25 Interesting Facts About Africa That Most People Don’t Know ???
1.) Africa is the second-largest continent in the world, the world's hottest continent, and the world's second driest continent.
2.) The world's largest reptile, the Nile crocodile makes it home in Africa.
3.) The ancient Egyptian city of Kahun was the first planned city in the world.
4.) The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert in the world, and the third largest in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.
5.) The world’s largest frog, the Goliath frog, is found in Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon.
6.) Tigers only live in Asia, not in Africa.
7.) The deadliest animal in all of Africa is the hippo.
8.) Between the 7th and 20th centuries, Arab slave trade captured and exported 18 million slaves from Africa.
9.) Africa is home to the world’s largest living land animal, the African elephant, which can weigh between 6 and 7 tons.
10.) In Africa, women and children walk an average of 3.7 miles a day just to get the water they need to survive.
11.) Africa has 54 sovereign countries, the most of any continent.
12.) Egypt is the most popular tourist destination in Africa, attracting around 10 million visitors per year.
13.) Africa has over 25% of the world’s bird species.
14.) The malaria cases in the world, 90% occur in Africa.
15.) In Africa, over 25 million people have HIV and over 17 million have died of the disease already.
16.) 40% of Africans who are illiterate, 2/3 are women.
17.) Africa is the second most populous continent in the world, with over 1.1 billion people, or about 16% of the world’s population.
18.) Africa is the world’s poorest and most underdeveloped continent.
19.) Deforestation rates in Africa are twice the average for the rest of the world.
20.) Nearly half of all the gold ever mined in history has come from Witwatersrand, South Africa.
21.) Women in sub-Saharan Africa are over 230 times more likely to die during childbirth or pregnancy than women in North America.
22.) Approximately one in three people living in sub-Saharan Africa are undernourished.
23.) The oldest known mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, which was discovered in the Lebombo Mountains of Swaziland. It dates to approximately 35,000 B.C.
24.) In developing countries in Africa, women typically work 12 to 13 hours per week more than men.
25.) Africa is the second largest of the earth’s seven continents, it has the shortest coastline, due to very few jutting edges and bays in its landscape.