Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Angola





Some companies of Angola include:

Angola Telecom
Banco Africano de Investimentos: BAI
Banco Espírito Santo Angola: BESA
Banco de Poupança e Crédito:
Banco do Comércio e Indústria: BCI
Empresa Nacional de Electricidade de Angola: Company National of Electricity of Angola
Endiama: Diamonds
MSTelecom
Sonangol Group (wikilink): Oil and Gas exploration, field management, distribution
TAAG Angola Airlines



Sunday, June 24, 2007

Nigeria


Southern Nigeria; click for a larger version. In Nigeria, oil is located in Delta State. Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Angola are oil export leaders in Atlantic Africa.

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Nigerian Groups' Chinese names and generalized locations

約魯巴 Yoruba - (Southeast Nigeria in Lagos and north of Lagos)
豪萨 Hausa - (the North)
富拉尼 Fulani - (the North)
伊博 Igbo - (the Southwest; Biafra; Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States)
伊贾 Ijaw - (Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States)
伊比比奧 Ibibio - (Cross River State; Akwa Ibom State)

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Mozambique







Mozambique is growing cashew and building a stock market, and sometimes it rains too much.

Gauteng Province





Gauteng Province and KwaZulu-Natal Province each have about 10 mm people. Both Johannesburg and Pretoria are located in Gauteng; Pretoria is located in Tshwane District.

Madagascar

..also known as The Malagasy Republic.



Tuesday, June 19, 2007

RSA



Names use a combination of sound and meaning. "North, West, East, Free, State and Zulu" are what they mean; "Kwa, Natal, Cape, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Gauteng" are what they sound like. In Chinese, "Northwest" is "Westnorth".



Limpopo/林波波 River

Some time ago, I copied these from the Chinese Wikipedia's article "North Africa" and used the internet's free "GNU Image Manipulation Program" to create the placard, adding an amethyst color. I was thinking "I don't know what these are", and "What are they?".