Southern African Countries Quiz

Southern Africa is generally considered to include the countries of South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Angola, Lesotho, Eswatini, and Madagascar. The region is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Indian Ocean to the east, and transitions to Central Africa in the north. South Africa is the region's largest economy and most industrialized nation.

Southern Africa's Landscapes

Southern Africa contains extraordinary geographic diversity: the Namib Desert (one of the world's oldest deserts, stretching along the Namibian coast), the Kalahari Desert (spanning Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa), the Drakensberg mountains in South Africa and Lesotho, the Zambezi River and Victoria Falls (shared by Zambia and Zimbabwe), the Okavango Delta in Botswana (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), and the Cape Floristic Region - One of the world's six major floral kingdoms. Lesotho is the world's highest-elevation country below a certain latitude. Explore more with our African countries map quiz, East African map quiz, and African capitals map quiz.