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The African Great Lakes system, (in blue) Map of larger region including the East African Rift and the entire so-called Great Rift Valley. The African Great Lakes (Swahili: Maziwa Makuu; Kinyarwanda: Ibiyaga bigari) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.
Satellite image of African Great Lakes region African Great Lakes Kingdoms, c.1880. The African Great Lakes kingdoms refers to the numerous historic kingdoms in the African Great Lakes region. These polities existed sometime between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries as independent kingdoms, and had similar and yet sometimes distinct ...
Former capital Great Lakes Region: Dar es Salaam Tanzania: 8,383,728 2022 [6] Former Capital Great Lakes Region: Dire Dawa Ethiopia: 607,321 2008 [citation needed] Horn of Africa: Djibouti City Djibouti: 475,322 2009 Capital Horn of Africa: Dodoma Tanzania: 410,956 2012 Capital Great Lakes Region: Gitega Burundi: 125,989 2019 [7] Capital Great ...
Anglophone Africa includes five countries in West Africa (The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and the most populous African country Nigeria, as well as a part of Cameroon) that are separated by Francophone countries, South Sudan, and a large continuous area in Southern Africa and the African Great Lakes. Arabophone Africa includes the ...
Rwanda is located in Central/Eastern Africa, and is bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, Uganda to the north, Tanzania to the east, and Burundi to the south. [72] It lies a few degrees south of the equator and is landlocked. [132] The capital, Kigali, is located near the centre of Rwanda. [133]
Tanzania, [c] officially the United Republic of Tanzania, [d] is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.
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There were many kingdoms and empires in all regions of the continent of Africa throughout history. A kingdom is a state with a king or queen as its head. [1] An empire is a political unit made up of several territories, military outposts, and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant centre and subordinate peripheries".