Palestine Weather and Climate
With its 6,025 square kilometers (5,660 square kilometers of the West Bank, 365 square kilometers of the Gaza Strip), Palestine is a little more than twice the size of Saarland, the smallest German state....
Democratic Republic of the Congo Weather and Climate
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...
Iraq Weather and Climate
The state borders of Iraq were determined by influential great and regional powers of the League of Nations (= Great Britain, France, Turkey) in several stages after the First World War. Individual sections of...
Mali Weather and Climate
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...
Cameroon Weather and Climate
“Cameroon appears like a crossroads where the whole black continent seems to meet: the Africa of the rainforest and that of the savannah; the Africa of the Bantu and Sudan peoples; the Africa of...
Kazakhstan Weather and Climate
Kazakhstan is in the center of the Eurasian continent; Europe and Asia are connected there in the truest sense of the word, because the part of the state west of the Ural River belongs...
Niger Weather and Climate
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...
Yemen Weather and Climate
The Republic of Yemen (Arabic الجمهورية اليمنية al-Jumhuriya al-Yemeniya) is located in the extreme southwest of the Arabian Peninsula and is about one and a half times as large as Germany with 527,970 km²...
Mauritania Weather and Climate
With an area of more than 1 million km², 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...
Kosovo Weather and Climate
Kosovo, which has only existed within its current borders since 1945, is located in the center of the Balkan Peninsula, a region also known as Southeastern Europe or the Western Balkans. The state of...
Pakistan Weather and Climate
With around 800,000 square kilometers, Pakistan is twice the size of Germany and Switzerland combined. The country is located in the northwest of the Indo-Pakistani subcontinent and extends from the mountain ranges of the...
Russia Weather and Climate
Russia is located in the eastern part of Europe and in the northern part of Asia and, with an area of 17,098,200 square kilometers, is the largest country in the world. The country extends...
Sierra Leone Weather and Climate
The area of today’s “Sierra Leone” was colonized in the 15th century by the Portuguese who called it the “Lion Mountains” (Serra Lyoa). There are different explanations for the naming. The Portuguese sailors, with...
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...
Syria Weather and Climate
With around 185,000 square kilometers, Syria is roughly half the size of Germany. It is between 32nd and 37th degrees north latitude and 35th and 42nd degrees east longitude in the Middle East. The...
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. The Republic of Chad (capital N’Djaména) is with 1,284,000 km² the fifth...
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. The country borders on Rwanda to the north,...
Burkina Faso Weather and Climate
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,...
Algeria Weather and Climate
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...
Afghanistan Weather and Climate
Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country at the interface of Central and South Asia and covers an area of 652,225 km². For comparison, the Federal Republic of Germany is content with approx. 357,386 km²....
Mozambique Weather and Climate
Geographical location 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...
Zimbabwe Weather and Climate
Geographical location 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...
Okavango Delta Weather and Climate
Background knowledge and geographic location 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...
Swakopmund, Namibia Weather and Climate
Temperatures, precipitation, sunshine Jan Feb March Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Daytime temperature 24 ° C 25 ° C 26 ° C 26 ° C 26 ° C 24 °...
Namibia Weather and Climate
Geographical location 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....
Botswana Weather and Climate
Geographical location The Republic of Botswana (official German spelling Botswana) is a landlocked country in the southwest of the African continent. The country extends over 580,000 square kilometers and is home to only about...
Madagascar Weather and Climate
Geographical location Madagascar is the second largest island nation in the world after Indonesia. The republic is located in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Mozambique. Around 24 million people live in...
Madikwe Weather and Climate
Temperatures, precipitation, sunshine Jan Feb March Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Daytime temperature 32 ° C 31 ° C 30 ° C 27 ° C 24 ° C 22 °...
Pilanesberg National Park Weather and Climate
Temperatures, precipitation, sunshine Jan Feb March Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Daytime temperature 31 ° C 30 ° C 29 ° C 26 ° C 24 ° C 21 °...
Sabi Sands Weather and Climate
Temperatures, precipitation, sunshine Jan Feb March Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Daytime temperature 34 ° C 34 ° C 32 ° C 30 ° C 29 ° C 27 °...