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Africa

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Africa , second largest continent (1997 est. pop. 743,000,000), c.11,677,240 sq mi (30,244,050 sq km) including adjacent islands. Broad to the north (c.4,600 mi/7,400 km wide), Africa straddles the equator and stretches c.5,000 mi (8,050 km) from Cape Blanc (Tunisia) in the north to Cape Agulhas (South Africa) in the south. It is connected with Asia by the Sinai Peninsula (from which it is separated by the Suez Canal) and is bounded on the N by the Mediterranean Sea, on the W and S by the ...

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Africa

Proconsular Roman province. It was founded after Rome defeated Carthage in 146 and was subsequently extended to include Numidia and the northern part of modern Libya. Between 30 and 180, other parts of northern Africa, including Cyrenaica and Mauretania, became part of the Roman Republic and ...

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Africa

Africa Second-largest continent (after Asia), straddling the Equator and lying largely within the tropics.

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Africa forms a plateau between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Its highest features include the Atlas mountains and Ahaggar mountains in the nw , the Ethiopian Highlands in the e , ...

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