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General Information
Accommodations in
Africa
Books and Maps
Links
Countries
(When you click
on the links of the countries on this list, you will be leaving the
Getting Away site and going to
The Africa Guide. Click
on the country name to go to
The Africa Guide, and
then click on GUIDE that is found in the links at the top of the page. I believe this to be a
very good site, and one that you can depend upon normally being up to
date. However, please remember to return to Getting Away. Thanks, Jim.)
Benin
Burkina Faso
Djibout
Eritrea
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Gambia
Guinea Bissau
Ivory Coast
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Niger
Reunion
Rwanda
St. Helena
Sao Tome and Principle
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
Sudan
Togo
Zaire
Zanzibar
Zimbabwe
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Algeria
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Angola -
Botswana -
Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros and Mayotte
- Congo
- Egypt
Ethiopia -
Ghana -
Guinea
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Kenya -
Lesotho -
Morocco
- Mozambique
Namibia
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- Swaziland
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Tanzania -
Tunisia
- Uganda
- Zambia
If you
are unable to find the country you need on the map,
check the list of countries
at the left. If the country you are looking for is not on the map or under the
list of countries, I have do not yet have information about that country.
Visit Libya
- Libya is a country located in North Africa. It borders the Mediterranean Sea in the north and shares
borders with Egypt to the east, Chad and Niger to the south,
Sudan to the southeast and both Algeria and Tunisia to the
west. Ninety percent of the country is desert and its size makes
it the fourth largest country in Africa. Its capital is Tripoli, with a population of 1.7 million
people. Libya’s total population is 5.7 million people. There are three traditional parts of the country: Fezzan,
Cyrenaica and Tripolitania. Additional information can be
found at
http://www.visitlybia.com.
The
Africa Guide
also has some good information. Click on
Libya
to find out more.
Visit
Madagascar - Madagascar is an island nation on the Indian Ocean
off the southeastern coast of Africa. Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the
world and is singularly the home of more than five percent of the
world’s plant and animal species, more than eighty percent of which
are endemic to the area. Madagascar was a French colony until 1958.
Additional information can be found at
http://www.visitmada.com
The
Africa Guide
also has some good information. Click on
Madagascar
to find out more.

Click on the satellite picture above for Africa weather information.
For world-wide weather information,
CLICK HERE.
Posters and Framed Art for
Africa
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a foreign language. Being able to speak at least some of the language in the
country you are visiting will help you have a better time and enjoy your trip
more. Jim.
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