Although
tropical Africa is most familiar in the
West as depicted by its rain forests, this region of
Africa is far more diverse. While the tropics are thought of as regions with warm to hot moist climates caused by
latitude and the
tropical rain belt, the
geology of areas, particularly mountain chains, and geographical relation to continental and regional scale winds impact the overall parts of areas , also, making the tropics run from arid to humid in West Africa. The area has very serious overpopulation problems.