What is the Highest Point in Each African Country? 

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 :)

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 :)

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!

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🌋!

thank you for including the imperial measurements for threeheads like me

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.

Amazing content CG!

love these high point vids

awesome video!

Idc what you say chad is the highest African country. Amazing video, very informative!

Loved this

Nice video! :D

I absolutely subscribed, quality content!!!

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)

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.

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.

Love these vids

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.

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

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.

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.

So cool!

Maybe a video about the worlds/a continent's longest undistributed sand beaches

Are you planning to do the highest points in each Asian country? That would be awesome.

Can you post a graph of number of countries vs height

Its crazy how Djibouti, Niger, and Sao Tome's high points are all within like 3 meters of each other.

When will there be a video each about the highest points of every Latin American country, Asian country, Oceanian country, and Caribbean country?

If I'm not mistaken Paul from Geography Now just ascended Mount Agou

You kinda broke your continental criteria with that Egypt entry.

The gambia sure is a weird shaped country.

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.

Hey, I recognize that background music ;)

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Lesothos lowest point is 1400 metres meaning even there you are higher than some of the highest points in a number of countries

As an African I found a spill a pronunciations very in Izzy

a lot of these countries have high points much higher than I was expecting. Africa has a lot of mountain ranges

What’s the music at the start of the video?

i visited teyde som years ago

I have been on the highest peak of Mt Kilimandjaro, Mt Catherine, & Pico Basile.

so many high point disputes lol also I love that africa has a country named chad

Smash hit music goes hard 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Usually Gambia's highest point is probably Red Rock on the Wikipedia.

Yessss!

Is asia next?

Have you done this about Europe?

Interesting how it seems most of Africa is at a moderately high elevation, while there are very few truly sky-high mountains.

I love how this video was uploaded in 2021 and djibouti has the highest point as 2021m lol

You forgot Reunion, the French island in the Indian Ocean.

You should try using google earth 3D

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!

waiting for asia :)

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My man forgot 3 continents. Asia, North America and South America

Isn't Kilimanjaro just a mountain range? The highest point of Tanzania an of Africa should be Mount Kibo or am I wrong?

Technically Liberia uses imperial units and not metric, so you should have imperial first then metric in brackets.

Kilimanjaro its the most Scenic mountain on Earth.

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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

For my Ghanaians 3:00

Even my town is higher than most of the highest peaks of African countries 😀

São Tomé and Príncipe is pronounced (Say-oh Tow-m and Prins-e-pe)

You forgot Western Sahara 🇪🇭 but you added Spain? 😡

We need to transport some water to Africa

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?

I’ve never clicked so fast!

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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.