AFRICA: LOCATION, POSITION, SIZE AND POLITICAL DIVISION

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 37^o N and 35^oS of the equator and 17^oW and 51^oE 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 …