African Rivers Crossword Puzzle

About the African Rivers Crossword Puzzle

This puzzle features rivers across Africa, including major waterways, tributaries, and regional rivers. Look for the Nile, Congo, Zambezi, Okavango, and White Volta, among many others. It is a geography-themed activity for students learning about African landscapes, travelers curious about the continent, and anyone who enjoys finding place names in a word grid.

This crossword draws on 53 clues about African Rivers. Each grid uses a different handful and fits them together a new way, so press New puzzle for another whenever you finish. The answers are in the answer key when you print, and behind the Reveal button when you play.

Sample clues

• •Congo tributary joining near Basoko (7 letters)
• •Burkina Faso waterway joining a major Ghanaian channel (10 letters)
• •Morocco’s longest waterway, flowing toward the Sahara (4 letters)
• •Angolan and Congolese tributary of the Congo (5 letters)
• •Chad-region tributary joining the Chari (6 letters)
• •West African waterway flowing through a vast inland delta (5 letters)
• •Zimbabwean and Mozambican waterway reaching the Indian Ocean (6 letters)
• •Waterway forming much of the Mauritania border (7 letters)

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