NORTH AFRICA

Overview

North Africa is the Northern part of the African continent.

Countries

Algeria (Algiers) The second-largest country in Africa.

Egypt (Cairo, Alexandria) Home of the ancient Egyptian civilization, with its temples, hieroglyphs, mummies.

Libya (Tripoli) Large open spaces with more than 90% of the country being desert or semidesert.

Morocco (Rabat) Situated on both the North Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

Tunisia (Tunis) Located in the very centre of Mediterranean Africa

Western Sahara Governance is in dispute between Morocco and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), but the majority of the region is occupied by Morocco.

Cities

• Algiers
• Cairo
• Casablanca
• Marrakech
• Rabat
• Tunis

Other destinations

• Ceuta - Spanish enclave bordering Morocco
• Melilla - Spanish enclave bordering Morocco

Get in

By boat

There are some ferries from Italy, notably Sicily and also the Canary Islands.

See Ferries in the Mediterranean?.

Stay safe

Aviod drinking untreated ground water.