Highlands in Africa

 

Africa’s highest land points, mountains and hills

 

PEAK

ELEVATION

LOCATION

COUNTRY

1. Mt. KIlimanjaro

5,895 metres

Volcanic peak, near Kenya

 Tanzania

2. Kenya (Kirinyaga)

5,199 metres

 

 Kenya

3. Margherita Peak

5,119 metres

Rwenzori Mountains

 Uganda

4. Ras Dashan

4,620 metres

Gondar

 Ethiopia

5. Karisimbi

4,507 metres

Volcano, Virunga Mountains

 Rwanda

6. Jebel Toubkal

4,167 metres

Atlas Mountains

 Morocco

7. Mount Cameroon

4,069 metres

Volcanic peak

 Cameroon

8. Thabana-Ntlenyana

3,482 metres

Drakensberg Mountains

 Lesotho

9. Champagne Castle

3,446 metres

Great Escarpment

 South Africa

10. Emi Koussi

3,415 metres

Tibesti mountains

 Chad

11. Kinyeti

3,187 metres

Imatong Mountains

 Sudan

12. Piton des Neiges

3,069 metres

Indian Ocean

 Reunion

13. Pico de Baile

3,007 metres

Malabo Island

 Equa Guinea

14. Tahat

3,003 metres

Ahaggar mountains

 Algeria

15. Sapitwa (Mt.Mulanje)

3,002 metres

Shire Highlands

 Malawi

16. Soira

2,989 metres

 

 Eritrea

17. Maromokotra

2,876 metres

Tsarata

 Madagascar

18. Pico de Cano

2,829 metres

Active volcano, Fogo Island

 Cape Verde

19. Mt. Karonje

2,685 metres

Source of River Nile

 Burundi

20. Gebel Katherina (Sinai)

2,637 metres

Sinai desert

 Egypt

21. Serro Moco

2,619 metres

Northern highland plateau

 Angola

22. Brandberg

2,606 metres

N.West, near Atlantic Ocean

 Namibia

23. Mount Inyangani

2,592 metres

Inyanga Mountains

Zimbabwe

24. Monte Binga

2,436 metres

Close to Zimbabwe border

 Mozambique

25. Mount Shimbiris

2,416 metres

 

 Somalia

26. Mt. Kartala

2,361 metres

Active volcano

 Comoros

27. Pic Bette

2,286 metres

Tibesti Masif

Libya

28. Unnamed heights

2,164 metres

Mbala, near Tanzania border

 Zambia

29. Pico de Sao Tome

2,024 metres

Gulf of Guinea

 Sao Tome & Princ

39. Mount Vogel

2,024 metres

Gotel Mountains

 Nigeria

40. Bagzane

2,022 metres

 

 Niger

41. Moussa Ali

2,020 metres

 

 Djibouti

42. Bintimani

1,945 metres

Loma Mountains

 Sierra Leone

43. Emblembe

1,862 metres

Highveld, near South Africa

 Swaziland

44. Mount Nimba

1,752 metres

Border with Ivory Coast

 Liberia

44. Mount Nimba

1,752 metres

Guinea-Liberia border area

 Ivory Coast

44. Mount Nimba

1,752 metres

Border area with Ivory Coast

 Guinea

45. Jebel Chambi

1,544 metres

Atlas Mountains

 Tunisia

46. Unnamed heights

1,489 metres

Southeast area

 Botswana

47. Masif des Bongos

1,400 metres

 

 Cent. African. Rep

48. Hombori Tondo

1,155 metres

Hoggar Masif

 Mali

49. Mt. De la Leketi

1,040 metres

 

 Rep of Congo

50. Pic Baumann

986 metres

Atakora Mountains, near Ghana

Togo

51. Mount Ibounoji

980 metres

 

 Gabon

52. Piton de la Petite

915 metres

Riviere Noire, volcano

 Mauritius

53. Kediet ej Jill

915 metres

 

 Mauritania

54. Morne Seychellois

905 metres

Mahe Island

 Seychelles

55. Mount Afadjado

885 metres

 

 Ghana

56. Tena Kourou

747 metres

 

 Burkina Faso

 

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Guide:

 Identification of the Highlands on the map

1.     Cameroun highlands         

2.     Kilimanjaro (5895 m)

3.     Kenya highlands (5199 m)

4.     Mt. Elgon (4321 m)       

5.     Drakensberg ranges (3482 m)

6.     Atlas ranges  (4165)

7.     Ahagger Mtn. (2918 m) 

8.     Tibesti  (3415 m)

9.     Ethiopian Highlands 

10.  Rwenzori ((5110 m) 

11.  Adamawa Highlands 

12.  Futa jalon