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Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent, being behind Asia.

Africa is called the


Dark Continent because Africa is the last continent that has been discovered, most of the people here are living in
hinterlands far away from the city. Africa is rich on natural resources.

Africa’s Nairobi National Park is a national park in Kenya. The park has a diverse range of habitats and species.
The park has a high diversity of bird species, with up to 500 permanent and migratory species in the park.
Established in 1946, the national park was Kenya's first. It is located approximately 7 kilometers (4 mi) south of
the center of Nairobi, Kenya's capital city, with an electric fence separating the park's wildlife from the metropolis.

Victoria Falls is a waterfall in southern Africa on the Zambezi River at the border
between Zambia and Zimbabwe. David Livingstone, the Scottish missionary and explorer, is believed to have
been the first European to view Victoria Falls on 16 November 1855. Livingstone named his sighting in honor
of Queen Victoria of Britain, but the indigenous Lozi language name, Mosi-oa-Tunya—"The Smoke That
Thunders"—continues in common usage as well. While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the
world, Victoria Falls is classified as the largest, based on its combined width of 1,708 meters (5,604 ft) and height
of 108 meters (354 ft), resulting in the world's largest sheet of falling water.

Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was renamed Lake Victoria after Queen Victoria by the
explorer John Hanning Speke, in his reports—the first Briton to document it. With a surface area of approximately
59,947 square kilometers (23,146 sq mi), Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's
largest tropical lake, and the world's second largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North
America.

The Namib is a coastal desert in southern Africa. The name Namib is of Khoekhoegowab origin and means "vast
place". According to the broadest definition, the Namib stretches for more than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 mi) along
the Atlantic coasts of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa, extending southward from the Carunjamba River in
Angola, through Namibia and to the Olifants River in Western Cape, South Africa.

The East African Rift (EAR) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa. The EAR began developing around
the onset of the Miocene, 22–25 million years ago. In the past it was considered to be part of a larger Great Rift
Valley that extended north to Asia Minor. The rift, a narrow zone, is a developing divergent tectonic plate
boundary where the African Plate is in the process of splitting into two tectonic plates, called the Somali Plate and
the Nubian Plate, at a rate of 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) annually. As extension continues, lithospheric rupture will
occur within 10 million years; the Somali Plate will break off and a new ocean basin will form.
The great Congo River (Kongo: Nzâdi Kôngo; French: Fleuve Congo; Dutch: Stroom Congo; Portuguese: rio
Congo), formerly known as the Zaire River under the Mobutu regime, is the second longest river in Africa, shorter
only than the Nile, as well as the second largest river in the world by discharge volume, following only
the Amazon. It is also the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths in excess of 220 m (720 ft). The
name Congo/Kongo River originates from the Kingdom of Kongo once located on the southern bank of the river.
The Sahara (/səˈhɑːrə/, /səˈhærə/; Arabic: ‫الصحراء الكبرى‬, aṣ-ṣaḥrāʼ al-kubrá, 'the Great Desert') is a desert located
on the African continent. It is the largest hot desert in the world, and the third largest desert overall
after Antarctica and the Arctic. Its area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi) is comparable to the
area of China or the United States.
The Nile River (Arabic: ‫النيل‬, written as al-Nīl; pronounced as an-Nīl) is a major north-flowing river in
northeastern Africa, and is the longest river in Africa and the disputed longest river in the world (Brazilian
government claims that the Amazon River is longer than the Nile). The Nile, which is about 6,650 km
(4,130 mi) long, is an "international" river as its drainage basin covers eleven countries.
The Ituri Rainforest is a rainforest located in the Ituri Province of northeastern Democratic Republic of the
Congo formerly called Zaire. The forest's name derives from the nearby Ituri River which flows through the
rainforest, connecting firstly to the Aruwimi River and finally into the Congo.

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