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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.
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.
Phylum Region Major groups Pop. (millions) (2016) [citation needed] Number of groups Afro-Asiatic: North Africa, Horn of Africa, Sahel: Amhara, Hausa, Oromo, Somali, Tigrayan: 200
Year [7] 0 1000 1500 1600 1700 1820 1870 1913 1950 1973 1998 2018 2100 (projected) Africa: 16,500 33,000 46,000 55,000 61,000 74,208 90,466 124,697 228,342
This is one of a series of comprehensive lists of continents, countries, and first level administrative country subdivisions such as states, provinces, and territories, as well as certain political and geographic features of substantial area. [1]
Muammar al-Gaddafi in 2003. In February 2009, upon being elected chairman of the 53-nation African Union in Ethiopia, Muammar Gaddafi told the assembled African leaders: "I shall continue to insist that our sovereign countries work to achieve the United States of Africa."
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The African plate, also known as the Nubian plate, is a major tectonic plate that includes most of the continent of Africa (except for its easternmost part) and the adjacent oceanic crust to the west and south.