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Africa is the 2nd largest continent. It is separated by the Red Sea,  the Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. It has 8 major regions, the Sahara, the rain forest, the African great lakes, southern Africa, the Sahel, the Swahili Coast, the Ethiopian Highlands, and the savanna. The Sahara is the most hot desert in the world. the Sahel is a narrow strip or semi-arid land. savannas cover almost half of Africa. most of the rain forests have been destroyed. So what this means for the people living there is they may have to live in the rain-forest or live in the hottest desert in the world.

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Africa has large amounts of mineral and water assets in most areas.

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Several River basins have wide, deep and navigable deltas leading from the sea. These include the Niger, Zambezi and Congo Rivers

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Lake victoria is the largest lake in Africa.
Lake Volta  in western Africa, is one of the largest man made lake in the world.

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there are lots of rivers and lakes. "the broken landscape makes it impossible to navigate most of the regions from the mouth to source".
pg.512

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great rift valley is the fault system of the SW.