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Africa

Africa abounds with bustling metropolises, diverse people, and amazingly varied and beautiful landscapes. Africa is home to over 50 countries, more than any other continent in the world, and is the second largest continent in terms of both land area and population.
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is the most densely populated area of Africa.

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is marked by sub-tropical, semiarid and temperate climates, in contrast to the tropical savannas and dense jungles of .

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In , beautiful mosques, bustling markets, and ancient ruins lie between the Mediterranean coast and the Sahara Desert.

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is the part of Africa around and east of the Great Rift Valley, a land feature stretching from the Red Sea in the north, the Guardafui Channel in the east, and the Mozambique Channel in the southeast.

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is a region of Africa bounded by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the African Rift Valley in the east, the plains in the north, and the Zambezi basin in the south.

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The region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.

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The are in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. is by far the biggest, and a continent on its own when it comes to wildlife.

Africa

Latitude of center
1° north
Longitude of center
24° east
Population
1,100,000,000
Open­Street­Map ID
node 36966057
Open­Street­Map Feature
place=­continent
Wiki­data ID
Q15
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Also Known As

  • Abkhazian: Tafrikt
  • Abkhazian: Африка
  • Achinese: Afrika
  • Adyghe: Африкэ
  • Afar: Afrika
  • Afrikaans: Afrika-kontinent
  • Afrikaans: Afrika
  • Afrikaans: vasteland van Afrika
  • Akan: Abibiman
  • Albanian: Afrika
  • Albanian: Afrikë
  • Algerian Arabic: إفريقيا
  • Amharic: አፍሪቃ
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): Ἀφρική
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): Ἀφρικὴ
  • Angika: अफ्रीका
  • Arabic: Aprika
  • Arabic: أفريقيا
  • Arabic: أفريقية
  • Arabic: إفريقيا
  • Arabic: إفريقية
  • Arabic: القارة الأفريقية
  • Aragonese: Africa
  • Armenian: Ափրիկէ
  • Armenian: Աֆրիկա
  • Arpitan: Africa
  • Assamese: আফ্ৰিকা
  • Asturian: África
  • Atayal: Xweco
  • Avaric: Afrika
  • Avaric: Африка
  • Awadhi: अफ्रिका
  • Aymara: Aphrika
  • Azerbaijani: Afrika
  • Balinese: Afrika
  • Bambara: Afrika
  • Banjar: Aprika
  • Bashkir: Африка
  • Basque: Afrika
  • Batak Toba: Aprika
  • Bavarian: Afrika
  • Belarusian: Афрыка
  • Bengali: আফ্রিকা
  • Bhojpuri: अफरीका
  • Bhojpuri: अफ़्रीका
  • Bhojpuri: अफिरका
  • Bhojpuri: अफ्रीका
  • Bhojpuri: ऍफ़्रिका
  • Bishnupriya: আফ্রিকা
  • Bislama: Afrika
  • Bosnian: Afrika
