- Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia are known as Meghreb countries and the language used in these countries in Berber
- Lake Kariba on Zambezi river is the biggest HEP source in Africa
- Nigeria, Niger and Chad border lake Chad
- Asmara is the capital of Eritrea
- Lake Assad in Djibouti is the deepest point in Africa
- Equator crosses Congo or Zaire river twice
- Stanley and Livinstona falls are on river Congo
- South African Company Escom plans to build a Hydro Electric Project on Congo with capacity twice that of Three Gorges Dam
- Orange river separates South Africa and Namibia
- Limpopo river crosses Tropic of Capricorn twice and it forms the natural boundary between South Africa and Lesotho and Zimbabwe
- Zambezi river forms the boundary between Zimbabwe and Zambia.Victoria Falls is on this river
- Highest recorded temperature ever in Al Aziziya in Libya(58 degree centigrade)
- Bloemfontein is the judicial capital, Pretoria is the administrative capital and Cape Town is the Legislative capital of South Africa
- Dahomey is the earlier name of Benin
- Bushmen is a tribe of Kalahari desert
- Kalahari desert is between Zambezi and Orange river and main part of it is in Botswana
- Ethiopia and Liberia were never colonized
- Wankee is the famous coal mine of Zimbabwe
- Sahara is the single largest stretch of desert
- Algeria is the largest producer of natural gas in Africa.Hassi river mel region.
- Lubumbashi is a famous copper mine of Congo
- Victoria is the largest waterfalls n the world
- Eritrea was taken out of Ethiopia in 1990
- Itury is a rebellious group of Congo
- Hema and Lendu tribes are from Congo
- MONUC is the UN Peacekeeping mission in Congo
- Intermontane plane in Andes is known as Alti Plano
- Yakut is a tribe of Siberia
- Lapps is a tribe of Scandinevia
- Perforated state:A country with another country.Ex: Swaizaland and Lisotho
- Earlier name of Switzerland Helvetia
- Bora is the cold current in Adriatic sea
- Netherlands is the most densely populated European state
- Luxemberg has the highest per capita GDP
- Kasai mine in Zaire is famous for diamond
- Kilauca in Hawaii is the most active volcano in the world
- Lake Carnegie and Lake Disappointment are in Australia
- Haiti was earlier a colony of France
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