[20]Seven plant families are only found here, the highest number of any biodiversity hotspot in the world. [17]The plant family didiereaceae, composed of four genera and 11 species, is limited to the spiny forests of southwestern Madagascar. Four-fifths of the world's pachypodium species are endemic to the island. Three-fourths of Madagascar's 960 orchid species are found here alone, as are six of the world's eightbaobab species. The island is also home to around 170 palm species, three times as many as are found on mainland Africa; 165 of these are endemic.
Ghana (Listeni/ˈɡɑːnə/), officially called the Republic of Ghana, is a sovereign multinational state and unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa. Ghana is the 82nd largest country in the world and 33rd largest country on continental Africa by land mass, and Ghana has a land mass of 238,535 km2, with 2,093 kilometres of international land borders. The country is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south. The word Ghana means "Warrior King". [12] Ghana is a constitutional democracy divided into ten administrative regions, and the world's 56th−most inhabited nation with a population of approximately 27 million as of 2014.
1. Haiti is a Caribbean country situated on the western part of Hispaniola. Its capital is Port-au-Prince and has an area of 27,750 square kilometers. Haiti is divided into 10 departments, and the departments are further divided into 41 arrondissements (administrative division), and 133 communes (municipality). Haiti’s official language is French but Spanish is also spoken by a good portion of the population.
Most of the blacks are of Jamaican decent. Most of the Amerindians reside on isolated reservations. The nationality of the people of Costa Rica is Costa Rican(s) although they’re commonly referred to as “Ticos” (Visit Costa Rica). The official language of Costa Rica is Spanish but southwestern Caribbean Creole dialect of English is widely spoken around the Limon area (Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, 2011). Some native languages are still spoken on 24 indigenous reservations.
The Republic of Madagascar or commonly known as simply Madagascar declared their freedom from France on June 26, 1960 (Metz). The country is populated with 26,262,810 citizens known as the Malagasy. Madagascar has consistently been increasing their population from 2.5% - 3% per year ever since they received their independence (Madagascar Population). “The Malagasy language--spoken throughout Madagascar by the entire population--is the only one in the African region that belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian language family. Linguists believe that it shares a common origin with, and is most closely related to Maanyan, a language spoken in southeast Borneo.” (Metz).
After doing the research, we realized that living in Jamaica would be entirely different than living in America. Aside from being a widely known vacation spot, Jamaica has many poverty stricken and slum areas. Jamaica is a 4,243 square mile island. It is in the Caribbean Sea, 90 miles south of Cuba ("Mobay"). With 2.8 million people, it is the third most populated English speaking country, after the United States and Canada.
Rwanda supports the densest population in continental Africa, with most of the population engaged in subsistence agriculture. A verdant country of fertile and hilly terrain, the small republic bears the title "Land of a Thousand Hills" (Quoted from French: Pays des Mille Collines wikepedia) Rwanda became an Independence nation on July first 1962 from Belgium Rwanda was created as a republic governed by the majority Party of the Hutu Emancipation Movement which had gained full control of national politics by this time. Rwanda also now became a Hutu-dominated one-party state. (Source www.CiaWorldFactbook.com) Genocide During April and May in 1994 an approximate 800,000 Rwandans were killed in the space of 100 days. Most of the deaths were Tutsis and most of those who were involved in the violence were Hutus.
It is a moist broadleaf that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. B. It represents over half of the planet’s remaining rainforests and it comprises the largest and most species-rich tract of tropical rainforest in the world. C. Amazon rainforest is getting smaller and smaller due to anthropic factors and nonhuman factors. IV.
The Andes Mountains also consist of fauna, being that the Andes is a habitat for numerous species. Another interesting fact about the Andes Mountains is that it is home to an anthropological discovery of the legendary Plomo Children, which is exhibited in the Museum of National History of Chile. Andes Mountains Location of the landform and Characteristics of the landform The Andes Mountains are located in South America, running north to south along the western coast of the continent. The latitude is 10° N. to 57° S. The longitude is 70° W. to 80° E. The Andes Mountains are the longest and one of the highest mountain ranges in the world. They are located in South America and stretch 4,500 miles from north to south, along the west coast of the continent.
It has many tributaries but there are two main ones: the White Nile fed by lake Victoria and the Blue Nile coming from Ethiopian mountains. These two main branches join near Khartoum, the capital of Sudan and they continue together as Nile proper until meeting the Mediterranean Sea and forming the Nile delta in northern Egypt. Around 5000 BC, one of the first great civilizations developed in the northern Nile river valley dependent on agriculture in a land called Egypt. Water; Fertile soil; and river's flow north while prevailing wind blows south made the Nile the best transportation way, were examples of the Nile gifts. Another gift is that every year the flood came bringing disaster and famine due to destroying the crops and their villages.