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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the continent Africa: Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent , after Asia. It is famous for its savanna, its jungles, and the Sahara (desert).
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.
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.
This image is a derivative work of the following images: Image:Africa_map_blank.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-2.5,2.0,1.0, Cc-by-sa-2.5,2.0,1.0/en 2008-06-27T03:34:58Z Sting 1525x1440 (711453 Bytes) Completely new drawing with known projection; 2006-05-31T15:28:42Z Sting 1390x1295 (571519 Bytes) Enhanced version : African and Asian continents ...
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.At about 30.3 million km 2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area. [9]
English: Blank map of the African continent. Français : Carte vierge du continent africain . Lambert azimutal equal-area projection, WGS84 datum, standard meridian: 15°E, standard parallel: 0°
English: Political map of the African continent as in 2011-07. Français : Carte politique du continent africain tel qu'en 07/2011. Lambert azimutal equal-area projection, WGS84 datum, standard meridian: 15°E, standard parallel: 0°
Afro-Eurasia (also Afroeurasia and Eurafrasia) is a landmass comprising the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia. [1] [2] The terms are compound words of the names of its constituent parts. Afro-Eurasia has also been called the "Old World", in contrast to the "New World" referring to the Americas.