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Expedition · Africa

Expedition #1057

Region
Africa
Level
Medium
Questions
15
Route
51,270 km
  1. Leg 1Name the country · 6
  2. Leg 2Capitals · 4
  3. Leg 3Find the country · 5

This trip through Africa is set at Medium. The 15 questions come in three legs — Name the country (6 questions), then Capitals (4 questions), then Find the country (5 questions) — and visit 15 countries in all.

At the Medium level most of the region is in play and the wrong options are fellow countries of the same continent.

Capital to capital, in question order, the route covers 51,270 km over 14 hops.

Tips from the window seat

After the landing

Finish the third leg and the expedition is stamped in your passport; the button for expedition #1058 appears right under the quiz.

Flight log: stops, route and figures (shows the answers)
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The stops in the order the questions bring them, with the distance from the previous one.

  1. 1BotswanaGaborone
  2. 2MauritaniaNouakchott6,570 km
  3. 3TanzaniaDodoma6,280 km
  4. 4LibyaTripoli4,960 km
  5. 5EgyptCairo1,740 km
  6. 6MozambiqueMaputo6,230 km
  7. 7TogoLomé4,920 km
  8. 8AlgeriaAlgiers3,410 km
  9. 9Sierra LeoneFreetown3,550 km
  10. 10NigerNiamey1,770 km
  11. 11AngolaLuanda2,770 km
  12. 12South SudanJuba2,540 km
  13. 13EritreaAsmara1,420 km
  14. 14Burkina FasoOuagadougou4,370 km
  15. 15Côte d’IvoireYamous­soukro740 km

Capital to capital, the route runs 51,270 km, from Botswana to Côte d’Ivoire. Longest hop: Botswana – Mauritania, 6,570 km. Shortest: Burkina Faso – Côte d’Ivoire, 740 km.

Most people among the stops: Egypt (118 million); fewest: Botswana (2.6 million). Largest: Algeria (2,381,740 km²); smallest: Togo (56,785 km²).

Source: World Bank — population 2025, area 2023.

The stops lie in 5 UN subregions: Eastern Africa, Middle Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa.

Capitals asked on the way: Lomé (Togo), Algiers (Algeria), Freetown (Sierra Leone), Niamey (Niger).

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