Steemgeography | some interesting things about Africa

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Hello steemians am here to give you some tips about About Africa as a continent.

About Africa

African is the second most populous continent while Asia is the first .African has around 1.3billuon people as of 2018 which has now increase to 1,365,470,616 the current estimate . African has about over 1250-3000 native languages and has a time zone of UTC-1 to UTC+4. It largest urban areas are as follow

Cairo - capital of Egypt
Lagos - in Nigeria
Johannesburg-capital of South Africa
Luanda
Kinshasa
Cape Town
Casablanca etc .

Africa as a continent is rounded by seas known as Mediterranean and the Red Sea this is to the northern side , the Indian Ocean to the Southeast , then the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

Africa has eight territories the largest country in Africa by area is Algeria while Nigeria is the largest by population.

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Subregion in African and their population

Their are seven sub regions in Africa and high are

• the Easter African
• the Western Africa
• the Northern Africa
• the Middle Africa
• the Southern Africa

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The eastern African has a population of about 445,4045,606.

The Western Africa has about 401,861,254.

The Northern Africa has about 246,232,518

The Middle Africa is about 179,595,134 in population . The last is the Southern Africa which has about 67,503,635.

Let look at African territories and region, each of these sub regions in Africa has countries under them and we will some countries under each subregion.

Countries under the North African are Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, etc.

Under East African we can find countries like Ethiopia, Comoros, Brundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, etc.

The Central Africa countries like the Angola, Cameroon, republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea etc are situated here.

South Africa region you find countries like the South African as the name implies, Namibia,Botswana etc

The west African region has one of the best country in Africa which is Nigeria, other countries that are situated in west are Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali,Senegal, Sierialeone , Togo etc..

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climate

Let talk about Africa climate. African climate scope from tropical to subarctic. The Northern is essentially desert them the central ,southern areas contain savanna, a jungle region. The hottest continent on earth is Africa the entire land surface in Africa is made up of about 60% dry land and desert also.

Water

Africa has about 9% of fresh water in the world Africa has lots of rivers some big rivers found in Africa are river nile, Congo, niger etc..

^{River Nile}

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^{How river Congo looks like}

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Africa colonization

Africa was colonized by some countries in Europe who has powers they are seven which are the Britain ,Italy, Germany, Belgium, Spain, France and Portugal.

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interesting facts about Africa

Their are lot of fact about Africa as a continent which is interesting to known about them here are few of them

• Ethiopia and Liberia is the only African country that was not colonized by foreign powers

• Arabic is the highest spoken language in Africa over 170 million speaks it, English is the second with over 130 , French is over 115, Berber 50, Swahili with about 100, Hausa 50, Portuguese 20, Spanish 10.

• in the world Nigeria is the fourth oil exporter and the biggest oil producer in africa. They produce about 2.2million barrels of oil a day.

• when it come to reserve Africa has most the reserved precious metal over 40% of gold reserves, 60% of cobalt are reserved, and 90% of platinum is reserved too.

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African is blessed by God thanks for reading through I believe you got some little and hidden things about africa as a continent Thank you!!