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Geography of Angola: Landscapes, highlands, rivers, and climate

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Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a large country in southwestern Africa with diverse and dramatic geography. It ranks as the world’s 22nd-largest country by area, covering approximately 1,246,700 km² (481,400 sq mi)—roughly twice the size of Texas or France.

Location and borders

Angola lies on the western Atlantic coast of Southern Africa, between latitudes 4°22’S and 18°03’S, and longitudes 11°41’E and 24°05’E. Its 1,600–1,650 km (about 1,000 mi) coastline faces the Atlantic Ocean.

Neighbors:

  • Republic of the Congo (northwest, including the Cabinda exclave)
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo (north and northeast)
  • Zambia (southeast)
  • Namibia (south)

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The geography of Algeria

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Algeria, officially the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, is the largest country in Africa and the tenth-largest in the world. It spans approximately 2,381,740 square kilometers (919,590 square miles), with more than 80% consisting of desert. Located in North Africa, it forms a key part of the Maghreb region.

A striking desert landscape unfolds under a vast, clear blue sky with faint wisps of clouds, dominated by a towering, weathered rock formation known as a mushroom rock or pedestal rock that rises prominently from the orange sands like a natural monument in Algeria’s Sahara Desert, its base broad and … Continue

The geography of Africa

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Africa is the world’s second-largest continent (after Asia), covering approximately 30.37 million square kilometers (about 11.7 million square miles), or roughly 20% of Earth’s total land surface. It stretches approximately 8,000 km (5,000 miles) from north to south and 7,400 km (4,600 miles) from east to west. The continent is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its northernmost point is near Cape Blanc in Tunisia, its southernmost at Cape Agulhas in South Africa, its easternmost at Cape Guardafui in Somalia, and its … Continue