THE GREAT AFRICA - Introduction

Africa

Continent

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers six percent of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4 percent of the total land area.Wikipedia

Population: 1.033 billion (2011) Area: 30,221,532 km²

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Africa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers six percent of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4 percent of the total land area.^[2] With 1.0 billion people (as of 2009, see table), it accounts for about 15% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagoes. It has 54 fully recognized sovereign states ("countries"), 9 territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition.^[3]

Africa's name is derived from an ancient area in modern day Tunisia known as Ifriqiya or sunny place, in Tamazight. Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago – including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster – with the earliest Homo sapiens (modern human) found in Ethiopia being dated to circa 200,000 years ago.^[4] Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.

All Countries

·         Algeria

·         Angola

·         Benin

·         Botswana

·         Burkina Faso

·         Burundi

·         Cameroon

·         Cape Verde

·         Central African Republic

·         Chad

·         Comoros

·         Congo-Brazzaville

·         Congo-Kinshasa

·         Cote d'Ivoire

·         Djibouti

·         Egypt

·         Equatorial Guinea

·         Eritrea

·         Ethiopia

·         Gabon

·         Gambia

·         Ghana

·         Guinea

·         Guinea Bissau

·         Kenya

·         Lesotho

·         Liberia

·         Libya

·         Madagascar

·         Malawi

·         Mali

·         Mauritania

·         Mauritius

·         Morocco

·         Mozambique

·         Namibia

·         Niger

·         Nigeria

·         Rwanda

·         Senegal

·         Seychelles

·         Sierra Leone

·         Somalia

·         South Africa

·         South Sudan

·         Sudan

·         Swaziland

·         São Tomé and Príncipe

·         Tanzania

·         Togo

·         Tunisia

·         Uganda

·         Western Sahara

·         Zambia

·         Zimbabwe

Africa-Wide

Central Africa

·         Angola

·         Burundi

·         Cameroon

·         Central African Republic

·         Chad

·         Congo-Brazzaville

·         Congo-Kinshasa

·         Equatorial Guinea

·         Gabon

·         Rwanda

·         São Tomé and Príncipe

East Africa

·         Burundi

·         Comoros

·         Djibouti

·         Eritrea

·         Ethiopia

·         Kenya

·         Madagascar

·         Mauritius

·         Rwanda

·         Seychelles

·         Somalia

·         South Sudan

·         Sudan

·         Tanzania

·         Uganda

North Africa

·         Algeria

·         Egypt

·         Libya

·         Morocco

·         Tunisia

·         Western Sahara

Southern Africa

·         Angola

·         Botswana

·         Lesotho

·         Malawi

·         Mozambique

·         Namibia

·         South Africa

·         Swaziland

·         Zambia

·         Zimbabwe

West Africa

·         Benin

·         Burkina Faso

·         Cameroon

·         Cape Verde

·         Cote d'Ivoire

·         Gambia

·         Ghana

·         Guinea

·         Guinea Bissau

·         Liberia

·         Mali

·         Mauritania

·         Niger

·         Nigeria

·         Senegal

·         Sierra Leone

·         São Tomé and Príncipe

·         Togo