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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. Geography of Africa - Wikipedia

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    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. Its highest mountain is Kilimanjaro; its largest lake is Lake ...

  4. List of regions of Africa - Wikipedia

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    The Maghreb is a region of northwest Africa encompassing the coastlands and Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The Sahara Desert is the massive but largely empty region in North Africa that contains the world's largest hot deserts; Sub-Saharan Africa is the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara.

  5. Portal: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. With 1.4 billion people0 as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world's human population.

  6. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa

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    This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa. It includes fully recognised states, states with limited or zero recognition, and dependent territories of both African and non-African states. It lists 56 sovereign states (54 of which are member states of the United Nations ), two non-sovereign (dependent) territories of ...

  7. History of Africa - Wikipedia

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    The history of Africa begins with the emergence of hominids, archaic humans and — around 300,000–250,000 years ago — anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), in East Africa, and continues unbroken into the present as a patchwork of diverse and politically developing nation states. [1]

  8. Outline of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Outline of Africa. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the continent Africa: Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. It is famous for its savanna, its jungles, and the Sahara (desert).

  9. List of African countries by area - Wikipedia

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    Below is a list of countries in Africa by area. Algeria has been the largest country in Africa and the Arab world since the division of Sudan in 2011. Seychelles is the smallest country in Africa overall, with The Gambia being the smallest country on continental Africa.

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