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Tanzania is formed by the united Republic of Tanganyika with a small archipelago consisting of Unguja (Commonly referred to as Zanzibar Island), Pemba and Several small surrounding Islands.In the United Republic of Tanzania the whole republic covers an area of 943,400 km, where as Tanganyika won her Independence on December 9, 1961. And…
Read ThisGeography: Uganda is in East Africa. It is bordered on the west by Congo, on the north by the Sudan, on the east by Kenya, and on the south by Tanzania and Rwanda. The country, which lies across the equator, is divided into three main areas—swampy lowlands, a fertile plateau with wooded hills, and a desert region. Lake Victoria…
Read ThisGeography: Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa, on the coast of the Indian Ocean. It is twice the size of Nevada. Kenya borders Somalia to the east, Ethiopia to the north, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. In the north, the land is arid; the southwest corner is in the fertile Lake…
Read ThisGeography: Rwanda is a landlocked republic in Equatorial Africa, situated on the eastern rim of the Albertine Rift, a western arm of the Great Rift Valley, on the watershed between Africa's two largest river systems: the Nile and the Congo. Much of the country's 26,338 km2 is impressively mountainous, the highest peak being…
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