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09th September 2010
Savannas are grassland habitats that consist of trees either being small or wildly spaced living large unfilled gaps that can never form a canopy. Lack of canopy allows the areas to access more light and support a lot of wildlife especially the herbivor...
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09th September 2010
Chatham Islands are found in a place called Morioriin, New Zealand territory in the Pacific Ocean. The islands consist of 10 islands that are within an area 40 kilometres. The largest of the islands include the Chatham and Pitt. The island though very r...
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09th September 2010
Mozambique is country located on the southeastern part of Africa. It’s bordered by the Indian Ocean to the East and Tanzania to the north and Malawi and Zambia to the northwest. The country is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and Community of Portu...
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09th September 2010
Africa is the second largest continent and the second most popular in the world after Asia. According to a report released in 2009, it has around 1 billion people and accounts for 14.72 of the world’s human population. It covers 6% of the Earths total sur...
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09th September 2010
Lake Malawi is one of African Great Lakes and the third largest in Africa. It’s the eighth largest lake in the world and it’s located in Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. It’s the second deepest lake in Africa and it’s a habitat for more aquatic life like ...
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09th September 2010
Tanzania is found in Central East Africa and her neighbors include Kenya and Uganda. To the north stands Rwanda and Burundi, to the north looms Zambia and Malawi and Mozambique to the south. The country is composed of 26 regions and the current president ...
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09th September 2010
Mediterranean Sea connects with the Atlantic Ocean and it’s surrounded by the Mediterranean region. It covers approximately 2.5 million km2 or 965,000 square miles. The word Mediterranean is derived from the Latin word Mediterranean meaning ‘an inland’ or...
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09th September 2010
Suez Canal is the largest man-made artificial sea-level waterway found in Egypt. It was opened in the 1869 to allow water transportation between Europe and Asia to avoid ships navigation around Africa. The canal original size was 164 km long and 8metre de...
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09th September 2010
Tourism is highly regarded in this country and it’s a major foreign exchange earner. The country has at times received more than 9 million visitors in one year alone. The government projects to have reached a target of 14milion tourists by the year 2011...
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08th September 2010
Uganda takes tourism very seriously. The focus is mainly on landscape and wildlife. The country started her journey in this sector way back in 1960s when visitors started streaming in hundreds of thousands. During that time the sector was the fourth lar...
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08th September 2010
Hippopotamus or hippos are usually very large mammals found in sub-Saharan Africa. They are the fourth largest mammals after the whale, elephant and the White rhinoceros. The word hippo comes from the ancient Greek meaning ‘river horse’. They have anoth...
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08th September 2010
Kenya lies along the India Ocean in the East African region. It’s bordered by Somalia to the northeast, Ethiopia to the North and Sudan to the northwest. Other neighbors are Uganda to the west and Tanzania to the south. The country is greatly known for he...
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08th September 2010
Kenya has three sectors that are to be hailed for being the backbone of the economy. They include tourism, agriculture, industry and manufacturing. Tourism has been the biggest boost and contributes more than 67 percent of the GDP. The sector that has ...
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08th September 2010
Lake Natron is found in Tanzania and it’s very close to the Kenyan border. It’s a salt water lake that is located on the eastern side of the Great Rift Valley. The lake is fed by a river known as Ewaso Ng’iro and mineral rich hot springs that drain down...
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08th September 2010
Kruger National Park is found in South Africa. It’s one of the biggest game reserves in Africa and covers 18,989 square kilometres and covers 360 kilometres from north to south and 65 kilometres from east to west. Its also part of what is now known as t...
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