3. Sudan Eritrea Ethiopia Somalia Uganda Kenya Djibouti Tanzania Burundi Rwanda Seychelles Comoros Are these geometric or natural boundaries?

4. Landforms  Highlands and mountains from Ethiopia to Cape of Good Hope  Include Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Kenya

5.  3 subregions  Great Lakes  Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi  Horn of Africa  Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia  Islands off the coast  Comoros and Seychelles  Diverse vegetation within subregions (and even in single countries)

6. Where are most of the lakes and rivers located? Great Rift Valley Formed by tectonic plate movement Major lakes From Syria (in SW Asia) to Mozambique (in SE Africa)

7. Major Rivers  Rivers  White Nile  Blue Nile  Tributaries meet at Khartoum (capital of Sudan)  Confluence: the junction or combination of two rivers

8. Lake Tanganyika Second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume Also the second deepest Which lake ranks first?

9. Seychelles and Comoros  Located off the coasts of Tanzania and Madagascar in Indian Ocean  Seychelles = 115 islands  Most are uninhabited  Humid and tropical climate  Lush vegetation  Rocky and hilly islands leave little farmland (~ 18%)  Comoros = 3 islands  Nov.-Mar. = “wet” season  Monsoons, heavy rains, cyclones  Apr.-Oct. = dry season  Formed by volcanoes  Cultivate sugar cane, ylang-ylang (for perfume), vanilla, cloves, and tropical plants

10. Compare the two: Do you notice any patterns?

11. Jamma River Gorge, Ethiopia Highlands of Burundi

12. Samburu National Forest, Kenya Zanzibar, Tanzania

13. Desert and Farmland Meeting in an area in Northern Sudan

14.  East Africa has the second largest country (by land size)  Sudan  Recently (2011) split into Sudan and South Sudan after vote for independence

16. Population  East Africa has three of the top six most populated countries on the continent  Ethiopia  Tanzania  Kenya

17. Ethiopia Over 77.4 million people Life expectancy = 48 years

18. Tanzania Over 36.5 million people Life expectancy = 44 years

19. Kenya Over 33.8 million people Life expectancy = 47 years

20. What patterns did you notice?  How old is the majority of the population?  Which country has the most people under the age of 14?  What do these patterns indicate?