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Theme 5: Region - taken from //Five Themes of Geography// by Matt Rosenberg (About.com) also from Mr.Plouffes wiki under Theme5 Regions. = Formal regions of Sub-Saharan Africa = = =
 * **Formal regions** are those that are designated by official boundaries, such as cities, states, counties, and countries. For the most part, they are clearly indicated and publicly known.
 * **Functional regions** are defined by their connections. For example, the circulation area for a major city newspaper is the functional region of that paper. (This means that there must be a core that extends outward in terms of influence. That influence will diminish over distance. Thus, one could say that, for example, much of Gyeonggi-do is part of the "Seoul region".
 * **Vernacular regions** are perceived regions, such as "The South," "The Midwest," or the "Middle East;" they have no formal boundaries but are understood in our mental maps (see exercise done at the courses beginning for an idea of what a mental map is).
 * Countries  and capitals within Sub-Saharan Africa: [[image:Africa-map-e.gif align="right" link="http://www.cida.gc.ca/INET/IMAGES.NSF/vLUImages/Afrique_subsaharienne/$file/Africa-map-e.gif"]]
 * 1) Angola : Algiers
 * 2) Benin : Porto-Novo
 * 3) Botswana : Gaborone
 * 4) Burkina Faso: <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ouagadougou
 * 5) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Burundi : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bujumbura
 * 6) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Cameroon : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Yaounde
 * 7) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Cape Verde : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Praia
 * 8) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Central African Republic : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bangui
 * 9) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chad : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">N'Djamena
 * 10) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Comoros : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Moroni
 * 11) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Congo (Brazzaville) : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Brazzaville
 * 12) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Congo (Kinshasa) : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Kinshasa
 * 13) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Djibouti : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Djibouti
 * 14) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Equatorial Guinea : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Malabo
 * 15) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Eritrea : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Asmara
 * 16) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ethiopia : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Addis Ababa
 * 17) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Gabon : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Libreville
 * 18) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Gambia : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Banjul
 * 19) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Ghana : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Accra
 * 20) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Guinea : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Conakry
 * 21) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Guinea - Bissau : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bissau
 * 22) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Kenya : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Nairobi <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[[image:africa_small_map.jpg width="420" height="489" align="right" link="http://mapoftheunitedstates.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/africa_small_map.jpg"]]
 * 23) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lesotho : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Maseru
 * 24) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Liberia : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Monrovia
 * 25) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Madagascar : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Antananarivo
 * 26) <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Malawi : Lilongwe
 * 27) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mali : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Bamko
 * 28) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mauritania : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Nouakchott
 * 29) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mauritius : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Port Louis
 * 30) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mozambique : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Maputo
 * 31) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Namibia : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Windhoek
 * 32) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Niger : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Niamey
 * 33) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Nigeria : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Abuja
 * 34) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Rwanda : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Kigali
 * 35) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Senegal : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Dakar
 * 36) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Seychelles : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Victoria
 * 37) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sierra Leone : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Freetown
 * 38) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Somalia : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mogadishu
 * 39) <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">South Africa : Cape Town, Pretoria
 * 40) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Sudan : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Khartoum
 * 41) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Swaziland : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mbabana
 * 42) <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Tanzania : Dar es Salaam
 * 43) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Togo: <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lome
 * 44) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Uganda : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Kampala
 * 45) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Zambia : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Lusaka
 * 46) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Zimbabwe : <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Harare

= = = Political instability of Sub-Saharan Africa = = = = = = =


 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This is a map of Sub- Saharan Africa showing the political stability of different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. From this map we can see that about 50% of Sub-Saharan Africa is politically stable at the moment, and 25 % is active with conflicts. The other 25 % of Sub-Saharan Africa is politically unstable.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This map also shows the resources that comes out from different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. Compared to the size of the land, the mineral resources coming out from it is very little. However we can see that from Sub-Saharan Africa, a lot of oil is being made.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> The map shows the oil extraction from different part of Sub-Saharan Africa. It shows us that towards the center of the continent, Africa, has oil extraction. And towards the bottom of the continent, we can see that other minerals are extracted there.

= Vegetation map of Sub-Saharan Africa = = = ==  Climate map of Sub-Saharan Africa = =

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<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">↑ Map of Sub-Saharan Africa showing the vegetation of that region.

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Map of the Sub-Saharan Africa showing the climate of that region→

= Vernacular regions of Sub-Saharan Africa =

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mountain Ranges within Sub-Saharan Africa:
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Not many significant mountains are found in Sub-Saharan Africa.
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">But some mountains there are: Mountains of Angola
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mountains of Benin
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mountains of Gabon
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mountains of Kenya

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Rivers in Sub-Saharan Africa: = = = = = =
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Niger River
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Volta River
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Benue River
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Congo River
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Zambezi River
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Orange River
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Limpopo River

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= Functional Map of Sub-Saharan Africa: AIDS number =
 * <span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This map shows the number of people who are infected by AIDS. This map shows that AIDS is a very serious issue in Africa. As you can see, the darker the color gets, there are more people with AIDS. Sub-Saharan Africa is mostly colored with a dark color meaning that AIDS are common in Sub-Saharan Africa. The main reason why this is going on there is mostly because of sexual labor in Africa. As more people tend to have sexual activities, more people are infected by HIV/AIDS.

= Work Cited: =

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> "African Countries and Capitals." //World Travel Guide - Tours, Flights, Hotels//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Nov. 2009. <http://www.travour.com/africa/countries-in-africa.html>.

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Sub-Saharan Africa: Mineral resources and political instability - Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal." //Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Nov. 2009. <http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/sub-saharan-africa-mineral-resources-and-political-instability>.

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> "Sub-Saharan Africa: Physical Geography." //Harper College, Palatine, Il//. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2009. <http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/g101ilec/ssa/afd/afphys/afphysfr.htm>.

<span style="color: #808080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> "Category:Mountains of Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." //Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia//. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mountains_of_Africa>.

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