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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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Libya Google Maps

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Libya

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

Libya (GPS: 25 00 N, 17 00 E) located in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt, Tunisia, and Algeria. The country’s area measurements are total: 1,759,540 sq km; land: 1,759,540 sq km, water: 0 sq km. This sovereign state is about 2.5 times the size of Texas, slightly larger than Alaska. The total irrigated land is 4,700 sq km (2012).

One of Libya’s important features: More than 90% of the country is desert or semidesert. The volcano Waw an Namus lies in south-central Libya in the middle of the Sahara. The caldera is an oasis – the name means “oasis of mosquitoes” – containing several small lakes surrounded by vegetation and hosting various insects and a broad diversity of birds.

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Niger Google Maps

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Niger

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

Niger (GPS: 16 00 N, 8 00 E) located in Western Africa, southeast of Algeria. The country’s area measurements are total: 1.267 million sq km; land: 1,266,700 sq km, water: 300 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly less than twice the size of Texas. The total irrigated land is 1,000 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Niger: Landlocked (enclosed or nearly enclosed by land). One of the hottest countries in the world. Northern four-fifths is desert; southern one-fifth is savanna, suitable for livestock and limited agriculture.

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Nigeria Google Maps

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Nigeria

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

Nigeria (GPS: 10 00 N, 8 00 E) located in Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Benin and Cameroon. The country’s area measurements are total: 923,768 sq km; land: 910,768 sq km, water: 13,000 sq km. This sovereign state is about six times the size of Georgia, slightly more than twice the size of California. The total irrigated land is 2,930 sq km (2012).

One of Nigeria’s important features: The Niger River enters the country in the northwest and flows southward through tropical rain forests and swamps to its delta in the Gulf of Guinea.

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Sudan Google Maps

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Sudan

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

Sudan (GPS: 15 00 N, 30 00 E) located in north-eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea. The country’s area measurements are total: 1,861,484 sq km; land: N/A, water: N/A. This sovereign state is slightly less than one-fifth of the size of the US. The total irrigated land is 18,900 sq km (2012).

One of the important features of Sudan: The Nile is Sudan’s primary water source. Its major tributaries, the White Nile and the Blue Nile, meet at Khartoum to form the River Nile, which flows northward through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.

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