Africa (disambiguation). Africa Area30,221,532 km2(11,668,599 - TopicsExpress



          

Africa (disambiguation). Africa Area30,221,532 km2(11,668,599 sq mi) Population1,032,532,974 [ 1 ](2013, 2nd) Pop. density30.51/km2(about 80/sq mi) Demonym African Countries54 (and 2 disputed) ( list of countries) Dependencies External (3) List Mayotte Réunion Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Internal (4) List Canary Islands Ceuta Madeira Islands Melilla Languages List of languages Time zones UTC-1to UTC+4 Largest cities List of metropolitan areas in Africa List of cities in Africa Lagos Cairo Kinshasa- Brazzaville Johannesburg Mogadishu Khartoum- Omdurman Dar es Salaam Alexandria Abidjan Casablanca Map of Africa Africais the worlds second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers six percent of the Earths total surface area and 20.4 percent of the total land area. [ 2 ]With 1.1 billion people as of 2013, it accounts for about 15% of the worlds human population. [ 3 ]The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Seato the north, both the Suez Canaland the Red Seaalong the Sinai Peninsulato the northeast, the Indian Oceanto the southeast, and the Atlantic Oceanto the west. The continent includes Madagascarand various archipelagoes. It has 54 fully recognized sovereign states( countries), 9 territoriesand twode factoindependent states with limited or no recognition. [ 4 ] Africas population is the youngest among all the continents; 50 percent of Africans are 19 years old or younger. [ 5 ]Despite many fast-growing economies, Africa continues to have social issues plaguing their nations. Algeriais Africas largest country by area, and Nigeriais the largest by population. Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the origin of humansand the Hominidae clade( great apes), as evidencedby the discovery of the earliest hominidsand their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago, including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilisand H. ergaster– with the earliest Homo sapiens(modern human) found in Ethiopiabeing dated to circa 200,000 years ago. [ 6 ]Africa straddles the equatorand encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperateto southern temperate zones. [ 7 ]
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