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a.EST is GMT minus 5 hours
Sub-Saharan Africa's equatorial area is known as Equatorial Africa. There are 13-14 nations, so I'm guessing you want Ethiopia, Rwanda, Kenya, and Somalia, which are the most well-known. Savannas in the north and south, as well as mountains and tropical rain forests, characterize the landscape.
This question. Is making a question out of a sentence. Here is a graph of the global temps over the millennia.
I assume that the question refers to the political affiliation of the Islands (They are Islands in the Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean, south of Japan) - they are politically linked to the US - the correct answer is a). For example the Mariana islands have a commonwealth status within the US.
