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The Republic of Kenya covers an area of 582,644 square kilometres and shares a common border with Ethiopia to the north, Sudan to the north west, Uganda to the west,Tanzania to the South , and Somalia to the East.

The country sits astride the Equator and is bisected from north to South by the Great Rift Valley, a natural phenomenon that runs through most of the length of Africa . Kenya is a land of great physical contrasts divided into roughly five ecological zones. To the north and north east, the country ranges from semi arid to desert. About two thirds of the country is in this zone, whose most important feature is Lake Turkana on whose shores at Koobi Kora.

 

The Republic of Tanzania covers an area of 945,087 square kilometres and is bordered to the north by Kenya, to the nothwest by Uganda, and to the west by Rwanda , Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

On the south Tanzania borders Zambia and Malawi and to the Soth East it is bordered by Mozambique. Tanzania also has a long coastline bordering the Indian Ocean. Included in the Republic of Tanzania is the well known holiday Island of Zanzibar.

The country of South Africa occupies a total area of some 1.2m square kilometres on the Southern tip of Africa. It’s main feauture is a long coastline that stretches south from its border with Namibia on the Atlantic coast down to Capepoint where the the cold Atlantic currents meet with the warm currents of the indian Ocean, and then up north to the border with Mozambique. Apart from Namibia and Mozambique, South Africa also borders Botswana and Zimbabwe on its interior north and completely surrounds the small Kingdom of Lesotho.

The nine provinces that make up South Africa are: Eastern Cape, Free State, Guateng, Kwa Zulu- Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape , North West and Western Cape. The provinces range in size from the tiny Guateng covering only some 16500 square kilometres to the vast Northern Cape covering an area of over 372,000 sq kilometres.