Africa

Benin is located in the west of Africa. In the south, the country borders on the Atlantic Ocean, which is called the Gulf of Guinea here. The stretch of sea off Benin’s coast is called the Bay of Benin. The country is long and narrow in the south, and then …

Which country is Luanda? Luanda is the most expensive city in Africa and a place of stark social contrasts. Here Angola’s nouveau riche cruise with their black SUVs, while a language teacher teaches for just under 800 euros a month. Only a few people have used the country’s huge oil …

Angola is located in the south-west of Africa and is quite large. With 1,246,700 square kilometers, it is the seventh largest country on the African continent. Germany would fit in about three and a half times!

Which country is Algiers in? The country of Algeria is located in the north-west of Africa. Its neighboring countries are Mauritania, Morocco, Mali, Niger, Libya and Tunisia. To the north is the Mediterranean Sea. Algeria consists for the most part of the Sahara Desert. On the Mediterranean coast there is …

Algeria is located in North Africa. Together with Morocco and Tunisia, it is one of the Maghreb states. “Maghreb” is Arabic and means “West”. After all, these three countries are located in the west of North Africa.

The Palais de la Bahia (Bahia Palace) is a building from the late 19th century and was then the largest palace of its time. The gardens built on the palace grounds are now part of the ensemble of parks in Marrakech. As in other palaces and gardens of Morocco from …

In the middle of the hectic city of Marrakech, there is a Garden of Eden restored by Yves Saint Laurent, which invites you to let yourself be enchanted by this fascinating place and relax with its play of plants, colors and materials.

The Pyramids of Giza are burial places of pharaohs from Ancient Egypt. They are not only the most famous pyramids in Egypt: they are the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World to have survived the times. UNESCO declared the pyramids a World Heritage Site in 1979.

Egypt is located on two continents: most of the country is located in North Africa, but a small part is also in Asia. Neighboring countries are Libya, Sudan and Israel, and the country also borders the Gaza Strip. To the north of Egypt is the Mediterranean Sea, and to the …