Area: 17, 59540 sq. km
Latitude: 19˚ 33˚ - 33˚ 10’N
Population: 5.1 million
Longitude: 9˚ 10’ - 25˚ E
Capital: Tripoli
ZELTEN, DAHRA, DEIDA
· Large oil fields have been opened in these cities.
AZIZIA
· Highest temperature (58˚c) ever recorded in the world.
EGYPT
Area: 10, 01, 450 sq. km
Latitude: 22˚-31˚ 35’N
Population: 68.8 million,
Longitude: 25˚ - 35˚ 40’E
Capital: Cairo
CAIRO
· Situated on the right bank of the river Nile and head of the delta.
· Capital as well as cultural centre of Egypt.
ALEXANDRIA
· Situated on the Nile delta
· The chief port which exports cotton.
PORT SAID
· Situated at northern end of Suez Canal.
SUDAN
Area: 25, 05,815 sq.km
Latitude 3˚40’ - 33˚N
Population: 29.5 million
Longitude: 21˚50’ - 38˚ 30’E
Capital: Khartoum
KHARTOUM
· Situated at the confluence of blue noise and White Nile.
· Capital city of Sudan.
· Administrative centre and the largest town, known as ‘key of Sudan’.
· Great marketing centre of grains, ostrich, feathers, ivory and cotton.
OMDURMAN
· Situated in the north of Khartoum, on the left bank of the Nile.
· The old dervish capital and the largest town of Sudan.
BJIBOUTI
Area: 23,200 sq.km.
Latitude: 10˚55;-12˚45’N
Population: 4, 47,439
Capital: Djibouti
· A country in the horn of Africa is bordered on almost three sides by Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia and looking out on the Red sea and the Gulf of Aden.
ERITREA
Area: 93, 680 sq. km.
Population: 4.1 million
Capital: Asmara
· Former northernmost province of Ethiopia, is now Africa’s 32nd independent nation which is situated on the shore of red sea.
MASSAWA
· Chief port of the country.
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