United States.
• Victoria Falls is the largest waterfall in Africa; it is 355 feet high and one mile wide.
• Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain on the continent. It towers over 19,300 feet, which is so tall that glaciers can be found at its summit even though the mountain is near the equator.
• Madagascar is the largest island in Africa and the fourth largest island in the world. It is in the Indian Ocean off the East coast of Africa.

Interesting Africa Facts - The continent

• Africa is the second largest continent on earth, approximately 11.7 million square miles.
• Africa straddles the equator and is the only continent to extend from the northern temperate zone to the southern temperate zone.
• Africa is the hottest continent on earth.
• Sudan is Africa's largest country (968,000 square miles).
• Africa covers 6 percent of the earth's total surface and 20.4 percent of the total land area.
• Cairo is the continents largest city.
• Long before humans were around (the early Mesozoic Era) Africa was joined to the other continents in a massive continent called Pangaea. Over millions of years this huge continent broke apart shaping the world landscape as we know it today.