Geographical location Egypt is located in eastern Africa and borders Israel, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and, to the west, Libya. Short for HRG by abbreviationfinder, Hurghada is located in the east of the country on the Red Sea and is an important tourist center. More than a million visitors come to the seaside resort every year,…
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Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Weather and Climate
Geographical location The Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh (German spelling also Sharm el-Sheikh) is located in the South Sinai Governorate and is its administrative seat. The place extends at the southern end of the Sinai Peninsula from the Strait of Tiran to the Gulf of Suez. The “City of Peace” is divided into Sharm El…
Agadir, Morocco Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to abbreviationfinder, Agadir is an emerging tourist region in the south of Morocco. The old port city lies directly on the Atlantic and has a long sandy beach, on whose promenade several high-class hotels have been settled in recent years. The city, which was once founded by Portuguese sailors, is now home…
Essaouira, Morocco Weather and Climate
General & Geography According to abbreviationfinder, Essaouira is a port city in Morocco. It is located about 200 kilometers north of Agadir and almost 400 kilometers south of Casablanca on the Atlantic coast and is an insider tip for Morocco tourists. Until independence in 1956, the city was called Mogador. Today one of the islands…
Marrakech, Morocco Weather and Climate
General & Geography Short for RAK by abbreviationfinder, Marrakech is an important city in the African state of Morocco. It is the fourth largest city in the country. Marrakech is the capital of the Tensift-El Haouz economic region and the most important of all former imperial cities. Berbers lived in this city in the Neolithic…
Djerba, Tunisia Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to abbreviationfinder, the popular island of Djerba is located off the east coast of Tunisia, directly on the Gulf of Gabès in the Mediterranean. Around 125,000 locals live here on an area of 514 square kilometers, and tourism is the most important industry. The official currency on Djerba is the Tunisian dinar,…
Monastir, Tunisia Weather and Climate
Geographical location Short for MIR by abbreviationfinder, Monastir is a city on the east coast of Tunisia. The Tunisian coastal city is located in the south of the Gulf of Hammamet and has been one of the most popular holiday destinations in North Africa for years. In addition to the beautiful beaches and a very…
Cape Town, South Africa Weather and Climate
General and geography According to abbreviationfinder, Cape Town is the second largest city in South Africa and one of the most popular travel cities in the world. According to current statistics, the metropolitan region in the Western Cape is home to around 3.9 million people. As the first city to be founded during the Dutch…
La Réunion, Madagascar Weather and Climate
General & Geography According to abbreviationfinder, La Réunion is an island in the Indian Ocean and, together with the neighboring Mauritius and Rodrigues, belongs to the Mascarene archipelago. Madagascar, the second largest island nation in the world, is located around 720 kilometers west of Réunion. Politically, La Réunion is a so-called overseas department of France,…
Climate and Weather in Africa
Africa is the third continent in the world by geographical extension. It is bordered to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and Asia through the Suez Canal. Although it has a total area of 30,272,922 square kilometers (621,600 in island mass), which represents 22% of the…
Johannesburg, South Africa Weather and Climate
General & Geography With around one million inhabitants, Johannesburg is the largest city in South Africa and the metropolitan area is home to more than 4.5 million people according to abbreviationfinder. However, the capital of South Africa is Pretoria, which is about 55 kilometers north. Nevertheless, Johannesburg (nickname: Joburg, less often Jozi) is something like…
Okavango Delta, Botswana Weather and Climate
Background knowledge and geographic location According to abbreviationfinder, the Okavango Delta in north-west Botswana is a gigantic labyrinth of canals, islands and foothills of the Okavango River. The inland delta seeps into the basin of the otherwise very dry Kalahari, making it the lifeline of one of the best safari areas on earth. Due to…
Kruger National Park, South Africa Weather and Climate
General & Geography According to abbreviationfinder, the Kruger National Park in South Africa is the most famous and largest game reserve in the country. The approximately 20,000 square kilometer area runs through the Limpopo and Mpumalanga regions; it borders the neighboring state of Mozambique along the entire east side. The extension from the southernmost to…
Marsa Alam, Egypt Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to abbreviationfinder, the small town of Marsa Alam, located on the Red Sea in Egypt, is a resort with around 2000 permanent residents, known for its sandy beaches and coral reefs. The city is located around 270 kilometers south of Hurghada, 220 kilometers east of Edfu. Marsa Alam has had its own…
Serengeti, Tanzania Weather and Climate
