That's Africa! Trivia Quiz

One of the Ancient Wonders of the World, the Great Pyramids of Giza sit on the Giza Plateau overlooking the Egyptian capital city, Cairo. Built in the 26th century B.C., these massive landmarks are part of one of the oldest and most fascinating civilizations on the planet, and they're right next to the Sphinx. For nearly four thousand years, the pyramids here were the tallest buildings ever built.

A country on the far west coast of Africa, Morocco is known for its deserts, mountains, and coastal cities. Only a short boat ride south of Europe, it sits right next to the Sahara and is one of Africa's most popular places to visit. Though its capital city is Rabat, you probably know it better for its other locations (including Casablanca, Marrakesh, and Tangier).

The city of Cape Town, South Africa is one of the country's three capitals (the others being Bloemfontein and Pretoria). One of the southernmost cities on the continent, Cape Town is home to the flat-topped Table Mountain and is a short drive away from beautiful natural wilderness, wineries, and nature reserves that contain safari animals.

The world's biggest desert, the Sahara reaches across most of Northern Africa and covers most of eleven different countries. Extremely hot and always dry, the Sahara is a difficult place to visit, let alone cross, because not many people live in it. It makes up nearly one third of the continent and fills more than nine million square kilometres of space-- that's about the same size as the United States!

Though it's now dormant, Mount Kilimanjaro was once a volcano. Today, it's the tallest mountain in all of Africa, rising up nearly six kilometres above Tanzania near the Kenyan border. The mountain was first climbed in 1889; today it's climbed by tens of thousands of people per year.

In the surrounding area, you can also go on safari in the surrounding national parks. The Serengeti isn't far away!

This nation is one of the biggest islands in the world and one of the most interesting since most of the animals that live there (like the ring-tailed lemur) can't be found in the wild anywhere else. Madagascar can be found off the southeast coast of mainland Africa and it broke off from the continent nearly ninety million years ago.

Its capital, Antananarivo, is the highest island capital in the world since it's more than a kilometre above the ocean near the middle of the country.

One of the most populated countries in Africa (second to Nigeria), Ethiopia is unique since it's one of only a handful of landlocked countries, meaning that there's no part of the country that touches the ocean. Six other countries border Ethiopia, and five of them are on the Indian Ocean (or the Red Sea).

The capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, is near the middle of the country in the highlands.

The capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa is home to more people in Africa than nearly any other city on the continent. Sitting on the Congo River, it's right across the bridge from the city of Brazzaville-- another capital city (though of the Republic of the Congo).

The D.R.C. is a big country and most of it is protected national parkland. Many people who live in Kinshasa speak French.

One of the closest African cities to Europe, Tunis is the capital of Tunisia and it sits on the Mediterranean Sea. This makes it an important historical city since, at points in its history, it was inhabited by the Romans, the Spanish, and the French. You can visit Tunis' Medina Quarter, one of the oldest marketplaces in this part of the world, or ride out to Carthage on the coast to look at the historical monuments.

Right on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, Victoria Falls might be one of the most beautiful stretches of waterfalls in the world. Known as 'The Smoke That Thunders', they're created by the Zambezi River as its waters fall into a gorge that makes up the countries' borders.

The Zambezi, which provides water to animals and people across Africa, flows east from here, heading through the lakes of Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique on its way to the Indian Ocean.