African geography

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Striped African relative of the horse (5)
  2. 5. A port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the ___ river (8)
  3. 7. An area of ___ ___ between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea (11)
  4. 9. A massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides (plural) (8)
  5. 14. Huge gray animal with a trunk (8)
  6. 15. A republic in eastern Africa (5)
  7. 16. A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (7)

Down

  1. 1. The world's longest river (4)
  2. 2. A branch that flows into the main stream (9)
  3. 3. An area of ___ ___ between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea (10)
  4. 6. A readily salable ___ that is grown and gathered for the market (8)
  5. 8. Dry land with very little rain (6)
  6. 10. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana (8)
  7. 11. A republic in central Africa (5)
  8. 12. Small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes (7)
  9. 13. The world's largest desert in northern Africa (6)