African Geography by Letter - X

Can you guess these African geography-related answers that begin with the letter X? Probably not, because X is a rare letter so a lot of these are very obscure

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Official language in South Africa and Zimbabwe	Xhosa
City in southern Mozambique with a population of 116,000	Xai-Xai
Small town in the Mudug region of Somalia	Xerojaale
Genus of plant native to East and Southern Africa that produces a fruit known as the sourplum	Ximenia
The unstriped ground squirrel, native to East Africa, is the only member of this genus	Xerus
Tribe of ground squirrels including the above, as well as others native to Africa	Xerini
District in the Free State of South Africa	Xhariep
Town of 70,000 in southern Angola	Xangongo
Town of 68,000 in northern Angola	Xá-Muteba
5th century BC Persian king whose empire included Egypt	Xerxes I

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Rare-earth phosphate mineral, the major component of it is yttrium, found in Madagascar and Namibia as well as places outside Africa	xenotime
Sulfosalt mineral found in Morocco	xanthoconite
Mountain in Eastern Cape, South Africa	Xolora
Small river in Eastern Cape, South Africa	Xabane
Somali name for Hafun, the town in Somalia which is the easternmost point of continental Africa	Xaafuun
Safari camp on the Okavango Delta in Botswana	Xakanaxa
Small town in Limpopo, South Africa	Xanthia
Genus of swordfish, which live in oceans throughout the world, including of the coast of Africa	xiphias
Small asteroid discovered by South African astronomer Cyril Jackson and named after a South African ethnic group	1506 Xosa
Common name of the binary star Mu1 Scorpii, meaning "the eyes if the lion" in the southern African Khoekhoe language	Xamidimura