What is the Highest Point in Each African Country?
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2024
- The African continent is home to an incredible array of landscapes and countries. What's the highest point in each of these nations?
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Hi everyone, thanks for watching! I hope this video wasn't too fast-paced - I tried to cut down on the time between each country, since the video would have been much longer. Hopefully it was still enjoyable :)
The videos for Europe, United States, and Canada’s highest points all got quite viral so I’m expecting this to get viral too
I watched this at 75% speed. I think your audience would be geography nuts so you don't have to worry about rushing; we love this stuff. thanks for the video.
I like it when you find a beautiful picture so we can get an impression of what the landscape is like at that place. I like dipping into the vibes of these various places, from stone massives in the desert to lush, green hills.
Where is the south american peaks and north american peaks video
Honestly these are my favorite types of videos from you. You should make more of them and maybe do some on lakes or oceans and whatnot :)
Glad you enjoy them! Many more videos like this are in the works for sure :)
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Today I learned... a bunch of stuff. First and foremost, I've been pronouncing Lesotho wrong all these years. LOL Thanks, CG! I cherish learning geography facts, and look forward to your videos. Keep it up!
Thanks for mentioning Mount Teide. As a spaniard I appreciate the gesture.
Btw, It's a fascinating mountain.
From the base It's the third tallest mountain on earth after mauna loa and mauna kea in Hawaii.
Even though, there used to be a significantly taller mountain there. Mount Teide Is a new cone grown on the site of a larger collapsed volcano.
It's the site of several world renowned telescopes (along the nearby caldera de Taburiente), given It's high altitude and low moisture.
It houses one of the largest volcanic Tubes in the world, and the largest outside Hawaii.
Because of Its isolation and huge altitude gradient the canary islands (along the rest of the macaronesian isles) are one of the richest regions of the world in endemisms.
In fact, Darwin allegedly wanted to study Evolution in the canary isles and the Galapagos were his second option.
I've been there! It's very easy to reach and explore the caldera by car and the landscape is otherworldly. Crazy to think that many people only see Tenerife as a cheap beach destination.
Wow, Africa really has some beautiful landscapes! These remote lands are gems compared to where I live (Germany), where everything has been bulldozed at least once, it seems. Especially Mount Richard-Molard looks absolutely spectacular, with all the green foliage on its steep flanks. (6:40) Also the picture of Mount Catherine in Egypt looks absolutely breathtaking. (10:50) On the Pico del Teide I already stood myself - an otherworldly landscape and spectacular view in all directions. When there are clouds, you feel like you float above the sea. On the way there it looks like a moonscape with some fascinating plants and animals. (14:30) Mount Karisimbi looks increadibly luscious for a height of 4500m. In other parts of the world, it would be a big rock with glaciers. (15:35). Finally, both Mount Kenya and Kilimandjaro look like something a painter made up. (16:26)
We stayed at a lodge close to Mount Stanley and the Rwenzori Mountains last year. Remarkable at there is permanent snow and it is less than 100km from the equator. Also some of the beautiful landscapes I have ever seen.
It’s funny that you say that about Germany. I’ve lived there for two years and found it absolutely enchanting.
@@boxsterman77 Where did you live?
@@nilsp9426 Worms.
@@boxsterman77 I live not too far from Worms and I have to say the mixture of intense agriculture and badly designed urban landscape feels quite draining and lifeless. What annoys me most is the car infrastructure that is loud, dirty, dead, dangerous and takes lots of space, even though I mostly don't need it. Not saying that it isn't interrupted by nice places, though!
thank you for including the imperial measurements for threeheads like me
Anything for my American brethren
love these high point vids
Nice that you mentioned Teide. France also has an interesting high point in Reunion island ( Piton des Neiges, 3,070 m).
Also the UK has Tristan da Cunha rising above 2,000m but I couldn't find out if it's actually within the African plate.
I love this series. It's interesting, fun, informative, and an invitation to explore, if only on the internet, some wonderful countries and their geographies. Thank you, and keep up the good work🌋!
That means a lot, thank you!
Those "vibrant colors" on Bench 828 at 2:57 are the colors of the Flag of Mauritius, by the way.
Idc what you say chad is the highest African country.
Amazing video, very informative!
Didn't expect most of West Africa to be below 2000m asl. Most of East Africa's population lives at a high elevation. In fact Addis Ababa and Nairobi are among the 10 highest capitals globally.
I thought Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco would be higher on the list
Yes. Even Madagascar capital is the 20th highest in the world and the 10th in Africa. Half of the top 20 is African capitals
Amazing content CG!
you should do a video on the lowest point in every landlocked country (because all non landlocked would just be sea level), i think that would be a cool twist
While this is true for most of the countries that have oceanic coastline, there are several countries (both landlocked and with coastline) that have their lowest point below sea level.
