SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -The main physical features include the Sahara Desert and the Niger River. The Cameroon Highlands are located on the eastern border between Nigeria and Cameroon. At 4, 100 miles long, the Nile River is the longest, while the Congo River is Africa’s second longest at 2, 922 miles in length.

Detailed explanation-2: -West Africa’s landscape is mainly flat with coastal plains in the west and south, especially in Senegal, the southern Ivory Coast, the Niger Delta and the lower valleys of the Volta and Niger rivers.

Detailed explanation-3: -West Africa is enriched with numerous surface water resources (rivers, estuaries, lakes, reservoirs), including major rivers such as the Niger, Senegal, Gambia, and Lake Chad. These rivers take their sources in tropically wet major groundwater basins and regions with considerable amount of annual rainfall (Fig.