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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.
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.
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
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.
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
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Most of the Afrotropical realm, except for Africa's southern tip, has a tropical climate. A broad belt of deserts, including the Atlantic and Sahara deserts of northern Africa and the Arabian Desert of the Arabian Peninsula, separates the Afrotropic from the Palearctic realm, which includes northern Africa and temperate Eurasia.
Afrikaners; Total population; c. 2.8–3.5 million [1] Regions with significant populations South Africa 2,710,461 (2011) [2] Namibia 92,400 (2003) [3] Zambia ≈ ...