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Second largest of the continents, three times
the area of Europe area 30,097,000 sq
km, 11,620,451 sq mi largest cities
(population: over 1 million) Cairo, Algiers,
Lagos, Kinshasa, Abidjan, Cape Town, Nairobi,
Casablanca, El Gîza, Addis Ababa, Luanda, Dar
es Salaam, Ibadan, Douala, Mogadishu features
Great Rift Valley, containing most of the
great lakes of E Africa (except Lake
Victoria); Atlas Mountains in the NW;
Drakensberg mountain range in the SE; Sahara
Desert (world`s largest desert) in the N;
Namib, Kalahari, and Great Karoo deserts in
the S; Nile, Zaïre, Niger, Zambezi, Limpopo,
Volta, and Orange rivers physical dominated
by a uniform central plateau comprising a
southern tableland with a mean altitude of
1,070 m, 3,000 ft that falls northward to a
lower elevated plain with a mean altitude of
400 m, 1,300 ft. Although there are no great
alpine regions or extensive coastal plains,
Africa has a mean altitude of 610 m, 2,000ft,
two times greater than Europe.