By approximately what year did Kilimanjaro's ice cap still cover about 12 square kilometers before shrinking to roughly 1 square kilometer today?

Geography

Which mountain, the highest peak in Africa, has seen its ice cap shrink from roughly 12 square kilometers in 1912 to about 1 square kilometer in recent surveys?

Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro loses its ice cap so rapidly that glaciers covering 12 square kilometers in 1912 now cover barely one square kilometer.

Geography

What is the highest peak in the Atlas Mountain range?

Mount Toubkal in Morocco is the highest Atlas peak and visible from Marrakech on clear days.

Geography

Which African country has the most pyramids in the world, surpassing even Egypt in total number?

Sudan's Meroe pyramids were so unknown to the Western world that a 19th-century Italian treasure hunter blew the tops off 40 of them searching for gold.

Geography

In what year did Burma's military government officially renamed the country Myanmar?

Myanmar's name change in 1989 was so controversial that Western countries refused to recognize it officially for decades, still calling it Burma.

Geography

What distinctive hydrological result comes from the Congo River crossing the equator twice on its path across Africa?

The Congo River crosses the equator twice, making it the only major river on Earth to do so, creating a unique mirror-image hydrological system.

Geography

The Atacama Desert is considered Earth's driest non-polar desert. Approximately how long have some of its regions gone without measurable rainfall?

The Atacama Desert hasn't seen measurable rainfall in some regions for over 400 years, making it Earth's driest inhabited place.