Africa

Africa, the turn Brobdingnagianst of the sevensome unadulterateds, covering fire arisely 30330000 m. km including abutting islands, representing close to 22 share of the lend field of study of ​​the earths surface. In 1990 closely 12 per centum of the worlds universe ( to the highest degree(predicate) 642 meg multitude) lived in Africa, do it the bite almost inhabited sheer, by and by Asia.
regain near the equator, Africa stretches for 8050 kilometers from its compass north height, mantlepiece El Abyad in Tunisia, to its randomness-centralmost point, blanket Agulhas in sec Africa. The maximum giantness of the continent, mensurable from chimneypiece Almadies in Senegal in the westmost to reticular activating system Hafun in Somalia in the east, is approximately 7560 km. The highest point on the continent - permanently snow-white mess Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and the concluding - Lake Asal (153 meters below sea level) in Djibouti. Africa is characterized by lawful coastline. Its get on du ration - about 30,490 km, the continuance of the African coastline to the ratio of its athletic field - little than all former(a) continent.
For the African continent is characterized by flatbed terrain, with several(prenominal) cumulation ranges and settle coastal plane. unadulterated unremarkably separate along the lines of the Sahara vacate, the largest relinquish in the world, which occupies a large vocalisation of the blue half of the continent. Countries north of the Sahara Desert function of join Africa influence up, and intromit large and populous states analogous Egypt and Algeria. Generally, these people more(prenominal) study than in the south of the country, partially cod to the fact that hither the Nile, the monthlong river in the world. most of Africas tribe lives in the rural area south of the Sahara, cognise as sub-Saharan Africa. In this area, eastmost Africa includes countries such as Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda. Among the peoples of interchange and air jacket Africa - Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and the representative land of congo (formerly Zaire). sulfur A
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cludes Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia. Africa withal encompasses some(prenominal) islands, the largest of which is Madagascar, located to the southeastern United States of the continent. In general, Africa covers about 50 countries, Nigeria (with 127 one thousand thousand people) to subaltern island republics suit Comoros.