Talk:Geography of Africa

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• Kirunga might be Birunga Mountains or Virunga Mountains.
• Basso Norok is probably just another name for Lake Rudolf (now Lake Turkana, at least in Kenya).

-- Walt Pohl 04:48, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Current lake names

Many of the lake names have changed somewhat since 1911. Here's a list of the 1911 Brittanica name and the more common modern name:

• Abai - Abaya
• Albert Nyanza - Albert
• Albert Edward - Edward
• Leopold II - Mai-Ndombe
• Tsana - Tana or T'ana

Lake Rudolf and Lake Nyasa are more-usually known as Lake Turkana and Lake Malawi, respectively, but the older names still seem to be in use.

Walt Pohl 04:21, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Who knows this town?

In the WikiProject Wikipedia:Nuttall_Encyclopedia_topics, we hit on the city "Yokuba",

Yokuba is the largest town in Sokoto, in the Lower Soudan, with a large trade in cotton, tobacco, and indigo.

Sokoto is in the WP, but there is no town called Yokuba near it. The source is from 1907, and Google doesn't help much. Thanks--J heisenberg 10:33, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

"remarkably regular outline"?

what is it? call me blind, but i don't see it. further, a google search for the phrase shows the sentence in the article reproduced in lots of phrases but no explanation of what it is. i think the phrase needs to be explained further? is it that the coastline in africa is not as wiggly as those in other continents? -- Doldrums 07:56, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

How many countries?

Africa is a continent comprising 56 countries, representing the largest of the three great southward projections from the main mass of the earth's surface.

The main Africa article says there are 54 countries...personally I recall there being 53 countries. Regardless of whatever the number is, Wikipedia shouldn't contradict itself. --TwilightBat 10:34, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

As per discussions on the Africa talk page: if one includes only territories recognised as independent member states by the UN (which is as good a standard in Wp as any), there are 53 countries. If one includes all/other jurisdictions (as per the table, itself rather based on UN categorisations) – i.e., including Western Sahara (claimed by Morocco), French territories (Reunion and Mayotte), Spanish territories (Canary Islands, Ceuta/Melilla), and extraterritories (Madeira, Saint Helena) – there are 61 territories that comprise Africa. Whichever value is used, I agree there should be consistency throughout.

To that end, I've made editions to this article reflecting the above (and, similarly, to the mentions and area figures in the Africa article). E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 15:16, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Northernmost point?

It says on the Africa article that Cape Blanc in Tunisia is the northernmost point. So why does it say somewhere in Morocco holds that distinction here? --68.249.187.0 10:31, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Andrew Krueger —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.9.89.224 (talk) 20:59, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Westernmost point?

There's an inconsistency in the statement: "Cape Verde, 17°33′22″ W, the westernmost point". Either the link should be to Cap-Vert, Senegal, the westernmost point of the continent, or the coordinates and distance should be updated to reflect the position of the Cape Verde Islands. More detail is provided in the section on Extreme Points, but this first paragraph should be revised to be internally consistent. -IGTaylor (talk) 18:46, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Revision

this articel need a compled revision Lake Rudolf is Lake Turkana now and the Chad Basin has a size of 2,4 Mio. km², the catchment area of the Chari River extent to 650.000 km² and Petermans Mitteilungen from 1890 is a good source for the 19. century are for the 21. Century? i dont know and some other geographical locations are really failurous, Raas Xaafuun is not the eastern Point on Mainland is located on a Island, the Island is shared from Mainland by a Marshland. The Lake Chad is a Lake not a River Basin and in Section Hydrology, where are the Aquifers and large wetland Areas? --Assarhaddon 9:00, 22. June 2011 (UTC)

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A composite satellite image of the geography of Africa, the Earth's second-largest continent, and its adjacent islands. Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea and from much of Asia by the Red Sea, Africa is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez. For geopolitical purposes, the Sinai Peninsula – east of the Suez Canal – is often considered part of Africa, although geographically it belongs in Asia. Africa can be divided into a number of geographic zones: The Atlas Mountains in the north, the Sahara, the coastal plains, and the inner plateaus.Photo: NASA

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Structural Lines?

Does anybody know what the 1911 text is talking about when it refers to structural lines? Does that paragraph serve any purpose? I want to delete it, but I want to understand it first :)

-Vonfraginoff (talk) 09:24, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Lowest point?

Lake Assal is the lowest at the surface but is only 195 meters below sea level at the deepest point. The deepest point of Lake Tanganyika is 697 meters below sea level. It depends on the definition of "lowest" I guess. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_points_of_Earth#Lowest_natural_points lists several versions of "lowest". Maybe this page should do the same?

Geography

Name the major river of Africa their boundaries including the various mountains and their highest peak of measurement 41.191.107.44 (talk) 23:42, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

"Africa can be divided into a number of geographic zones"

This is followed by

• The coastal plains
• The Atlas range

This accounts for maybe 5% of the total landmass. Did someone start making a list and then just run out of energy? · rodii · 21:06, 28 January 2022 (UTC)

History of Africa

How old 92.2.50.43 (talk) 16:53, 20 September 2022 (UTC)