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Rift Valley Countries Water MapsPeople and
Cultures
The Great Rift Valley runs alongwhich side of Africa, East or
West?
The rift valley has been created by the movement of Earth plates
toward or away from each other?
Many of these fill with water along the rift valley as
the Earth separates.
This mountain, Africa’s tallest,
was created from volcanic activity along the rift valley.
Mount Kilimanjaro
These birds often live in conditions that other species cannot.
This East African country is home to Mount Kilimanjaro,
Africa’s tallest.
One of the world’s oldest
Christian traditions exists
in this East African country.
This East African country is the
ancestral home to Barack
Obama’s family.
This country is Africa’s largest.
The capital, Khartoum, lies at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile
Rivers.
The island of Socotra belongs to Yemen though it lies closer to this East
African country.
This ocean borders Africa to the East.
These long bodies of water are used by ships for transportation between
many East African countries.
The longest fresh water lake in the world is this lake which forms the border between Tanzania and the
Democratic Republic of Congo.
This lake is Africa’s largest and the source of water for the Nile River.
Often used in aquariums, these species of fish are native to the Rift Valley lakes of East
Africa.
This country forms the “Horn
of Africa.”
A former British colony, this country gets its name from
the Buganda Kingdom that ruled
the region in the 14th century.
This country broke from
Ethiopia and declared its
independence in 1993.
Many of the world’s great
athletes in this sport have come from East Africa.
Track or running.
Many tourists to East Africa travel to view scenes like this on one of these, a journey or expedition for
hunting or exploration.
Many scientists believe that the earliest of
these animals evolved in the Rift Valley of Africa at sites like Olduvai Gorge in
modern day Tanzania and Aramis, Ethiopia.
Members of this traditional nomadic ethnic group of Kenya and Tanzania are among the
most famous in Africa
Whether written in the Arabic or Roman alphabet, this language is
the most commonly spoken in East Africa.