AFRICA for Kids - 6 Interesting Facts about Africa

Hello everyone! Welcome back! Today we're gonna learn about Africa! Come along and let's do this! Guess which continent is the hottest? Well, you guessed right! It's Africa! Africa's the hottest Most days of the year have a temperature of over 20 degrees celsius. Africa is the second largest continent on earth and it has about 54 countries. Do you know that Africa is bigger than USA, Canada and India put together? Yes, that's true! It's incredible, isn't it? The African savannah has lots of beautiful wildlife. You'll find the big cats, lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards and the others like hyenas, elephants, giraffes, gazelles, hares, deer, zebras, antelopes, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles and loads more. Millions of people come and visit the savannah every year Weather, rain or shine, the highest mountain in Africa is called Mount Kilimanjaro. It is in Tanzania which is a country in Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest single free standing mountain above sea level in the world. It is about 5,895 metres above sea level and 4,900 metres above its plateau base. The people of Africa speak about 2,000 languages and they have different cultures, clothing, food and ways of doing things. Africa has the largest land mammal which is the African elephant. It also has the tallest mammal which is the giraffe and the fastest mammal on earth which is the cheetah. Thanks for watching and I hope that you have learned something today. Bye for now.