CCD   Geography 105 - World Regional Geography


Locations Handout  Chapter 9 Sub-Saharan Africa

For the map quiz on Sub Saharan Africa, on an outline map, you should be able to locate:

A. Regions: 

Angola Republic of Congo  Guinea-Bissau Mozambique  South Africa
Benin  Equatorial Guinea Ivory Coast  Namibia  Swaziland 
Botswana Eritrea Kenya Niger Tanzania
Burkina Faso Ethiopia  Lesotho  Nigeria  Togo 
Burundi  Gabon Liberia  Rwanda Uganda 
Cameroon Gambia  Madagascar Senegal  Zaire
Chad  Ghana  Malawi  Sierra Leone Zambia 
The Congo Guinea Mali  Somalia Zimbabwe 

B. Urban Regions  On a map, showing cities as dots, you should be able to locate:

Dar es Salaam Cape Town, S Africa Durban, S Africa Johannesburg Lusaka, Zambia
Accra, Ghana Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Harare, Zimbabwe Kinshasa, Congo  Mombasa, Kenya
Dakar, Senegal Abidjan, Ivory Coast Ibadan, Nigeria Lagos, Nigeria Nairobi, Kenya

C. Physiographic Regions, Mountains, Basins and Plateaus:  

Madagascar Cape of Good Hope  Congo Basin Sahara The Rift Valley
Kalahari Desert Ethiopian Highlands   Sahel Namib Desert Great Escarpment
 

D. Capes, Bays, Gulfs, Lakes, Oceans, and Seas: 

Lake Victoria, Indian Ocean. Atlantic Ocean

E. Rivers, Straits, and Waterways: (for rivers, be able to locate their mouths and know which way they flow).

Niger River, Zaire (Congo) River, Zambezi River, Orange River, Nile River, Blue Nile, White Nile