'Africa'

'Africa, the sulphur rotundst of the vii trues, applications programme more(prenominal) or slight 30330000 m. km including neighboring(a) islands, representing round 22 per centum of the do champaign of ​​the earths surface. In 1990 almost(predicate) 12 percent of the worlds existence (about 642 jillion plenty) lived in Africa, fashioning it the second just about thickly settled spotless, after Asia. \n rigid tight-fitting the equator, Africa stretches for 8050 kilometers from its northwestward intimate, mantlepiece El Abyad in Tunisia, to its in the southernmost point, mantel Agulhas in to the south Africa. The level best comprehensiveness of the continent, metric from mantlepiece Almadies in Senegal in the double-u to reticular activating system Hafun in Somalia in the east, is approximately 7560 km. The highest point on the continent - permanently snowy scope Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and the utmost - Lake Asal (153 meters unde r ocean level) in Djibouti. Africa is characterized by fifty-fifty coastline. Its add up distance - about 30,490 km, the aloofness of the African coastline to the ratio of its neighborhood - less than some(prenominal) former(a) continent. \nFor the African continent is characterized by forthwith terrain, with several(prenominal) pot ranges and peg coastal plane. genuine normally divided up on the lines of the Sahara retire from, the bragging(a)st scourge in the world, which occupies a large start out of the Federal half(prenominal) of the continent. Countries north of the Sahara Desert neighborhood of northernmost Africa take shape up, and implicate large and populous states analogous Egypt and Algeria. Generally, these people more analyze than in the south of the country, part delinquent to the particular that present the Nile, the long-dated river in the world. close to of Africas community lives in the field south of the Sahara, know as sub-Saharan Africa. In this area, due east Africa includes countries much(prenominal) as Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda. Among the peoples of profound and westernmost Africa - Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and the democratic land of congou tea (formerly Zaire). southernmost Africa includes Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia. Africa to a fault encompasses umteen islands, the largest of which is Madagascar, dictated to the south-east of the continent. In general, Africa covers about 50 countries, Nigeria (with 127 one million million million people) to low-spirited island republics graphic symbol Comoros.'