That would be a pretty boring video though, it'd just be a point on all their borders most likely
That was super intersting! I'm not sure why but I never realized just how steep the central western areas of africa were, and how massive the cameroon peaks are. Also curious what the hardest to reach out of these points is? I guess the hardest would probably be Kilimanjaro, but you can't ignore how tough it would be to get to some of the saharan ones. Or countries like CAR and DRC which are just so remote.
Definitely not Kilimanjaro. The plains around are hospitable and ordinary people climb the volcano due to its quite easy going terrain (altitude is the hardest part).
I would say My Kenya is more technically challenging. I'm not knowledgeable but Libya's desert volcano looks incredibly harsh.
Love these videos, can't wait for the next one!
Why'd you choose to include Mt. Catherine, which is in Asia? Just curious because Mt. Teide wasn't included in Europe's video.
Everyone was mad that I didn't include Teide, so I changed my approach
@@ChicagoGeographer Haha understandable! Keep up the great work :)
I never realized just how mountainous different parts of the African continent are. To be fair, I think it's because the US (ignoring Alaska and parts of the West) is pretty flat, so my point of comparison is pretty skewed.
You better ignore the Appalachians too
Let me introduce the Applications, Ozarks, Adirondacks, and pretty much all of the land west of the Rockies being anything but flat
@@theamphibinator ye they are very short mountains and us has like 2000 km of plains
Fun fact: Mount Mawenzi on the slopes of Kili is actually the 3rd highest mountain in Africa, so Margarita Peak on the DRC/Uganda border is actually 4th. The Tanzanian government doesn't recognise Mawenzi as a mountain as this would discredit the claim that Kili is the highest free standing mountain on earth, but with 849m prominence and 5149m height (more prominence than even Lhotse, 4th highest mountain on earth), it is unquestionably a mountain by any logical definition. Also, there is no logical definition of a free standing mountain that would classify Kili as free-standing without a higher mountain also counting as free standing.
awesome video!
I absolutely subscribed, quality content!!!
Much appreciated!
The gambia sure is a weird shaped country.
its shaped around the distance a cannon can fire from the gambia river if I remember correctly
a lot of these countries have high points much higher than I was expecting. Africa has a lot of mountain ranges
Are you planning to do the highest points in each Asian country? That would be awesome.
Its crazy how Djibouti, Niger, and Sao Tome's high points are all within like 3 meters of each other.
Nice video! :D
I have been on the highest peak of Mt Kilimandjaro, Mt Catherine, & Pico Basile.
Here is the list
1 Tanzania Mount Kilimanjaro 5895 m
2 Kenya Mount Kenya 5199 m
T3 DRC/Uganda Mount Stanley 5109 m
5 Ethiopia Ras Dashen 4543 m
6 Rwanda Mount Karisimbi 4519 m
7 Morocco Toubkal 4167 m
8 Cameroon Mount Cameroon 4040 m
9 Spain Teide 3718 m
10 Lesotho Thabana Ntlenyana 3482 m
11 South Africa Mafadi 3451 m
12 Chad Emi Koussi 3415 m
13 South Sudan Kinyeti 3187 m
14 Eritrea Emba Soira 3018 m
15 Sudan Deriba Caldera 3012/3042 m
16 Equatorial Guinea Pico Basile 3011 m
17 Malawi Mulanje Massif 3002 m
18 Algeria Mount Tahat 2908/3003 m
19 Madagascar Maromokotro 2876 m
20 Cabo Verde Pico do Fogo 2829 m
21 Burundi Mount Heha 2670 m
22 Egypt Mount Catherine 2629 m
23 Angola Mount Moco 2620 m
24 Zimbabwe Mount Nyangani 2592 m
25 Namibia Brandberg Massif 2573 m
26 Somalia Mount Shimbiris 2460 m
27 Mozambique Monte Binga 2439 m
28 Nigeria Chappal Waddi 2419 m
29 Comoros Mount Karthala 2361 m
30 Zambia Mafinga Central 2339 m
31 Libya Bikku Bitti 2266 m
32 Sao Tome and Principe Pico de Sao tome 2024 m
33 Niger Mont Bagzane 2022 m
34 Djibouti Mousa Ali 2021 m
35 Sierra Leone Mount Bintumani 1945 m
36 Eswatini Emlembe 1862 m
T-37 Cote D'ivoire/Guinea Mount Richard-Molard 1752 m
39 Tunisia Jebel ech Chambi 1544 m
40 Botswana Otse Hill/Monalanong Hill 1491/1494 m
41 Liberia Mount Wuteve 1420 m
42 CAR Mont Ngaoui 1410 m
43 Mali Hombori Tondo 1155 m
44 Gabon Mont Bengoue 1070 m
45 RCongo Mont Nabemba 1020 m
46 Togo Mont Agou 980 m
47 Mauritania Kediet el Jill 915 m
48 Seychelles Morne Seychellois 905 m
49 Ghana Mount Afadja/Leklata 885/907 m
50 Mauritius Piton de la petire riviere noire 828 m
51 Burkina Faso Mount Tenakourou 747 m
52 Benin Mont Sokbaro 658 m
53 Senegal Unnamed Point 648 m
54 Guinea-Bissau Unnamed Point 262/300 m
55 The Gambia Unnamed Point 53/61 m
I just climbed the brandberg and it reminded me of this video
You forgot Reunion, the French island in the Indian Ocean.
