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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Landforms of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (10 C, 6 P) ... Landforms of South Africa (24 C, 8 P) Landforms of South Sudan (6 C, 2 P) Landforms of Sudan (8 C, 3 ...
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 ...
Landforms of Africa by country (72 C) Landforms of Africa by dependent territory (7 C) A. Archipelagoes of Africa (15 C, 4 P) B. Basins of Africa (2 C, 11 P)
The total fertility rate (children per woman) for Sub-Saharan Africa is 4.7 as of 2018, the highest in the world. [220] 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. [221] In 2021, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 29% of global births. [222]
About 180 million years ago, a mantle plume under southern Gondwana caused bulging of the continental crust in the area that would later become southern Africa. [2] Within 10–20 million years, rift valleys formed on either side of the central bulge and flooded to become the proto-Atlantic Ocean and proto-Indian Ocean more or less along the present southern African coastline and separating ...