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Geography of Africa. 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. Its highest mountain is Kilimanjaro; its ...
Africa Action Africa Action is the oldest organization in the United States working on African affairs. It is a national organization that works for political, economic and social justice in Africa. Working class history in Africa —people's and grassroots histories. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Africa".
Blank maps derived from OMC. A web interface by Martin Weinelt – It generates maps using GMT (The Generic Mapping Tools), from public domain vector data. The resulting maps should be in the public domain. These maps show elevation and main rivers, but no modern boundaries.
One common approach categorizes Africa directionally, e.g., by cardinal direction (compass direction): North Africa lies north of the Sahara and runs along the Mediterranean coast. West Africa is the portion roughly west of 10° east longitude, excluding Northern Africa and the Maghreb. West Africa contains large portions of the Sahara Desert ...
The earliest cartographic depictions of Africa are found in early world maps. In classical antiquity, Africa (also Libya) was assumed to cover the quarter of the globe south of the Mediterranean, an arrangement that was adhered to in medieval T and O maps. The only part of Africa well known in antiquity was the coast of North Africa, described ...
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Description. Africa location map without rivers.svg. English: Blank administrative map of political Africa as in 2011-07, for geo-location purposes. Français : Carte administrative vierge de l' Afrique politique telle qu'en 07/2011, destinée à la géolocalisation. Lambert azimutal equal-area projection, WGS84 datum. Standard meridian: 15°E.
Hey Folks, I thought you might be interested that I used this map in an Activity that I created for the OLPC, Geoquiz. Thank you so much for creating it, and for placing it in the public domain. Thank you so much for creating it, and for placing it in the public domain.