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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.
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.
Map English short, formal names, and ISO Status Domestic short name(s) and formal name(s) Capital Population Area Currency Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic [n 6] Claimed by Morocco as its southernmost provinces Recognized by the African Union and 46 UN members and South Ossetia as the representative government of Western Sahara
Below is a list of countries in Africa by area. [1] Algeria has been the largest country in Africa and the Arab world since the division of Sudan in 2011. The largest African country not located in the Arab world is the Democratic Republic of the Congo located in Central Africa , which is also the second largest in the continent.
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 ...
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The Index on Africa directory from The Norwegian Council for Africa; Aluka - Digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa; Politics. Africa Action Africa Action is the oldest organization in the United States working on African affairs. It is a national organization that works for political, economic and social justice in Africa.
Map of Africa for use on Wikivoyage. Multilingual: in separate layers data for language codes: en, eo, fr, nl, ru, uk. Date: 15 April 2007: Source: Own work based on the blank map of Africa: Author: Nick Roux and Peter Fitzgerald, adapted by Cacahuate, Burmesedays, Joelf, Globe-trotter, LtPowers and Piet-c. Other versions: PNG files: English ...