Statistics for African Geography by Letter - W

Click here to take the quiz!

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Capital of Namibia	Windhoek	100%
Territory disputed between Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	Western Sahara	91%
International sports tournament held in South Africa in 2010	World Cup	79%
Large antelope that stampeded in the Lion King	wildebeest	71%
One of the two main tributaries on the Nile, which flows from Lake Victoria in Uganda to Khartoum, Sudan	White Nile	65%
Wild pig native to sub-Saharan Africa	warthog	62%
Arabic term for a river bed that contains water only after rain	wadi	56%
Province of South Africa that Cape Town is located in	Western Cape	52%
Most widely spoken language in Senegal	Wolof	47%
Coastal city in Namibia that was part of South Africa until 1993	Walvis Bay	44%
Former spelling of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso	Wagadugu	39%
City with a metro area of 1 million in southern Nigeria	Warri	23%
Currency of Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo	West African CFA franc	18%
Name for administrative divisions in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Tanzania, and Tunisia	wilaya	14%
Region in eastern Ghana with a separatist movement	Western Togoland	12%
Subnational kingdom in western Kenya that was formerly a pre-colonial empire	Wanga Kingdom	8%
Historic town in the Hirshabelle region of Somalia	Warsheikh	8%
Mountain in northern South Africa	Waterberg	8%
Former sultanate in what is now coastal Kenya from 1810-1923	Wituland	8%
Islamic nation that existed from 1878-1898 in what is now Guinea, the Ivory Coast, Mali, and Sierra Leone	Wassoulou Empire	6%