Name: ____________________________________________ Hour: _____

Map of Africa
Please label the following countries and physical features on your maps of Africa.
Label the map neatly using a black or blue pen or a pencil.

Countries: Label each country in the list  Label these lines on the POLITICAL MAP
below on the POLITICAL MAP of Africa. Tropic of Cancer
Prime Meridian
Algeria Libya
Angola Madagascar
Benin Malawi
Botswana Mali
Burkina Faso Mauritania
Burundi Morocco Map Assignment Rubric
Cameroon Mozambique
Central African Rep Niger 5 – ALL locations on the map are labeled
Chad Namibia correctly and neatly and are printed in black or
Congo Nigeria blue ink or pencil. Labels are in horizontal
direction. Place names are capitalized and
Dem. Rep. Congo (Zaire) Rwanda spelled correctly. Writing is legible like it would
Djibouti Senegal be in an atlas. (A+)
Egypt Sierra Leone
4 – Most of the locations are labeled correctly.
Equatorial Guinea Somalia
Labels are not neatly readable by the instructor
Eritrea South Africa or are not all in horizontal direction. Place
Ethiopia Sudan names are not capitalized. (B-)
Gabon South Sudan
3 – Assignment is a little more than half
Gambia Swaziland complete. Labels are messy or unreadable by
Ghana Tanzania instructor or are not in horizontal direction.
Guinea Bissau Togo Place names are not spelled correctly. (C-)
Guinea Tunisia
2 – Assignment is poorly attempted or
Ivory Coast Uganda locations are not labeled accurately. (F)
Kenya Zambia
Lesotho Zanzibar Grade: __________
Liberia Zimbabwe Comments:

Extra Credit:
□ Color all locations on each map.
□ Add the following cities, mark with •
Cairo Alexandria Tripoli
Algiers Abidjan Addis Ababa
Nairobi Cape Town Mogadishu
Khartoum Johannesburg
Africa: Physical
Political Map
Map
 Africa: Physical Map

Equator 0°

 
 Please  label  the  following  physical  features  on  your  map  above:        
Nile  River     Mediterranean  Sea     Kalahari  Desert     Atlas  Mountains      
Congo  River     Mt.  Kilimanjaro       Sahel       Niger  River  
Indian  Ocean     Sahara  Desert       Lake  Tanganyika                                  Cape  of  Good  Hope      
Red  Sea                                    Ethiopian  Highlands     White  Nile     Somali  Peninsula  
Lake  Malawi       Lake  Victoria         Blue  Nile