General & Geography According to abbreviationfinder, the Serengeti is an animal-rich savannah area in the north of Tanzania and is usually described by experts in the same breath as the Okavango Delta as the best safari area in Africa. The reserve extends over an area of more than 30,000 square kilometers to the south of…
Diani Beach, Kenya Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to abbreviationfinder, Diani Beach is a 15-kilometer-long stretch of beach in Kenya that borders the coastal town of Ukunda and is around 30 kilometers south of the port city of Mombasa. Diani itself was originally a small fishing village, which has been increasingly developed for tourism since the 1970s and today has…
Zanzibar, Tanzania Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to abbreviationfinder, Zanzibar is a group of islands off the mainland of Tanzania and has the status of a semi-autonomous state. This means that the former British protectorate of Zanzibar still enjoys a special status in Tanzania today. Zanzibar has its own government, president and parliament. After several revolts as a result…
Victoria Falls, Zambia Weather and Climate
General and geographic location Short for VFA by abbreviationfinder, the Victoria Falls are one of the seven natural wonders of our earth and are considered the “largest curtain of water” in the world. The designation as the largest waterfall in the world is always controversial, since depending on the point of view (amount of water,…
Democratic Republic of the Congo Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the second largest country in Africa and at 2,345,410 km², around 6.6 times the size of the Federal Republic of Germany. The country extends between 5º 30 ‘north and 13º 5’ south latitude and between 12º 15 ‘and 31º 15’ east longitude in central Africa…
Mali Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Mali, the official name of the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa and borders on Mauritania in the northwest, Algeria in the north, Niger in the east, Burkina Faso in the southeast, Ivory Coast and Guinea in the south and Senegal in the west. Various maps illustrate the…
Niger Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, the Republic of Niger is a landlocked country and mostly desert and semi-desert; the Sahara makes up a significant proportion of the country’s area. It is bordered by Mali and Burkina Faso in the west, Benin and Nigeria in the south, Chad in the east, and Libya and Algeria in the north….
Mauritania Weather and Climate
With an area of more than 1 million km², according to COUNTRYAAH, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania is almost three times the size of the Federal Republic of Germany and is one of the largest countries in the world (world rank 28). The north-west African state borders the Western Sahara and Algeria in the north…
Sudan Weather and Climate
After the independence of South Sudan, Sudan with its 1,886,068 km² of land area has lost its status of being the largest country in Africa and is now in third place after Algeria and the DR Congo. In addition to its 853 km long coastline to the Red Sea in the north-west of the country,…
Chad Weather and Climate
The word “Chad” means “great water” in the Buduma language. Chad is the “land of great water” and refers to Lake Chad. According to COUNTRYAAH, the Republic of Chad (capital N’Djaména) is with 1,284,000 km² the fifth largest country in Africa (world rank 20). The landlocked country is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan…
Burundi Weather and Climate
Located in east central Africa between 2 and 4 ° south of the equator, Burundi is a landlocked country with no direct access to the sea. According to COUNTRYAAH, the country borders on Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and shares in the…
Burkina Faso Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Inland Burkina Faso is located in the Sudan belt of West Africa and is in the northeast part of the Sahel, where it borders on Niger and Mali . In the north and northwest, the country has a border with Mali that has been disputed in two small wars (1974, 1985) but…
Algeria Weather and Climate
According to COUNTRYAAH, Algeria lies to the north with the Mediterranean Sea (998 km coastline) and borders in the east with Tunisia (965 km border) and Libya (982 km), in the south with Niger (956 km) and Mali (1376 km) and in the west and southwest with Morocco (1559 km) and Mauritania (463 km). Its…
Mozambique Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to COUNTRYAAH, Mozambique is a country in Southeast Africa and borders Tanzania to the north, South Africa and Swaziland to the south, and Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi to the west. The Indian Ocean is located in the east of Mozambique. Numerous rivers flow through the country, the largest of which is known…
Zimbabwe Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to COUNTRYAAH, Zimbabwe is located in southern Africa and is a landlocked country as it has no access to the sea. It borders east and north with Mozambique, south with South Africa and southwest with Botswana. The north-western border is the Zambezi. The entire area of the country can be compared to…
Namibia Weather and Climate
Geographical location According to COUNTRYAAH, Namibia is located in southern Africa and borders the neighboring states of Botswana, South Africa, Zambia and Angola. There is also a natural border with the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast. Namibia, whose name is derived from the famous Namib Desert, had been a German protected area since 1884…