Statistics for African Geography by Letter - S

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Largest hot desert in the world	Sahara	100%
Country Nelson Mandela was president of	South Africa	100%
Country which gained independence from the above in 2011	South Sudan	100%
Country of which Mogadishu is the capital	Somalia	99%
Arabic-speaking country which was formerly the largest in Africa	Sudan	99%
Canal in Egypt that connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea	Suez Canal	95%
Westernmost country in mainland Africa	Senegal	94%
Island country in the Indian Ocean	Seychelles	94%
Island country in the Atlantic Ocean	Sāo Tomé and Príncipe	93%
Lingua franca of East Africa	Swahili	91%
Former name of Eswatini	Swaziland	89%
Country which was founded as a British colony for freed slaves	Sierra Leone	85%
Unrecognized country which has been de facto independent from the above since 1991	Somaliland	81%
Biogeographic region just south of the above that stretches across Africa and is a transition zone between the desert and the more human regions to the south	Sahel	64%
Official language of Lesotho	Sesotho	64%
Capital of Réunion	Saint-Denis	44%
Largest city on Tenerife	Santa Cruz de Tenerife	36%
Language spoken by the majority of Zimbabweans	Shona	36%
Official language of Botswana	Setswana	31%
Group of uninhabited islands governed by France, but also claimed by the Comoros, Madagascar, and Mauritius	Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean	8%