Africa

Africa

continent, geographic location, geographic region

Part of	Ostfeste, Earth, Afro-Eurasia, Afro-Asia
Located in/on physical feature	Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere
Coordinate location	21°5′38″N 7°11′17″E
Highest point	Mount Kibo
Lowest point	Afar Triangle
Owner of	International Council of African Museums
Dey share bother plus	Eurasia, Asia
Studied in	African studies, Africana studies
Geography of topic	geography of Africa
History of topic	history of Africa
Economy of topic	economy of Africa
Demographics of topic	demographics of Africa
NCI Thesaurus ID	C26272
Category for maps or plans	Category:Maps of Africa

Africa be de world ein second-largest den second-most populous continent afta Asia. For about 30.3 million km² (11.7 million square miles) wey dey include adjacent islands, edey cover 20% of Earth ein land area den 6% of ein total surface area.^[1] Plus 1.4 billion people^[2][3] as of 2021, edey account for about 18% of de world ein human population. Africa ein population be de youngest amongst all de continents;^[4][5] na de median age insyd 2012 be 19.7, wen na de worldwide median age be 30.4.^[6] Despite wide range of natural resources, Africa be de least wealthy continent per capita den second-least wealthy by total wealth, ahead of Oceania. Scholars attribute dis to different factors wey dey include geography, climate, tribalism,^[7] colonialism, de Cold War,^[8][9] neocolonialism, lack of democracy, den corruption.^[7] Despite dis low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion den de large den young population dey make Africa important economic market insyd de broader global context.

De continent be surrounded by de Mediterranean Sea go de north, de Isthmus of Suez den de Red Sea go de northeast, de Indian Ocean go de southeast den de Atlantic Ocean go de west. De continent dey include Madagascar den various archipelagos. Edey contain 54 fully sovereign states dem recognise, eight cities den islands wey be part of non-African states, den two de facto independent states plus limited anaa no recognition. Dis count no dey include Malta den Sicily, wey be geologically part of de African continent. Algeria be Africa ein largest country by area, den Nigeria be ein largest by population. African nations dey cooperate thru de establishment of de African Union, wey be headquartered insyd Addis Ababa.

Africa dey straddle de equator den de prime meridian. Ebe de continent per wey dey stretch from de northern temperate go de southern temperate zones.^[10] De majority of de continent den ein countries dey insyd de Northern Hemisphere, plus substantial portion den number of countries insyd de Southern Hemisphere. Most of de continent dey lie insyd de tropics, except for large part of Western Sahara, Algeria, Libya den Egypt, de northern tip of Mauritania, den de entire territories of Morocco, Ceuta, Melilla, den Tunisia wey in turn dey locate above de tropic of Cancer, insyd de northern temperate zone. Insyd de oda extreme of de continent, southern Namibia, southern Botswana, great parts of South Africa, de entire territories of Lesotho den Eswatini den de southern tips of Mozambique den Madagascar dey locate below de tropic of Capricorn, insyd de southern temperate zone.

1. ↑ Sayre, April Pulley (1999), Africa, Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN. 0-7613-1367-2.
2. ↑ "World Population Prospects 2022". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
3. ↑ "World Population Prospects 2022: Demographic indicators by region, subregion and country, annually for 1950-2100" (XSLX) ("Total Population, as of 1 July (thousands)"). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
4. ↑ Swanson, Ana (17 August 2015). "5 ways the world will look dramatically different in 2100". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
5. ↑ Harry, Njideka U. (11 September 2013). "African Youth, Innovation and the Changing Society". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 20 September 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
6. ↑ Janneh, Abdoulie (April 2012). "item, 4 of the provisional agenda – General debate on national experience in population matters: adolescents and youth" (PDF). United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Collier, Paul; Gunning, Jan Willem (1 August 1999). "Why Has Africa Grown Slowly?". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 13 (3): 3–22. doi:10.1257/jep.13.3.3.
8. ↑ Aemazung, Joy Asongazoh (1 September 2010). "Post-colonial colonialism: an analysis of international factors and actors marring African socio-economic and political development" (PDF). Journal of Pan African Studies. 3 (10): 62–85. S2CID 140806396. Gale A306596751. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 November 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
9. ↑ Bayeh, Endalcachew (February 2015). "The political and economic legacy of colonialism in the post-independence African states". International Journal in Commerce, IT & Social Sciences. 2 (2): 89–93. doi:10.4000/poldev.78. S2CID 198939744. Archived from the original on 17 November 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
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