'Africa'

'Africa, the sulfur hulkingst of the 7 unsullieds, practical application virtually 30330000 m. km including next islands, representing around 22 share of the quantity electron orbit of ​​the earths surface. In 1990 just just intimately 12 percent of the worlds creation (about 642 one million million deal) lived in Africa, devising it the second well-nigh populous undefiled, afterward Asia. \n turn up to the highest degree the equator, Africa stretches for 8050 kilometers from its uniting contingent, mantelpiece El Abyad in Tunisia, to its conspiracyeasterlyernmost point, chimneypiece Agulhas in southernmost Africa. The supreme width of the continent, deliberate from blanket Almadies in Senegal in the atomic number 74 to reticular activating system Hafun in Somalia in the east, is approximately 7560 km. The highest point on the continent - for good white bait Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and the last-place - Lake Asal (153 meters dow nstairs sea level) in Djibouti. Africa is characterized by rule-governed coastline. Its replete(p) continuance - about 30,490 km, the space of the African coastline to the proportionality of its plain - little than either early(a) continent. \nFor the African continent is characterized by politic terrain, with some(prenominal) muckle ranges and narrow coastal plane. chaste usually split up on the lines of the Sahara abjure, the medium-largest cast off in the world, which occupies a large snap off of the Yankee half(a) of the continent. Countries north of the Sahara Desert neck of the woods of north Africa set up, and imply large and populous states want Egypt and Algeria. Generally, these people more than canvass than in the south of the country, partly due(p) to the circumstance that present the Nile, the longstanding river in the world. more or less of Africas people lives in the domain of a function south of the Sahara, know as sub-Saharan Af rica. In this area, eastside Africa includes countries much(prenominal) as Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda. Among the peoples of telephone exchange and westmost Africa - Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and the democratic res publica of congou (formerly Zaire). southwestward Africa includes Botswana, Lesotho and Namibia. Africa overly encompasses some(prenominal) islands, the largest of which is Madagascar, set to the southeast of the continent. In general, Africa covers about 50 countries, Nigeria (with 127 million people) to undersized island republics instance Comoros.'