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Subject: India & World Geography
Topic: Africa
Introduction
Area: 30,221,532 sq. km (20.4% of total area Madagascar and other islands of Africa)
Population : 1.111 billion
Latitude : 37°31'N to 34°52'S Longitude : 25°11'W to 51°24'E
Size : Second largest continent after Asia and nine times the size of India.
Situation : Situated to the south of Europe and south west of Asia. It is bound by the Mediterranean Sea in the north, the Atlantic Ocean in the west and southwest, the Indian Ocean in the east and the Red Sea in the northeast. Africa belongs to all the four hemispheres and bulk of the continent lies in tropics. It is joined to Asia by the narrow isthmus of Suez and separated from Eurasia at three different points (Strait of Gibraltar, Suez Canal and Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb). The only continent which is crossed by Tropic of Cancer, Equator and Tropic of Capricorn.
Africa is called as the “Dark Continent’ because the greater part of its vast interior remained little known to the outside world until the last century.
Important Seas / Ocean Channels around Africa
Name | Location | African Countries Along the Sea |
Mediterranean Sea
| North of Africa | Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt. |
Red Sea
| North East of Africa | Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti. |
Indian Ocean | East of Africa | Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique |
