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Africa
The continent Africa is the second-largest continent in the world in both area and population.
Area:
About 30, 244, 000 km² (11, 700 000 mi²) including its adjacent islands.
It covers about 20 percent of Earth’s total land area.
Population:
900,000,000, about 20 percent of the world’s population.
Highest Point:
Mount Kilimanjaro – Uhuru Peak on the volcano Kibo, 5,895 m (19,340 ft) in Tanzania.
Largest Lake:
Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza; 68,870 sq km.
Longest River:
Nile. 6,695 km.
Languages of Africa:
About thousand languages classified in four major language families:
Afro-Asiatic (e.g. Berber lang), Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo (Bantu), and Khoi-San.
Countries in Africa
Eastern Africa
Burundi—————Bujumbura
Comoros————–Moroni
Djibouti—————Djibouti
Eritrea—————-Asmara
Ethiopia—————Addis Ababa
Kenya—————–Nairobi
Madagascar———–Antananarivo
Malawi—————-Lilongwe
Mauritius————–Port Louis
Mozambique———–Maputo
Réunion—————Saint-Denis
Rwanda—————Kigali
Seychelles————Victoria
Somalia—————Mogadishu
Tanzania————–Dar es Salaam
Uganda—————Kampala
Zambia—————-Lusaka
Zimbabwe————-Harare
Central Africa (Middle Africa)
Angola—————-Luanda
Cameroon————-Yaoundé
Central African Republic–Bangui
Chad——————N’Djamena
Congo, Rep.(Brazzaville)–Brazzaville
Congo, Dem. Rep.(Kinshasa)–Kinshasa
Equatorial Guinea——-Malabo
Gabon——————Libreville
São Tomé and Príncipe—São Tomé
Northern Africa
Algeria——————Algiers
Egypt——————-Cairo
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya—Tripoli
Morocco—————–Rabat
Sudan——————-Khartoum
Tunisia——————Tunis
Western Sahara
Southern Africa
Botswana—————-Gaborone
Lesotho——————Maseru
Namibia——————Windhoek
South Africa————–Pretoria
Swaziland—————-Mbabane
Western Africa
Benin———————Porto-Novo
Burkina Faso————–Ouagadougou
Cape Verde—————Praia
Côte d’Ivoire————–Yamoussoukro
Gambia,——————-The Banjul
Ghana———————Accra
Guinea———————Conakry
Guinea-Bissau————–Bissau
Liberia———————Monrovia
Mali———————–Bamako
Mauritania—————–Nouakchott
Niger——————-
—Niamey
Nigeria——————–Abuja
Saint Helena—————Jamestown
Senegal——————-Dakar
Sierra Leone—————Freetown
Togo———————-Lomé