Second-largest continent (after Asia), straddling the equator and lying largely within the tropics. Land Africa forms a plateau between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Its highest features include the Atlas and Ahaggar mountains in the NW, the Ethiopian Highlands in the E.
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River in central and southeast Africa; length 3,540 km/2,200 mi from northwest Zambia through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean, with a wide delta near Chinde.
In Encyclopedia of World Trade From Ancient Times to the Present Opened in 1869, the Suez Canal connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea through the narrow isthmus linking Africa to the Middle East.
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The Cape of Good Hope is a promontory located near Cape Town, South Africa. There are three promontories at the end of the Cape Peninsula: Cape Point, Cape Maclear and the Cape of Good Hope. The latter is believed by many authors to be the most famous promontory in the world.
Region and former sultanate, W Sudan. Since 2003 the region has been the scene of fighting. An estimated 50,000 persons have died in the fighting, and another 150,000 have died from disease, hunger, and other causes, and the government and janjaweed have been accused by some of genocide.
Triangular peninsula, c.23,000 sq mi (59,570 sq km), NE Egypt. Under the Camp David accords (1978) and Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty (1979), Israel returned virtually the whole of Sinai back to Egypt; the process was completed in 1982.
Africa is the cradle of humanity, and a land born from violent, cataclysmic events. Today, geological evidence is being discovered of events which shaped the Africa we know today and which will, in the future, change it once more.
Africa, Its Geography, People and Products; Africa, Its Place in Modern History by 
In Encyclopedia of World Trade From Ancient Times to the Present