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  2. East African Rift - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Great Rift Valley - Wikipedia

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    The background map and the locator map are raster images embedded into the SVG file. The term Great Rift Valley is most often used to refer to the valley of the East African Rift , the divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar Triple Junction southward through eastern Africa , and is in the process of splitting the African Plate into ...

  4. East Africa - Wikipedia

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    East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape. Defined in varying scopes, the region is recognized in the United Nations Statistics Division scheme as encompassing 18 sovereign states and 4 territories.

  5. File:Tectonical map of East Africa.png - Wikipedia

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    Tectonical_map_of_East_Africa.png ‎ (454 × 382 pixels, file size: 42 KB, MIME type: image/png) Wikimedia Commons Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. . This geology image could be re-created using vector graphics as an SVG file. This has several advantages; see Commons:Media for cleanup for more information.

  6. East African Plateau - Wikipedia

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    East African Plateau. /  0.027861°S 36.560861°E  / -0.027861; 36.560861. The East African Plateau is a large plateau in the eastern part of central Africa in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Its elevation is mostly between 1000 and 1500 meters. It is subdivided into a number of zones running north and south and consisting in turn of mountain ...

  7. Geography of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Africa. Africa is a continent comprising 63 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth 's surface. [1] Within its regular outline, it comprises an area of 30,368,609 km 2 (11,725,385 sq mi), excluding adjacent islands.

  8. Cartography of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Earliest European maps. The earliest cartographic depictions of Africa are found in early world maps . In classical antiquity, Africa (also Libya) was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe south of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps . The only part of Africa well known in antiquity was the coast ...

  9. Category:Maps of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Maps are also available as part of the Wikimedia Atlas of the World project in the Atlas of Africa. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.

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