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The major cities are Belém and Santarém in Pará, and Manaus in Amazonas. [1] Living standards are below the national average. [ 1 ] The highest per capita income , US$2,888, in the region in 1994, was in Amazonas, while the lowest, US$901, was in Tocantins.
Cairo, Egypt is the third largest city in Africa and the largest one in the Arab world. Riverside of Giza, a mega-suburb of Cairo and the second-largest city in Egypt with over 9 million inhabitants. Oceanside of Luanda, the Angolan metropolis and a major hub for Africa's fossil fuel industries.
Population distribution in Brazil. Brazil has a high level of urbanization with 87.8% [1] of the population residing in urban and metropolitan areas. The criteria used by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) [2] in determining whether households are urban or rural, however, are based on political divisions, not on the developed environment.
Africa's population is the youngest among all the continents; [10] [11] the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. [12] Based on 2024 projections, Africa's population will reach 3.8 billion people by 2099. [13] Africa is the least wealthy inhabited continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth ...
Satellite view of Africa 1916 physical map of Africa. The average elevation of the continent approximates closely to 600 m (2,000 ft) above sea level, roughly near to the mean elevation of both North and South America, but considerably less than that of Asia, 950 m (3,120 ft). In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively ...
a map at a much smaller scale showing the whole globe and the position of the main map on that globe, or; showing "regions of interest" (such as cities) at a larger scale to show details that would not otherwise fit, or; showing places that do not fit on the main map, such as Alaska and Hawaii on maps of the United States, or the Shetland and ...
More than 260 dinosaur footprints discovered in Brazil and Cameroon provide further evidence that South America and Africa were once connected as part of a giant continent millions of years ago.
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.