AFRICA: LOCATION, POSITION, SIZE AND POLITICAL DIVISION : LSUS
GEOGRAPHY SSS2 THIRD TERM
WEEK – FOUR
AFRICA: LOCATION, POSITION, SIZE AND POLITICAL DIVISION
REFERENCE
Essential Geography for Senior Secondary Schools by O.A. Iwena
AFRICA: LOCATION, POSITION, SIZE AND POLITICAL DIVISION
LOCATION: Africa is located between latitudes 37o N and 35oS of the equator and 17oW and 51oE of the Greenwich Meridian.
POSITION: Africa is the second largest continent in the world after Asia. It is bounded in the north by the Mediterranean sea which separates Africa from Europe, in the south by the Atlantic ocean, in the East by Indian ocean and in the north-east by the Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden which separates Africa from Asia.
SIZE: Africa is the second largest continent in terms of land area after Asia..... View More
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- REVISION/SETTLEMENT INTERACTIONS
- GEO-POLITICAL ISSUES: LAND RECLAMATION
- GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)
- AFRICA: LOCATION, POSITION, SIZE AND POLITICAL DIVISION
- AFRICA: RELIEF AND DRAINAGE
- CLIMATE AND VEGETATION
- LUMBERING IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA (ZAIRE AND NIGERIA)
- IRRIGATION AGRICULTURE IN THE NILE AND NIGER BASIN
- PLANTATION AGRICULTURE IN WEST AND EAST AFRICA
- FRUIT FARMING IN MEDITERRANEAN REGIONS OF AFRICA
- Chapters 10
- Category SSS2
- Author ClassNotes Edu
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