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Waterfalls in Africa

93 waterfalls in Africa, spread across 30 countries. The best known is Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. The 93 best known are below; the rest are on the map.

In Africa
93
Countries
30
Share of world
5%
Little known
46 of 93

Waterfalls in Africa, by country

Every country here with at least one. Those with a page of their own link through.

Waterfalls elsewhere

Europe626 Asia369 North America503 South America55 Oceania159

Questions about this page

What are the best known waterfalls in Africa?

Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe leads the list. Waterfall on the Zambezi River in Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Which country in Africa has the most?

South Africa (11), Ghana (9) and Zambia (9). That ranks how much Wikidata records, not what exists on the ground.

How much of the world is that?

93 of the 1,807 waterfalls on this atlas, so 5%. The rest are on the worldwide page.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.

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