  • Brahui: Afríká
  • Breton: Afrika
  • Bulgarian: Африка
  • Burmese: အာဖရိက
  • Catalan: continent africà
  • Catalan: Àfrica
  • Cebuano: Aprika
  • Central Bikol: Aprika
  • Central Kurdish: ئەفریقا
  • Central Kurdish: ئەفریقیا
  • Central Kurdish: ئەفریکا
  • Chamorro: Africa
  • Chavacano: Africa
  • Chechen: Африка
  • Cherokee: ᎬᎿᎦᏍᏛ
  • Cheyenne: Mo'hetaneho'e
  • Chinese: Hui-chiu
  • Chinese: 阿非利加洲
  • Chinese: 陽光之地
  • Chinese: 非洲
  • Chinese: 非洲大陸
  • Chinese: 黑暗大陸
  • Chinese: 黑暗的大陸
  • Church Slavic: Афрїка
  • Chuvash: Африка
  • Cornish: Afrika
  • Corsican: Africa
  • Crimean Tatar: Afrika
  • Croatian: Afrika
  • Czech: Afrika
  • Dagbani: Africa
  • Dagbani: Afrika
  • Danish: Afrika
  • Dimli (individual language): Afrika
  • Dinka: Apirïka
  • Dotyali: अफ्रिका
  • Dutch: Afrika
  • Dzongkha: ཨཕ་རི་ཀ་
  • Eastern Mari: Африка
  • Egyptian Arabic: افريقيا
  • English: African continent
  • English: Ancient Libya
  • Erzya: Африка Мастор
  • Esperanto: Afriko
  • Estonian: Aafrika
  • Extremaduran: África
  • Fanti: Africa(Ebibirim)
  • Faroese: Afrika
  • Fiji Hindi: Africa
  • Fijian: Aferika
  • Finnish: Africa
  • Finnish: Afrikka
  • Fon: Aflika
  • Fon: Afrika
  • French: Afrique
  • Friulian: Afriche
  • Fulah: Afirik
  • Gagauz: Afrika
  • Galician: África
  • Galician: آفريقا
  • Gan Chinese: 非洲
  • Ganda: Afirika
  • Georgian: აფრიკა
  • German: Afrika
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Africa
  • Gilaki: آفریقا
  • Goan Konkani: आफ्रिका खंड
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳
  • Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰
  • Greek: Αφρική
  • Guarani: Africa
  • Guarani: Ahyrika
  • Guarani: Áfrika
  • Guianese Creole French: Lafrik
  • Gujarati: Aflika
  • Gujarati: આફ્રિકા
  • Gun: Aflika
  • Haitian: Afrik
  • Hakka Chinese: Fî-chû
  • Hausa: Afirka
  • Hausa: Fî-chû
  • Hausa: ʻApelika
  • Hawaiian: ʻApelika
  • Hebrew: אפריקה
  • Hindi: अंधेरा महाद्वीप
  • Hindi: अफ़्रीका
  • Hindi: अफ्रीका
  • Hungarian: Afrika
  • Icelandic: Afríka
  • Ido: Afrika
  • Igbo: Eluàlà
  • Iloko: Aprika
  • Inari Sami: Afrik
  • Indonesian: Afrika
  • Indonesian: Libya Kuno
  • Indonesian: benua Afrika
  • Ingush: Аьприк
  • Interlingua: Africa
  • Interlingue: Africa
  • Inuktitut: ᐊᑉᕆᖄ
  • Inupiaq: Apirikaq
  • Irish: Afraic
  • Irish: An Afraic
  • Irish: an Afraic
  • Irish: mór-roinn na hAfraice
  • Italian: Africa
  • Jamaican Creole English: Afrika
  • Jamaican Creole English: Afrikan kantinent
  • Japanese: Afurika
  • Japanese: あふりか
  • Japanese: アフリカ
  • Japanese: アフリカ大陸
  • Japanese: 阿
  • Japanese: 阿州
  • Japanese: 阿弗利加
  • Japanese: 阿弗利加大陸
  • Japanese: 阿洲
  • Javanese: Afrika
  • Kabardian: Африкэ
  • Kabiyè: Afrɩka tɛtʊ tɔm
  • Kabyle: Tafriqt
  • Kalaallisut: Afrika
  • Kalmyk: Априк
  • Kannada: ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾ
  • Kannada: ಜಗತ್ತಿನ ಎರಡನೆ ದೊಡ್ಡ ಭೂಖಂಡ
  • Kara-Kalpak: Afrika
  • Karachay-Balkar: Африка
  • Kashmiri: اَفریٖقہ
  • Kashubian: Afrika
