Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532sq.km including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of The earthEa total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area.with more than 900 million people (as of 2005) in 61 territories, it account for about 14 % of the world's human population.
Africa is sorrunded by the medittMediter sea to the north, the Suez canal and the red sea ti the north east the Indian ocean to the south east, and the Atlantic ocean to the west.
There are 46 countries including madagaMada,and 53 including all the islands groups.
It's nothmost point in cape Blanc ( in Tunisia) and the souther most point is cape Agulhas (in South Africa).
Africa is reffered as Dark continent, not because of the dark skin of the locals but because little known of it's history prior to colonization.
It's highest point is mount kilimanjarK (5895m) in Tanzania and the lowest point is lake assal (153m below sea level) in Djibouti.
Important desert:-are the Sahara,the Kalahari and the namib desert,sahara is the largest desert of the world.
Important rivers:---e the Nile,the Zaire,the niger and the zambezi. The neli is the longest river in the world.
