Physical Map of Africa - Size A0-84.1 x 118.9cm - Paper Laminated

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Savannas, or grasslands, cover almost half of Africa, more than 13 million square kilometers (five million square miles). These grasslands make up most of central Africa, beginning south of the Sahara and the Sahel and ending north of the continent's southern tip.

The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert, covering 8.5 million square kilometers (3.3 million square miles), about the size of the South American country of Brazil. Defining Africa's northern bulge, the Sahara makes up 25 percent of the continent.The Bantu Migration was a southeastern movement. Historians do not agree on why Bantu-speaking people moved away from their homes in West Africa’s Niger Delta Basin. They first moved southeast, through the rain forests of Central Africa. Eventually, they migrated to the savannas of the southeastern and southwestern parts of the continent, including what is today Angola and Zambia. Some of the largest, driest, and most menacing deserts are present in Africa. The Sahara Desert in the north of the continent is the largest desert in the world, occupying an area of 9 million square kilometers, which is clearly marked in the map of Africa. That's 90% of the total area of the United States! This and the Kalahari Desert in the south generate giant sand storms that bring much dryness into the surrounding countries. Scholars, scientists, and politicians believe climate change will negatively affect the economic and social well-being of Africa more than any other continent. Rising temperatures have caused precipitation patterns to change, crops to reach the upper limits of heat tolerance, pastoral farmers to spend more time in search of water supplies, and malaria and other diseases to spread throughout the continent. The people of the Kingdom were known as the Sabeans. They ruled the region between the tenth to the sixth century BC. The Sabean society collapse came after the spice route was changed.

These ancestors were the first to develop stone tools, to move out of trees and walk upright, and, most importantly, to explore and migrate. While fossils of Australopithecines and Homo habilis have only been found in Africa, examples of Homo erectus have been found in the Far East, and their tools have been excavated throughout Asia and Europe. This evidence supports the idea that the species of Homo erectus that originated in Africa was the first to successfully migrate and populate the rest of the world. Lakes of the broad type are of moderate depth, the deepest sounding in Lake Victoria being under 90m (300ft). [1]This is the case with the two largest of the type, Tanganyika and Nyasa, the latter with depths of 800m (2,600ft). Greenland (part of the Danish Realm), 2. New Guinea (shared by Indonesia and Papua New Guinea), 3. Borneo (shared by Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia), 4. Madagascar (Madagascar, main island) 5. Baffin Island (Canada) 6. Sumatra (Indonesia) 7. Honshu (Japan), 8. Victoria Island (Canada) 9. Great Britain (United Kingdom) 10. Ellesmere Island (Canada).