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  2. List of rivers of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Kwando - Namibia, also known as Linyanti and Chobe in places. Limpopo - Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana. Luangwa River - Zambia. Mania River - Madagascar. Maputo River - South Africa, Eswatini, Mozambique. Molopo - Botswana, South Africa. Mooi River (Tugela) - South Africa. Mthatha River - South Africa.

  3. Nile - Wikipedia

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    The Nile [b] (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa. It has historically been considered the longest river in the world, [3] [4] though this has been contested by research suggesting that the Amazon River is slightly longer.

  4. North Africa - Wikipedia

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    The population density of Africa as of 2000. North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

  5. Geography of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Satellite view of Africa 1916 physical map of Africa. The average elevation of the continent approximates closely to 600 m (2,000 ft) above sea level, roughly near to the mean elevation of both North and South America, but considerably less than that of Asia, 950 m (3,120 ft). In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively ...

  6. Zambezi - Wikipedia

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    Luena, Lungwebungu, Luanginga, Chobe, Gwayi, Sanyati, Panhane, Luenha. The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers 1,390,000 km 2 (540,000 sq mi), [1][2] slightly less than half ...

  7. Congo River - Wikipedia

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    The Congo River, [a] formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third-largest river in the world by discharge volume, following the Amazon and Ganges rivers. It is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths of around 220 m (720 ft). [10]

  8. Atlas Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Middle Atlas is completely in Morocco and is the northernmost of its three main Atlas ranges. The range lies north of the High Atlas, separated by the Moulouya and Oum Er-Rbia rivers, and south of the Rif mountains, separated by the Sebou River. To the west are the main coastal plains of Morocco with many of the major cities and, to the ...

  9. African Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    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. The series includes Lake Victoria, the second-largest freshwater lake in the world by area; Lake Tanganyika, the world's second-largest freshwater lake by volume ...