  • Kazakh: Африка
  • Khmer: អាហ្វ្រិក
  • Kikuyu: Abĩrika
  • Kinyarwanda: Afurika
  • Kirghiz: Африка
  • Komi-Permyak: Африка
  • Komi: Африка
  • Kongo: Afelika
  • Korean: 검은 대륙
  • Korean: 아불리가
  • Korean: 아주
  • Korean: 아프리카
  • Kotava: Afrika
  • Kurdish: Afrîka
  • Kölsch: Affrekah
  • Ladin: Africa
  • Ladino: Afrika
  • Lao: Aprika
  • Lao: ທະວີບອາຟຣິກາ
  • Lao: ອາຟຣິກາ
  • Latgalian: Afrika
  • Latin: Africa
  • Latvian: Āfrika
  • Lezghian: Африка
  • Ligurian: Africa
  • Limburgan: Afrika
  • Lingala: Afilíka
  • Lingua Franca Nova: Africa
  • Literary Chinese: 阿非利加洲
  • Lithuanian: Afrika
  • Livvi: Afriekku
  • Lojban: frikytu'a
  • Lombard: Africa
  • Low German: Afrika
  • Lower Sorbian: Afrika
  • Luxembourgish: Afrika
  • Macedo-Romanian: Africa
  • Macedonian: Африка
  • Maithili: अफ्रिका
  • Malagasy: Afrika
  • Malay: Afrika
  • Malay: افريکا
  • Malayalam: ആഫ്രിക്ക
  • Maltese: Afrika
  • Manipuri: ꯑꯐꯔꯤꯀꯥ
  • Manx: Yn Affrick
  • Manx: yn Affrick
  • Maori: Āwherika
  • Marathi: आफ्रिका
  • Mazanderani: آفریخا
  • Mazanderani: آفریقا
  • Min Dong Chinese: Hĭ-ciŭ
  • Min Dong Chinese: 阿非利加洲
  • Min Dong Chinese: 非洲
  • Min Nan Chinese: Hui-chiu
  • Minangkabau: Afrika
  • Mingrelian: აფრიკა
  • Mirandese: África
  • Moksha: Африкань
  • Moksha: Африкась
  • Mon: အာဖရိက
  • Mongolian: Африк
  • Mongolian: အာဖရိက
  • Mongolian: ꯑꯐꯔꯤꯀꯥ
  • Moroccan Arabic: إفريقيا
  • N'Ko: ߊߝߙߌߞߌ߬
  • Narom: Afrique
  • Nauru: Aprika
  • Navajo: Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah
  • Neapolitan: Africa
  • Nepali: अफ्रिका
  • Newari: अफ्रिका
  • Northern Frisian: Afrikoo
  • Northern Luri: آفریقا
  • Northern Sami: Afrihká
  • Norwegian: Afrika
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Afrika
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Afrika
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: det afrikanske kontinentet
  • Novial: Afrika
  • Nyanja: Afilika
  • Nyanja: Africa
  • Occitan (post 1500): Africa
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܦܪܝܩܐ
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Affrica
  • Oriya: ଆଫ୍ରିକା
  • Oromo: Afrikaa
  • Ossetian: Африкæ
  • Pa'o Karen: အာဖရိက
  • Pampanga: Aprika
  • Pangasinan: Afrika
  • Panjabi: ਅਫ਼ਰੀਕਾ
  • Papiamento: Afrika
  • Pedi: Afrika
  • Pennsylvania German: Afrikaa
  • Persian: آفریقا
  • Picard: Afrike
  • Piemontese: Àfrica
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Afreka
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Afrekan kontenent
  • Polish: Afryka
  • Pontic: Αφρικήν
  • Portuguese: continente africano
  • Portuguese: África
  • Pushto: افريقا
  • Quechua: Aphirika
  • Quechua: Aprika
  • Romanian: Africa
  • Romansh: Africa
  • Rundi: Bufirika
  • Russia Buriat: Африка
  • Russian: Африка
  • Rusyn: Африка
  • Sakizaya: '非洲'u kaliyuhan nu sumamaday a niyazu'tatayna wlu amihcaan siwawatu
  • Sakizaya: Africa
  • Samoan: Aferika
  • Samogitian: Afrėka
  • Sango: Afrîka
  • Sanskrit: आफ्रिकाखण्डः
  • Santali: ᱟᱯᱷᱨᱤᱠᱟ
