Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, is located in:

Explanation

Mount Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania, not Kenya, even though it lies close to the Kenya border. Britannica identifies Kilimanjaro as a volcanic massif in northeastern Tanzania and notes that its central cone, Kibo, rises to 5,895 metres, making it the highest point in Africa. This matches the exam explanation: Kilimanjaro is a dormant stratovolcano, and its height and position make it a standard world-geography location question. The key trap is the proximity to Kenya; candidates often associate the name with East Africa generally or confuse it with Mount Kenya, but the country asked in the question is Tanzania.

Why the other options are wrong

• (A) Kenya is a tempting distractor because Kilimanjaro is near the Kenya border, but the mountain itself is in northeastern Tanzania; Mount Kenya is the separate Kenyan peak.
• (C) Ethiopia has the Ethiopian Highlands, but those are separate from Kilimanjaro and do not locate Africa's highest peak.
• (D) South Africa is associated with the Drakensberg range, while Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania.

Concept

This tests the world-geography habit of linking major physical features to their exact countries, not just their broad regions. It recurs in RAS because map-based location traps often use neighbouring countries or similarly famous landforms as distractors.

Source

• Encyclopaedia Britannica

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