Africa is the 2nd better abstemious on Earth, afterward Asia in size. Africa measures 11,730,000 aboveboard afar (30,370,000 aboveboard kilometers). It comprises 20.4% of the acreage breadth on Earth and 6% of the Earth's surface.
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Africa consists of 53 countries, some of which are amid the atomic in the world. The Sudan is the better country in Africa, and Seychelles is the smallest.
Africa is disconnected into several regions which are apparent by arresting altitude variations. The abstemious appearance highlands on both the East and West coasts and plains in the middle. Africa has two chastening — the Sahara and the Kalahari. The Sahara is the better arid on Earth; it covers 3,500,000 sq. mi. (9,065,000 sq. km.) and is consistently growing. The arid ranges in acclivity from 100 ft. beneath sea level, to added than 11,000 ft. (3,350 m.). In contrast, the Kalahari Arid is about 100,000 sq. mi. (259,000 sq. km.) and covers best of Botswana, allotment of South Africa, and western Namibia.
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On the bend of the Sahara is the Sahel, an breadth of acreage that sits amid arid and close areas and receives as little as 6 to 8 inches of precipitation per year. It is an breadth of alteration on which the accretion Sahara Arid is consistently encroaching.
Africa is additionally home to a rainforest, lying aural the Congo River Basin. This abundant basin covers the Democratic Republic of the Congo and abundant of the Congo; extensive additionally into Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Zambia. It occupies about 1,400,000 sq. mi. (3,600,000 sq. km.) and contains about 20% of the world's rain forest.
Africa appearance several abundance ranges. There are the Atlas Mountains forth the Mediterranean bank in the northwest, and a cardinal of ample mountains band the Great Rift Basin in the east. This basin is a low lying breadth that extends from the Red Sea to Mozambique. Forth the bend of the Great Rift Basin sits Mount Kilimanjaro which has two peaks (Kibo and Mawenzi). Kibo is the accomplished point on the abstemious and stands at 19,321 anxiety (5889 meters).
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Africa is accepted for its different acreage formations as able-bodied as its age-old counterfeit structures. African biking destinations accommodate Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe and Zambia border, the Nile River, which is the longest river in the world, and the age-old Sphinx and pyramids. The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt was the tallest counterfeit anatomy until the Eiffel Tower was complete in 1889.
