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3 days ago · 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 ...
- 46.1/km² (119.4/sq mi) (2021)
- 54+2*+5** (*disputed) (**territories)
6 days ago · western Africa, region of the western African continent comprising the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Western Africa is a term used in the Encyclopædia ...
3 days ago · Area 1,838,490 square miles (4,761,667 square km). Pop. (2001 est.) 74,084,000. North Africa, region of Africa comprising the modern countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. The geographic entity North Africa has no single accepted definition. It has been regarded by some as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Morocco in the west ...
3 days ago · East Africa The coast until 1856. The earliest written accounts of the East African coast occur in the Periplus Maris Erythraei—apparently written by a Greek merchant living in Egypt in the second half of the 1st century ce —and in Ptolemy’s Guide to Geography, the East African section of which, in its extant form, probably represents a compilation of geographic knowledge available at ...
2 days ago · Pre-colonial states in Africa (excluding East African states such as Ajuran, Mutapa, Mapungubwe, Maravi, Imerina and Kilwa) This is a list of kingdoms and empires in Africa throughout history. The vast majority of kingdoms included in this list existed prior to the Scramble for Africa (c. 1880–1914) when almost all of the continent came under ...
Apr 11, 2024 · As you can see, 16 African countries — like Botswana, Senegal and Zambia — also land on it. Level two includes countries like France, Germany and Spain. It also includes 20 African countries like South Africa, Tanzania and Ghana. Overall, 36 out of 54 countries are considered safe for travel. That's around 67 percent of the continent.
Apr 2, 2024 · The HDI top 4 in Africa includes 4 of the 6 North African countries (among the 47 continental countries in Africa; I’m excluding island countries). Another country in North Africa is in 8th position — and the last of the region is Mauritania, which is often not included with the North.
