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Africa is the world's third largest continent. At 11,608,000 sq. miles (30,065,000 sq. km) it covers 20.3% of the total land area on Earth. The ancient Romans used the name Africa terra (land of the Afri (pl.) or Afer (sg.)) for the northern part of the continent, corresponding to modern Tunisia. The origin of Afer may be the Arabic afer, dust; the Afridi tribe, who dwelt in Northern Africa around the area of Carthage; Greek aphrike, without cold, or Latin aprica, sunny.
Central Africa
Eastern Africa
- Burundi
- Comoros
- Djibouti
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Seychelles
- Rwanda
- Somalia -- Somaliland -- Puntland
- Tanzania
- Uganda
Northern Africa (see also North Africa)
Southern Africa
- Angola
- Botswana
- Lesotho
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Reunion
- Swaziland
- South Africa
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Western Africa
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Equatorial Guinea
- Gabon
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea-Bissau
- Liberia
- Mali
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
External link
- An Irish anarchist in Africa provides a readable and compelling, but biased, introduction to today's western Africa.