1The river Nile stretches approximately six thousand six hundred and fifty kilometres from its source through eleven African countries.
2Its principal source lies near latitude two degrees south of the equator, close to the shores of Lake Victoria.
3The Amazon discharges two hundred and nine thousand cubic metres of fresh water into the Atlantic every single second.
4That astonishing volume exceeds the flow of the next seven largest rivers in the world combined by some margin.
5Mount Kilimanjaro, spelled K I L I M A N J A R O, rises five thousand eight hundred and ninety five metres.
6The Mariana Trench in the western Pacific plunges to nearly eleven thousand metres below the surface of the sea.
7Greenland covers two point one six million square kilometres of territory, making it the largest island on Earth.
8Yet its entire population numbers fewer than fifty seven thousand inhabitants, mostly living along the ice free southwestern coast.
9The Sahara desert has expanded by roughly ten percent over the course of the past one hundred years alone.
10Professor Okafor Nwachukwu, that is N W A C H U K W U, mapped the region extensively.
11His expeditions between nineteen sixty two and nineteen eighty one surveyed more than forty thousand square kilometres of remote terrain.
12Students should note all of these figures carefully, as they will appear in the examination on the fifteenth of next month.