Elgon, Mount, an extinct volcanic cone northeast of Lake Victoria, on the Uganda-Kenya border in Africa.
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Much of Western Africa sits less than 1,000 feet above sea level. Western Africa stretches from the coastal borders of the Atlantic Ocean and to the Sahara Desert.
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