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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 ...
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.
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 sparsely populated 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.
In 2008, Angola was the preferred destination for Portuguese migrants in Africa. [110] 300,000 white people with Portuguese heritage currently live in Angola. 500,000 are mixed race, half white and half black. [111] The majority of Angolan whites live in Luanda, the capital of Angola. They represent 260,000 from the 2.5 million inhabitants or ...
Sub-Saharan Africa are expected to make more than half of the global population increase projected through 2050. [ 16 ] The reason for the uncontrolled population growth since the mid 20th century is the decrease of infant mortality and general increase of life expectancy without a corresponding reduction in fertility rate , due to a very ...
The total fertility rate (children per woman) for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.7 as of 2018, the highest in the world. [221] All countries in sub-Saharan Africa had TFRs (average number of children) above replacement level in 2019 and accounted for 27.1% of global livebirths. [222] In 2021, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 29% of global births. [223]
As Rwanda’s first ever World Heritage Sites enter the list, UNESCO has put forward a plan to help other nations nominate their national treasures.
The flag of Somaliland consists of a horizontal tricolour of green, white, and red, with the black star of Africa located in the centre. On the green stripe, there is the Shahada in white Thuluth script, the flag's colours are taken from the flag of the Somali National Movement. 1975–present: Flag of the Western Sahara Morocco (occupied lands)