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  2. Climate of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Southern Africa has a transition to subtropical and temperate climates (green and yellow), and more desert or semi-arid regions, centered on Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa. [1] A map of Africa showing the ecological break around the Sahara Desert. The climate of Africa is a range of climates such as the equatorial climate, the tropical wet ...

  3. Climate of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The climate of South Africa is determined by South Africa 's situation between 22°S and 35°S, in the Southern Hemisphere 's subtropical zone, and its location between two oceans, Atlantic and the Indian. It has a greater variety of climates than most other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and it has lower average temperatures than other ...

  4. Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia

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    Southern Africa has a transition to subtropical or temperate climates (green and yellow), and more desert or semi-desert regions, centered on Namibia and Botswana. Sub-Saharan Africa has a wide variety of climate zones or biomes. South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in particular are considered megadiverse countries. It has a ...

  5. Sahel - Wikipedia

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    Tropical savanna climates (Aw), Hot Semi-arid (BSh), Hot Desert (BWh) The Sahel region ( / səˈhɛl /; from Arabic ساحل (sāḥil [ˈsaːħil]) 'coast, shore') or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa. It is the transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north.

  6. Köppen climate classification - Wikipedia

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    The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, [1] [2] with several later modifications by Köppen, notably in 1918 and 1936. [3] [4] Later, German climatologist Rudolf Geiger (1894–1981) introduced ...

  7. Afrotropical realm - Wikipedia

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    Afrotropical realm. The Afrotropical realm (in green) The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. [1] It was formerly known as the Ethiopian Zone or Ethiopian Region .

  8. Geography of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Geography of Africa. Africa is a continent comprising 63 political territories, representing the largest of the great southward projections from the main mass of Earth 's surface. [1] Within its regular outline, it comprises an area of 30,368,609 km 2 (11,725,385 sq mi), excluding adjacent islands.

  9. Climate change in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Climate change in Africa. Graph showing temperature change in Africa between 1901 and 2021, with red colour being warmer and blue being colder than average (the average temperature during 1971–2000 is taken as the reference point for these changes). Climate change in Africa is an increasingly serious threat as Africa is among the most ...