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2. Senegal - Wikipedia

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   Senegal, [e] officially the Republic of Senegal, [f] is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline.Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest.

3. Geography of Niger - Wikipedia

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   The Sahel region is a belt up to 1,000 km wide that spans Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea Recurring droughts are a serious challenge for Niger. [ 9 ] The 2012 Sahel drought , along with failed crops, insect plagues, high food prices and conflicts is currently affecting Niger causing a hunger crisis. [ 10 ]

4. Geography of South Africa - Wikipedia

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   South Africa occupies the southern tip of Africa, its coastline stretching more than 2,850 kilometres (1,770 miles) from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic (western) coast southwards around the tip of Africa and then northeast to the border with Mozambique on the Indian (eastern) coast.

5. Cape Verde - Wikipedia

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   Cape Verde (/ ˈ v ɜːr d (i)/ ⓘ, VURD(-ee)) or Cabo Verde (/ ˌ k ɑː b oʊ ˈ v ɜːr d eɪ / ⓘ KAH-boh VUR-day, / ˌ k æ b oʊ-/ KAB-oh -⁠, Portuguese: [ˈkabu ˈveɾdɨ]), officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square ...

6. Ceuta - Wikipedia

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   The name Abyla has been said to have been a Punic name ("Lofty Mountain" [10] or "Mountain of God") for Jebel Musa, [11] the southern Pillar of Hercules. [12] The name of the mountain was in fact Habenna (Punic: 𐤀𐤁‬𐤍‬, ʾbn, "Stone" or "Stele") or ʾAbin-ḥīq (𐤀𐤁‬𐤍𐤇‬𐤒, ʾbnḥq, "Rock of the Bay"), about the nearby Bay of Benzú. [13]

7. Botswana - Wikipedia

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   Botswana, [c] officially the Republic of Botswana, [d] is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 per cent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert.

8. United Nations geoscheme - Wikipedia

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   22 geographical subregions as defined by the UNSD. Antarctica is not shown.. The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1]

9. Rwanda - Wikipedia

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   Rwanda is linked by road to other countries in the East African Community, namely Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and Kenya, as well as to the eastern Congolese cities of Goma and Bukavu; the country's most important trade route is the road to the port of Mombasa via Kampala and Nairobi, which is known as the Northern Corridor. [221]