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Amman. Map of the Middle East between North Africa, Southern Europe, Central Asia, and Southern Asia. Middle East map of Köppen climate classification. The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology ] [note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
The Maasai ( / ˈmɑːsaɪ, mɑːˈsaɪ /; [3] [4] Swahili: Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region. [5] The Maasai speak the Maa language (ɔl Maa), [5] a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer ...
The East African shilling was the sterling unit of account in British -controlled areas of East Africa from 1921 until 1969. [1] It was issued by the East African Currency Board. It is also the proposed name for a common currency that the East African Community plans to introduce. The shilling was divided into 100 cents, and twenty shillings ...
The EastAfrican is a weekly newspaper published in Kenya since 7 November 1994 by the Nation Media Group, which also publishes Kenya's national Daily Nation. [1] The EastAfrican also circulates in the other countries of the African Great Lakes region, including Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. [2] It contains stories and in-depth analysis from each ...
The World Today is the BBC's flagship international news programme. As well as acting as the flagship evening news programme for the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, its also disturbed by PBS station WETA in the United States.
Africa's largest country is Algeria, and its smallest country is Seychelles, an archipelago off the east coast. The smallest nation on the continental mainland is The Gambia. African plate Today, the African Plate is moving over Earth's surface at a speed of 0.292° ± 0.007° per million years, relative to the "average" Earth (NNR-MORVEL56)
A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian Plate and two parts of the African Plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...
Hospitals in sovereign states of Africa Country (Healthcare link) List of hospitals Category (# articles) # medical facilities Population (1,000) Algeria: List 313: 43,000 Angola: List 1,575 24,383 Benin: List 819 10,009 Botswana: List 624 2,025 Burkina Faso: List 1,721 18,451 Burundi: List 665 9,824 Cameroon: List 3,061 21,918