Continent

Africa

The United Nations groups Africa into five subregions — Northern, Western, Middle, Eastern and Southern — and Atlas Quest uses that classification throughout.

Source: unstats.un.org

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the Africa label sits at 9.1° N, 23.6° E, in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• Congo Basin — about 1,200 km south
• Congo — about 1,500 km south
• Lake Victoria — about 1,500 km south-east
• Sahara — about 1,900 km north-west

Play with it

• Today’s daily geography challenge — one shared round, playable offline.
• Guess the country by its shape — six guesses, with distance and direction after each.
• Start with easy questions — familiar countries, hints and no time limit.