Africa

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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. With 1.1 billion people as of 2013, it accounts for about 15% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean 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 archipelagos. It has 54 fully recognized sovereign states ("countries"), nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition.

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Interesting Locations in Africa Name of region and territory, with flag Area (km²) Population Year Density (per km²) Capital Northern Africa  Algeria 2,381,740 34,178,188 2009 14 Algiers  Canary Islands (Spain) 7,492 2,118,519 2010 226 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife  Ceuta (Spain) 20 71,505 2001 3,575 —  Egypt 1,001,450 82,868,000 2012 83 Cairo  Libya 1,759,540 6,310,434 2009 4 Tripoli  Madeira (Portugal) 797 245,000 2001 307 Funchal  Melilla (Spain) 12 66,411 2001 5,534 —  Morocco 446,550 34,859,364 2009 78 Rabat  Sudan 1,861,484 30,894,000 2008 17 Khartoum  Tunisia 163,610 10,486,339 2009 64 Tunis   Western Sahara 266,000 405,210 2009 2 El Aaiún Horn of Africa or Northeast Africa  Djibouti 23,000 623,891 2012 22 Djibouti  Eritrea 121,320 5,647,168 2009 47 Asmara  Ethiopia 1,127,127 84,320,987 2012 75 Addis Ababa  Somalia 637,657 9,832,017 2009 15 Mogadishu Eastern Africa  Burundi 27,830 8,988,091 2009 323 Bujumbura  British Indian Ocean Territory - Chagos Archipelago (United Kingdom) 56.13 3,000 2012 53.4 Diego Garcia  Comoros 2,170 752,438 2009 347 Moroni  Kenya 582,650 39,002,772 2009 66 Nairobi  Madagascar 587,040 20,653,556 2009 35 Antananarivo  Malawi 118,480 14,268,711 2009 120 Lilongwe  Mauritius 2,040 1,284,264 2009 630 Port Louis  Mayotte (France) 374 223,765 2009 490 Mamoudzou  Mozambique 801,590 21,669,278 2009 27 Maputo  Réunion (France) 2,512 743,981 2002 296 Saint-Denis  Rwanda 26,338 10,473,282 2009 398 Kigali  Seychelles 455 87,476 2009 192 Victoria  South Sudan 619,745 8,260,490 2008 13 Juba  Tanzania 945,087 44,929,002 2009 43 Dodoma  Uganda 236,040 32,369,558 2009 137 Kampala  Zambia 752,614 11,862,740 2009 16 Lusaka  Zimbabwe 390,580 11,392,629 2009 29 Harare Central Africa  Angola 1,246,700 12,799,293 2009 10 Luanda  Cameroon 475,440 18,879,301 2009 40 Yaoundé  Central African Republic 622,984 4,511,488 2009 7 Bangui  Chad 1,284,000 10,329,208 2009 8 N'Djamena  Republic of the Congo 342,000 4,012,809 2009 12 Brazzaville  Democratic Republic of the Congo 2,345,410 69,575,000 2012 30 Kinshasa  Equatorial Guinea 28,051 633,441 2009 23 Malabo  Gabon 267,667 1,514,993 2009 6 Libreville  São Tomé and Príncipe 1,001 212,679 2009 212 São Tomé Southern Africa  Botswana 600,370 1,990,876 2009 3 Gaborone  Lesotho 30,355 2,130,819 2009 70 Maseru  Namibia 825,418 2,108,665 2009 3 Windhoek  South Africa 1,219,912 51,770,560 2011 42 Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Pretoria  Swaziland 17,363 1,123,913 2009 65 Mbabane Western Africa  Benin 112,620 8,791,832 2009 78 Porto-Novo  Burkina Faso 274,200 15,746,232 2009 57 Ouagadougou  Cape Verde 4,033 429,474 2009 107 Praia  Côte d'Ivoire 322,460 20,617,068 2009 64 Abidjan, Yamoussoukro  Gambia 11,300 1,782,893 2009 158 Banjul  Ghana 239,460 23,832,495 2009 100 Accra  Guinea 245,857 10,057,975 2009 41 Conakry  Guinea-Bissau 36,120 1,533,964 2009 43 Bissau  Liberia 111,370 3,441,790 2009 31 Monrovia  Mali 1,240,000 12,666,987 2009 10 Bamako  Mauritania 1,030,700 3,129,486 2009 3 Nouakchott  Niger 1,267,000 15,306,252 2009 12 Niamey  Nigeria 923,768 166,629,000 2012 180 Abuja  Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom) 420 7,728 2012 13 Jamestown  Senegal 196,190 13,711,597 2009 70 Dakar  Sierra Leone 71,740 6,440,053 2009 90 Freetown  Togo 56,785 6,019,877 2009 106 Lomé   Africa Total 30,368,609 1,001,320,281 2009 33

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