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958:Lower Egypt
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277:Nyamuragira
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1224:Yorubaland
1135:Gold Coast
1060:Maputaland
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1040:Thembuland
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973:Nile Delta
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672:Chad Basin
640:Cape Lopez
492:2011-12-19
480:Birdlife.
423:2011-12-19
383:Clark 1969
335:References
281:Nyiragongo
199:White Nile
179:Nile Basin
1320:Negroland
1240:Aethiopia
1110:False Bay
787:Al-Habash
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750:Kavirondo
228:Mountains
218:Lake Kivu
175:Lake Kivu
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538:. IUCN.
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323:See also
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620:Central
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261:Ptolemy
122:Geology
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