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English: Combined map of Africa showing physical, political and population characteristics, in Mercator projection, with legend, as per 2018. Included are insets of the most populous parts of Africa: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya and South Africa. Compiled using QGIS and CC-0 Natural Earth geodata.
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 Victoria.
Anglophone Africa includes five countries in West Africa (The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and the most populous African country Nigeria, as well as a part of Cameroon) that are separated by Francophone countries, South Sudan, and a large continuous area in Southern Africa and the African Great Lakes.
English: Political map of the African continent as in 2011-07. Français : Carte politique du continent africain tel qu'en 07/2011. Lambert azimutal equal-area projection, WGS84 datum, standard meridian: 15°E, standard parallel: 0°
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on ast.wikipedia.org África; Usage on ha.wikipedia.org Afirka; Usage on hy.wikipedia.org Աֆրիկա
The Fra Mauro map of 1459 shows a more detailed picture of Africa as a continent, including the Cape of Diab at its southernmost point, reflecting an expedition of 1420. Sebastian Münster 's Cosmographia (1545) labels the Cape of Good Hope , reached by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, as caput bonae spei .
English: Blank political map of Africa as in 2011-07. Français : Carte politique vierge de l' Afrique telle qu'en 07/2011. Lambert azimutal equal-area projection, WGS84 datum, standard meridian: 15°E, standard parallel: 0°
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 ]