Geography of Africa Geography of Africa Africa is a continent comprising 63 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth's surface. Within its regular outline, it comprises an area of , excluding adjacent islands. Its highest mountain is Mount Kilimanjaro, its largest lake is Lake Victoria Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea and from much of Asia by the Red Sea, Africa is joined to Asia at its northeast extremity by the Isthmus of Suez (which in transected by the Suez Canal), wide. For geopolitical purposes, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt – east on
Desert Shores, California Desert Shores, California Desert Shores (formerly Fish Springs) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California, US. It is part of the El Centro Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is located at the western shore of the Salton Sea in the Imperial Valley, within the Colorado Desert ecoregion. It is west-northwest of Calipatria. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all land. The population was 1,104 at the 2010 census, up from 792 in 2000. The 2010 United States Census reported that Desert Shores had a population of 1,104. The population