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New sources of oil are being located in sub-Saharan Africa more frequently than anywhere else. Of all new sources of oil, 1 ⁄ 3 are in sub-Saharan Africa. [174] Sub-Saharan Africa is a key player in the global minerals market, producing over 70%of the world's cobalt and hosting about 50%of its reserves in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
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.
Sub-Saharan Africa. Eastern Africa; Middle Africa; Southern Africa; Western Africa; by geography: North Africa (Also known as Saharan Africa) Maghreb (AKA Northwest Africa, also including Mauritania, which most geographers consider as a part of West Africa; some geographers consider Libya as a part of Northeast Africa and Western Sahara as a ...
Roman expeditions to Sub-Saharan Africa west of the Nile river. Africa is named for the Afri people who settled in the area of current-day Tunisia. The Roman province of Africa spanned the Mediterranean coast of what is now Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria. The parts of North Africa north of the Sahara were well known in antiquity. However, the ...
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 ]
The United Nations geoscheme is a system which divides 248 countries and territories in the world into six continental regions, 22 geographical subregions, and two intermediary regions. [1] It was devised by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) based on the M49 coding classification . [ 2 ]
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. Sub-Saharan Africa just hit 100 World Heritage ...
South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone (ZPCAS or ZOPACAS): group of nations along the Atlantic coasts of Sub-Saharan Africa and South America, formed with a special focus on opposing nuclear proliferation in the region; SSA: Sub-Saharan Africa; SWANA: Southwest Asia-North Africa, used as an alternative term for the wider Middle East.