Africa Statistics

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Formed:
Population: 1,022,234,00 people
Area: 30,221,532 sq/ kilometres
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Currency: (One United States Dollar equals 1.02 CAD)

Africa is the world’s second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth’s total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With 1.0 billion people in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14.72% 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 has 54 sovereign states, including Madagascar and various island groups.

Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely regarded within the scientific community to be the origin of humans 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. habilis and H. ergaster – with the earliest Homo sapiens (modern human) found in Ethiopia being dated to circa 200,000 years ago.

Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.

Countries Visited

I’ve separated the various states that I traveled through on their own pages. Click a flag to be taken to its respective page.

South Africa

Namibia

Botswana

2012-04-28 – Say What?
2012-04-05 – Race against time
2012-02-13 – What’s happening?
2012-01-13 – Mixed Up Messages
2012-01-06 – Zambia Statistics
2012-01-03 – Overpowered by Emotions
2011-12-31 – And so it draws to a close
2011-12-24 – Challenges
2011-12-20 – Green Pastures
2011-12-20 – Botswana Statistics
2011-12-16 – Preventative Maintenance
2011-12-11 – Recharged and Rolling Again
2011-11-15 – How quickly things change
2011-11-14 – Namibia Statistics
2011-11-12 – Muffled Divide
2011-11-05 – Baboons and Barbarians
2011-10-31 – Realigning 1st World Priorities into 3rd World
2011-10-27 – Continent Switch!
2011-10-17 – South Africa Statistics
2011-10-17 – Africa Statistics

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