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The Africa Map Quiz
Twenty countries on the map of Africa, from the Mediterranean to the Cape. Each answer comes with the capital and one fact worth knowing.
- 20 questions
- About 7 minutes
- Medium
- Every question is a map
About this quiz
The quiz covers twenty of Africa's 54 countries, from the giants of the north and the Congo to small states like Rwanda and The Gambia. Each explanation gives the capital and one story about the country, from a medieval king's gold to a flag with a rifle on it.
Most people find the big countries and the coasts easy. The hard part is West Africa and the south, where neighbors of similar size sit side by side and colonial borders run in straight lines.
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Blog
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A third of Africa's borders are straight lines drawn by Europeans who never visited. Those lines still split peoples and fuel conflicts today.
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Encyclopedia
Scramble for Africa
The Scramble for Africa was the partition of nearly the entire continent by European powers between 1884 and 1914, redrawing its borders in a generation.
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Encyclopedia
Berlin Conference
The Berlin Conference was a meeting of fourteen nations in 1884-1885 that set the rules European powers used to claim territory in Africa.
