Africa

Algeria Google Maps

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Algeria

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Algeria (DZ). Explore satellite imagery of Algiers, the capital city of Algeria, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Algeria (GPS: 28 00 N, 3 00 E) located in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Morocco and Tunisia. The country’s area measurements are total: 2,381,741 sq km; land: 2,381,741 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly less than 3.5 times the size of Texas. The total irrigated land is 5,700 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Algeria: Largest country in Africa but 80% desert. Canyons and caves in the southern Hoggar Mountains and the barren Tassili n’Ajjer area in the southeast of the country contain numerous examples of prehistoric art-rock paintings and carvings depicting human activities and wild and domestic animals (elephants, giraffes, cattle) – that date to the African Humid Period, roughly 11,000 to 5,000 years ago when the region completely vegetated.

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Angola Google Maps

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Angola

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Angola (AO). Explore satellite imagery of Luanda, the capital city of Angola, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Angola (GPS: 12 30 S, 18 30 E) located in Southern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Namibia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The country’s area measurements are total: 1,246,700 sq km; land: 1,246,700 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly less than twice the size of Texas. The total irrigated land is 860 sq km (2012).

One of Angola’s essential features: The province of Cabinda is an exclamation, separated from the country’s rest by the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Benin Google Maps

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Benin

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Benin (BN). Explore satellite imagery of Porto-Novo, the capital city of Benin, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Benin (GPS: 9 30 N, 2 15 E) located in Western Africa, bordering the Bight of Benin, between Nigeria and Togo. The country’s area measurements are total: 112,622 sq km; land: 110,622 sq km, water: 2,000 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than Pennsylvania. The total irrigated land is 230 sq km (2012).

Benin’s essential features: Sandbanks create difficult access to the coast with no natural harbors, river mouths, or islands.

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Botswana Google Maps

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Botswana

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Botswana (BW). Explore satellite imagery of Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Botswana (GPS: 22 00 S, 24 00 E) is located in Southern Africa, north of South Africa. The country’s area measurements are total: 581,730 sq km; land: 566,730 sq km, water: 15,000 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than Texas. The total irrigated land is 20 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Botswana: Landlocked – enclosed or nearly enclosed by land. Population concentrated in the eastern part of the country.

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Burkina Faso Google Maps

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Burkina Faso

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Burkina Faso (BF). Explore satellite imagery of Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Burkina Faso (GPS: 13 00 N, 2 00 W) located in Western Africa, north of Ghana. The country’s area measurements are total: 274,200 sq km; land: 273,800 sq km, water: 400 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly larger than Colorado. The total irrigated land is 550 sq km (2012).

One of the important features of Burkina Faso: Landlocked savanna cut by the three principal rivers of the Black, Red, and White Voltas.

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Burundi Google Maps

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Burundi

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Burundi (BY). Explore satellite imagery of Bujumbura, the capital city of Burundi, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Burundi (GPS: 3 30 S, 30 00 E) located in Central Africa, east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, west of Tanzania. The country’s area measurements are total: 27,830 sq km; land: 25,680 sq km, water: 2,150 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than Maryland. The total irrigated land is 230 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Burundi: Landlocked (enclosed or nearly enclosed by land). Straddles crest of the Nile-Congo watershed. The Kagera, which drains into Lake Victoria, is the most remote headstream of the White Nile.

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Cabo Verde Google Maps

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Cabo Verde

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Cabo Verde (CV). Explore satellite imagery of Praia, the capital city of Cabo Verde, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Cabo Verde (GPS: 16 00 N, 24 00 W) is located in Western Africa, a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Senegal. The country’s area measurements are total: 4,033 sq km; land: 4,033 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly larger than Rhode Island. The total irrigated land is 35 sq km (2012).

One of the important features of Cabo Verde: Strategic location 500 km from the west coast of Africa near major north-south sea routes. Important communications station. Important sea and air refueling site.

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Cameroon Google Maps

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Cameroon

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Cameroon (CM). Explore satellite imagery of Yaounde, the capital city of Cameroon, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Cameroon (GPS: 6 00 N, 12 00 E) located in Central Africa, bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria. The country’s area measurements are total: 475,440 sq km; land: 472,710 sq km, water: 2,730 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly larger than California. The total irrigated land is 290 sq km (2012).

One of Cameroon’s important features: Sometimes referred to as the hinge of Africa because of its central location on the continent and its position at the west-south juncture of the Gulf of Guinea. Throughout the country, there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity. Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan West Africa, is an active volcano.

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Central African Republic Google Maps

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The central African Republic

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Central African Republic (CF). Explore satellite imagery of Bangui, the capital city of the Central African Republic, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Central African Republic (GPS: 7 00 N, 21 00 E) is located in Central Africa, north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The country’s area measurements are total: 622,984 sq km; land: 622,984 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than Texas. The total irrigated land is 10 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of the Central African Republic: Landlocked (enclosed or nearly enclosed by land). Almost the precise center of Africa.

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Chad Google Maps

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Chad

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Chad (CD). Explore satellite imagery of N’Djamena, the capital city of Chad, on the Google Maps of Africa below.

Chad (GPS: 15 00 N, 19 00 E) located in Central Africa, south of Libya. The country’s area measurements are total: 1.284 million sq km; land: 1,259,200 sq km, water: 24,800 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly more than three times the size of California. The total irrigated land is 300 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Chad: Chad is the largest of Africa’s 16 landlocked countries. Not long ago – geologically speaking – what is today the Sahara was green savannah teeming with wildlife. During the African Humid Period, roughly 11,000 to 5,000 years ago, a vibrant animal community, including elephants, giraffes, hippos, and antelope, lived there. The last remnant of the “Green Sahara” exists in the Lakes of Ounianga (oo-nee-ahn-ga) in northern Chad, a series of 18 interconnected freshwater, saline, and hypersaline lakes now protected as a World Heritage site.

Lake Chad, the most significant water body in the Sahel, is a remnant of a former inland sea, paleolake Mega-Chad. At its greatest extent, sometime before 5000 B.C., Lake Mega-Chad was the largest of four Saharan paleolakes that existed during the African Humid Period. It covered an area of about 400,000 sq km (150,000 sq mi), roughly the size of today’s Caspian Sea.

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