Maybe a video about the worlds/a continent's longest undistributed sand beaches
As an African I found a spill a pronunciations very in Izzy
Loved this
Lesothos lowest point is 1400 metres meaning even there you are higher than some of the highest points in a number of countries
If I'm not mistaken Paul from Geography Now just ascended Mount Agou
That's pretty awesome!
Love these vids
165 Likes, 0 Dislikes, good stuff!
Is asia next?
Yep :)
You kinda broke your continental criteria with that Egypt entry.
so many high point disputes lol
also I love that africa has a country named chad
When will there be a video each about the highest points of every Latin American country, Asian country, Oceanian country, and Caribbean country?
Can you post a graph of number of countries vs height
Hey, I recognize that background music ;)
Interesting how it seems most of Africa is at a moderately high elevation, while there are very few truly sky-high mountains.
Smash hit music goes hard 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Have you done this about Europe?
Yes :)
Usually Gambia's highest point is probably Red Rock on the Wikipedia.
One reserch says that the name for the highest point in gambia is Red rock
i visited teyde som years ago
So cool!
I love how this video was uploaded in 2021 and djibouti has the highest point as 2021m lol
waiting for asia :)
Do you know why a LOT of the high points are on the extreme borders of said country? It seems so unlikely, given all countries have a lot more area than just their borders for the high point to appear in!
Not 100% sure, but I'd guess that since lots of borders in Africa were drawn along geographic boundaries by colonial powers, they used tall mountain ranges for lots of borders
Tall mountain ranges and ridges are commonly used as borders because they're easily recognized from a distance and make it easy to tell which country you are in, as opposed to arbitrary straight lines which require more surveying.
This will actually be expected to be true fairly commonly, and it was also seen a lot on the state high points vid. The reason is that if a border is drawn on a slope, then the highest point on that slope within the lower country will be on the border. So that trend is more of a result of geometry than of politics, history or any tendency to draw borders along natural boundaries.
To make the reason for this more clear, imagine a continent that is single giant perfectly smooth cone, like a big symmetrical gently sloping volcano. Then no matter where you draw the country borders, every country other than the one containing the peak will have it's highest point on a border!
Imagine claiming a piece of land and a rival wants to know how much you claim. You point at a nearby mountain and claim everything up to its top
Now the highest point is likely in that same mountain range near your border
You should try using google earth 3D
Isn't Kilimanjaro just a mountain range? The highest point of Tanzania an of Africa should be Mount Kibo or am I wrong?
Kibo is the highest volcanic cone of Mt Kilimanjaro, they are all considered one volcano together.
My man forgot 3 continents.
Asia, North America and South America
Kilimanjaro its the most Scenic mountain on Earth.
It's not
@@guyhaynama good for you
Technically Liberia uses imperial units and not metric, so you should have imperial first then metric in brackets.
no
@@skurinski rude
For my Ghanaians 3:00
Yessss!
Even my town is higher than most of the highest peaks of African countries 😀
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Epic
We need to transport some water to Africa
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You forgot Western Sahara 🇪🇭 but you added Spain? 😡
São Tomé and Príncipe is pronounced (Say-oh Tow-m and Prins-e-pe)
Why did you include Spain's highest point in this video and not the European one, yet you also included Egypt's highest point despite it being in Asia?
As I said in the video Teide was an honorary mention, and I decided to just include the true highest point of all these countries instead of limiting it to geographic Africa because people were angry I didn't do it that way in the Europe video.
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I’ve never clicked so fast!
Was it really necessary to mention 'notably for my fellow Americans watching along, this is the first peak over 10,000ft on the list'?
USA is NOT the centre of the world.
Most of my viewers are from the United States
@@ChicagoGeographer still pretty irrelevant tbh.
@@chrisoconnor9521 Agree to disagree
@@ChicagoGeographer just keep the videos about whatever they're about. Bringing stuff like this in is not only unnecessary but just seems elitist.
@@chrisoconnor9521 I'm an American RUclipsr making videos for a 52% American audience, I'll make the choices that I see fit for my viewers. You'll notice that I only spoke in metric units, save for the comment about 10,000 feet I made. Kinda crazy that you're so pressed about a minor harmless detail