Category: Africa

Hurghada, Egypt

Hurghada, Egypt Weather and Climate

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...

Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

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...

Agadir, Morocco

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...

Essaouira, Morocco

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...

Marrakech, Morocco

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...

Djerba, Tunisia

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...

Monastir, Tunisia

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...

Cape Town, South Africa

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...

La Réunion, Madagascar

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...

Weather in Africa

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...

Johannesburg, South Africa

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...

Okavango Delta, Botswana

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...

Kruger National Park, South Africa

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...

Marsa Alam, Egypt

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....

Serengeti, Tanzania

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...

Diani Beach, Kenya

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....

Zanzibar, Tanzania

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...

Victoria Falls, Zambia

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...

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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...

Mali

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,...

Niger

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...

Mauritania

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...

Sudan

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...

Chad

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...

Burundi

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...

Burkina Faso

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...

Algeria

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...

Mozambique

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...

Zimbabwe

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...

Namibia

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...