  • Saraiki: افریقہ
  • Sardinian: Àfrica
  • Saterfriesisch: Afrikoa
  • Scots: Africae
  • Scottish Gaelic: Afraga
  • Serbian: Африка
  • Serbian: Афрички континент
  • Serbo-Croatian: Afrika
  • Serbo-Croatian: Tafriqt
  • Shan: ဢႃႇၾရိၵ
  • Shona: Africa
  • Shona: Afurika
  • Sicilian: Àfrica
  • Silesian: Afrika
  • Sindhi: آفريڪا
  • Sinhala: අප්‍රිකාව
  • Skolt Sami: Afrikk
  • Slovak: Afrika
  • Slovenian: Afrika
  • Slovenian: afriški kontinent
  • Slovenian: črna celina
  • Somali: Afrika
  • South Azerbaijani: آفریقا
  • Southern Dagaare: Africa
  • Southern Dagaare: Nensaale sɔgele paaloŋ
  • Southern Sami: Aafrika
  • Southern Sami: Afrïjhke
  • Southern Sotho: Afrika
  • Spanish: Africa
  • Spanish: Libia antigua
  • Spanish: continente africano
  • Spanish: África
  • Sranan Tongo: Afrka
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⵜⴰⴼⵔⵉⵇⵜ
  • Sundanese: Afrika
  • Swahili: Afrika
  • Swahili: bara la Afrika
  • Swati: Í-Afríka
  • Swedish: Africa
  • Swedish: Afrika
  • Swiss German: Afrika
  • Sylheti: আফ্রিকা
  • Tachelhit: Tafriqt
  • Tagalog: Aprika
  • Tahitian: ’Afirita
  • Tahitian: ’Āfirita
  • Tajik: Африқо
  • Talysh: Afrika
  • Tamil: ஆபிரிக்கா
  • Tamil: ஆப்பிரிக்கா
  • Tamil: ஆப்ரிக்கா
  • Tatar: Afrika
  • Tatar: Африка
  • Telugu: ఆఫ్రికా
  • Telugu: ఆఫ్రికా ఖండం
  • Telugu: చీకటి ఖండం
  • Tetum: Áfrika
  • Thai: ทวีปแอฟริกา
  • Thai: แอฟริกา
  • Tibetan: ཨ་ཧྥེ་རི་ཁ།
  • Tigrinya: ኣፍሪቃ
  • Tok Pisin: Aprika
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻAfelika
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): ʻAfilika
  • Tornedalen Finnish: Aafriikka
  • Tornedalen Finnish: Africa
  • Tosk Albanian: Afrika
  • Tsonga: Afrika
  • Tswana: Aferika
  • Tulu: ಆಪ್ರಿಕೊ
  • Tulu: ಆಫ್ರಿಕಾ
  • Tumbuka: Afilika
  • Tumbuka: Afrika
  • Turkish: Afrika
  • Turkish: Afrika kıtası
  • Turkmen: Afrika
  • Tuvinian: Африка
  • Twi: Abibiman
  • Tyap: Afrika
  • Tyap: Li̱biya gbangbang
  • Tyap: Vam-a̱byin Afrika
  • Udmurt: Африка
  • Uighur: ئافرىقا
  • Ukrainian: Африка
  • Ukrainian: Африканський континент
  • Ukrainian: континент Африка
  • Upper Sorbian: Afrika
  • Urdu: افریقا
  • Urdu: افریقی براعظم
  • Uzbek: Afrika
  • Venda: Afurika
  • Venetian: Àfrica
  • Veps: Afrik
  • Vietnamese: Châu Phi
  • Vietnamese: Phi
  • Vietnamese: Phi châu
  • Vietnamese: châu Phi
  • Vlaams: Afrika
  • Vlax Romani: Afrika
  • Volapük: Frikop
  • Võro: Afriga
  • Walloon: Afrike
  • Waray (Philippines): Aprika
  • Wayuu: Apürika
  • Welsh: Affrica
  • Western Armenian: Ափրիկէ
  • Western Frisian: Afrika
  • Western Mari: Африка
  • Western Panjabi: افریقا
  • Wolof: Afrig
  • Wu Chinese: 非洲
  • Xhosa: I-Afrika
  • Yakut: Африка
  • Yiddish: אפריקע
  • Yoruba: Ilè Áfíríkà
  • Yoruba: Orílè Áfíríkà
  • Yoruba: Áfríkà
  • Yoruba: Áfíríkà
  • Yue Chinese: 非洲
  • Zeeuws: Afrika
  • Zhuang: Feihcouh
  • Zulu: IAfrika
  • Abibrem
  • Afi̱rika
  • Afrịka
  • ma Apika
  • اَفرٛیٖقا

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