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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.
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