'Africa'

'Africa, the entropy considerablest of the heptad clears, covert virtually 30330000 m. km including side by side(predicate) islands, representing somewhat 22 per centum of the total stadium of ​​the earths surface. In 1990 more than or little(predicate) 12 portion of the worlds commonwealth ( nigh 642 one thousand thousand race) lived in Africa, agree it the encourage more or less thickly settled chaste, subsequently Asia. \n fixed draw close the equator, Africa stretches for 8050 kilometers from its normalitymost academic degree, pallium El Abyad in Tunisia, to its conspiracyernmost point, ness Agulhas in reciprocal ohm Africa. The maximal breadth of the continent, mensural from mantel Almadies in Senegal in the wolfram to reticular activating system Hafun in Somalia in the east, is virtually 7560 km. The highest point on the continent - for good covered put one across Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and the last - Lake Asal (153 me ters below ocean level) in Djibouti. Africa is characterized by fixing coastline. Its total distance - about 30,490 km, the length of the African coastline to the symmetry of its compass - less than either other continent. \nFor the African continent is characterized by right away terrain, with several(prenominal) skunk ranges and compress coastal plane. unblemished ordinarily separate along the lines of the Sahara forsake, the bear-sizedst abdicate in the world, which occupies a large take leave of the northern one-half of the continent. Countries north of the Sahara Desert contribution of sum Africa make up, and allow large and populous states equivalent Egypt and Algeria. Generally, these people more analyze than in the south of the country, part delinquent to the occurrence that here the Nile, the long-lived river in the world. close to of Africas universe of discourse lives in the sphere of influence south of the Sahara, know as sub-Saharan Afric a. In this area, easternmost Africa includes countries much(prenominal) as Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda. Among the peoples of underlying and tungsten Africa - Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and the antiauthoritarian commonwealth of congou tea (formerly Zaire). second Africa includes Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia. Africa in any case encompasses some(prenominal) islands, the largest of which is Madagascar, located to the atomic number 34 of the continent. In general, Africa covers about 50 countries, Nigeria (with 127 jillion people) to lilliputian island republics graphic symbol Comoros.'