Africa—Political & Physical Map Instructions
Create both a political map and a physical map of Africa. Use pages A18, A 19, 403, & 405 to complete your maps. You will
not be able to label everything by only looking at either the maps in the atlas or the maps in the chapter. The maps must be
neat and legible, and spelling and capitalization must be correct. Follow all instructions given on the blue handout of
instructions regarding map work (i.e. use only black or dark blue ink to label; use only colored pencil to shade/color everything
except for rivers, which may be outlined using blue marker; shade lakes, not just their names, blue; shade plains green; shade
mountains brown; etc.; shade the names of oceans/seas/gulfs/straits, or color all the water in its entirety).
DO NOT ABBREVIATE. DO NOT USE NUMBERS AND A LEGEND TO LABEL SMALL COUNTRIES.
No credit will be given if you do so.
Countries marked with an asterisk—Cape Verde, Mauritius, and Seychelles—are island countries and are not
depicted on the map you are given because they are relatively far from the African coast. Please draw them in
their approximate locations. Including them IS part of the grade.
List of African physical features to label and color
List of African countries to label and color (total=53);
(total=41):
please remember that correct spelling & capitalization
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Atlantic Ocean
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Indian Ocean
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Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Cape Verde*
Central Africa Republic
Chad
Comoros
Cote d’Ivoire
(Ivory Coast)
Democratic Republic
of the Congo
Djibouti
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
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Mauritius*
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Republic of Congo
Rwanda
Sao Tome and
Principe
Senegal
Seychelles*
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan (labeled
for you because it just
declared its
independence in July
2011; you ARE
responsible for
knowing its location)
Sudan
Swaziland
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Western Sahara
(autonomous region of
Morocco; color the same
color as you color
Morocco)
 Zambia
 Zimbabwe
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Mediterranean Sea
Red Sea
Gulf of Aden
Gulf of Guinea
Gulf of Sidra
Strait of Gibraltar
Mozambique Channel
Benue River
Blue Nile River
Congo River
Limpopo River
Niger River
Nile River
Okavango River
Orange River
Senegal River
White Nile River
Zambezi River
Lake Chad
Lake Nasser
Lake Nyasa
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Turkana
Lake Victoria
Victoria Falls (Label with name & mark using the
following symbol: ll )
Kalahari Desert (shade yellow)
Libyan Desert (shade yellow)
Namib Desert (shade yellow)
Sahara Desert (shade yellow)
Ahaggar Mtns. (shade brown)
Atlas Mtns. (shade brown)
Drakensberg (shade brown)
Cape of Good Hope
Cape Gwardafuy (hint: It’s on the Horn of Africa.)
Cape Verde
Congo Basin
Ethiopian Plateau (Ethiopian Highlands)
Great Rift Valley
Horn of Africa