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  2. Africa - Wikipedia

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    Africa. Africa is the world's second largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth 's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [7] With 1.4 billion people [1] [2] as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world's human ...

  3. West Africa - Wikipedia

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    West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa.The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).

  4. List of cities in Africa by population - Wikipedia

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    Riverside of Giza, a mega-suburb of Cairo and the second-largest city in Egypt with over 9 million inhabitants. Skyline of Dar es Salaam: the largest city in Tanzania and in eastern Africa. Johannesburg, the largest city and economic hub of South Africa and all of southern Africa. Abidjan, Ivory Coast 's largest city and economic centre, also ...

  5. History of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary political map of Africa (Includes Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa) Map showing the states, people, and material cultures of the African continent c. 1800 BC, but missing the Kintampo civilisation and Tichitt culture in West Africa. Obelisk at temple of Luxor, Egypt. c. 1200 BC Ethiopian king Menelik II at the Battle of Adwa in 1896

  6. File:Political Map of Africa.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:Political Map of Africa.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 494 × 599 pixels. Other resolutions: 198 × 240 pixels | 396 × 480 pixels | 633 × 768 pixels | 844 × 1,024 pixels | 1,688 × 2,048 pixels | 676 × 820 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.

  7. Gabon - Wikipedia

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    Gabon (/ ɡ ə ˈ b ɒ n / gə-BON; French pronunciation: ⓘ; Sangu: Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (French: République gabonaise), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west.

  8. Administrative divisions of Liberia - Wikipedia

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    A map of Liberia, showing Liberian counties and major cities. Liberia is divided into fifteen first-level administrative divisions called counties, which, in turn, are subdivided into a total of 90 second-level administrative divisions called districts and further subdivided into third-level administrative divisions called clans.

  9. Central African Republic - Wikipedia

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    A village in the Central African Republic. The Central African Republic is a landlocked nation within the interior of the African continent. It is bordered by Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of the Congo. The country lies between latitudes 2° and 11°N, and longitudes 14° and 28°E.