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  2. Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia

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    Combined green: Definition of "sub-Saharan Africa" as used in the statistics of United Nations institutions Lighter green: The Sudan, classified as a part of North Africa by the United Nations Statistics Division [2] instead of Eastern Africa, though the organization states that "the assignment of countries or areas to specific groupings is for statistical convenience and does not imply any ...

  3. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa

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    It lists 56 sovereign states (54 of which are member states of the United Nations), two non-sovereign (dependent) territories of non-African sovereign states, and nine sub-national regions of non-African sovereign states. Malta and parts of France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain are located on the African continental plate, some considerably closer ...

  4. Category:Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa - Wikipedia

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    W. West African countries ‎ (21 C, 20 P) Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa. Countries in Africa by region.

  5. List of regions of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Gold Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast and Pepper Coast. Rhodesia (region) (Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia) Mayombe. The Congo Basin is the rainforest region. The Chad Basin is the largest endorheic drainage basin in Africa, centered on Lake Chad. East African Rift. The region contains Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda.

  6. List of ethnic groups of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Malayo-Polynesian (Malagasy) Indo-European (Afrikaaner) The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having their own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various Afroasiatic, Khoisan, Niger-Congo, and Nilo-Saharan populations.

  7. List of African countries by population - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the current 54 African countries sorted by population, also sorted by normalized demographic projections from the most recently available census or demographic data. Africa is the fastest growing continent, currently increasing by 2.35% per year as of 2021. [ 1 ] Africa is also the youngest continent, as 60% of Africa is 24 ...

  8. List of African countries by Human Development Index

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    List. The table below presents the latest Human Development Index (HDI) for countries in Africa as included in the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report, released on 13 March 2024 and based on data collected in 2024. [1] As of 2024, All African UN member states are included in the report.

  9. United Nations geoscheme for Africa - Wikipedia

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    UN geoscheme subregions of Africa: Eastern Africa. Middle Africa. Northern Africa. Southern Africa. Western Africa. The following is an alphabetical list of subregions in the United Nations geoscheme for Africa, used by the United Nations and maintained by the UNSD department for statistical purposes. [1]