List of countries and capitals with currency and language in africa
Africa
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| Area | 30,221,532 km2(11,668,599 sq mi) |
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| Population | 1,032,532,974[1] (2011, 2nd) |
| Pop. density | 30.51/km2 (about 80/sq mi) |
| Countries | 57 (list of countries) |
| Languages | Languages of Africa |
| Time zones | UTC-1 to UTC+4 |
Main articles: Africa and List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa
Further information: Geography of Africa
For a table of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa with geographical data such as area, population, and population density, see here.
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers six percent of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4 percent of the total land area.[2] With 1.0 billion people (as of 2009, see table), it accounts for about 15% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by theMediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagoes. It has 54 fully recognized sovereign states("countries"), 10 territories and two de facto states with limited recognition.[3]
Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the origin ofhumans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago – including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilisand H. ergaster – with the earliest Homo sapiens (modern human) found inEthiopia being dated to circa 200,000 years ago.[4] Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.[5] The African expectedeconomic growth rate is at about 5.0% for 2010 and 5.5% in 2011.[6]
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