Africa
a continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. About 11,700,000 square miles (30,303,000 square kilometers).
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There is growing evidence of how bad—and expensive—air pollution is in Lagos, Africa’s largest mega-city.
Residents in Lagos are paying for the city’s worsening air pollution with their lives | Yomi Kazeem | September 25, 2020 | QuartzToday, shawarma is eaten in many parts of the Middle East, northern Africa, and the Mediterranean.
Turn a cheap chicken dinner into a Turkish street-food getaway | SAVEUR Editors | September 25, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThis includes the continents of Africa, South America and much of Asia.
A dirty and growing problem: Too few toilets | Stephanie Parker | September 24, 2020 | Science News For StudentsGellert has overseen Patagonia’s business across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa since 2014.
In January 1984, Tropical Storm Domoina cut a swath of destruction across the southern end of Africa.
According to Pew, 14 of the 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa have blasphemy laws.
The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.
With Ebola still raging in West Africa, the race to find a vaccine is heating up.
While the world fixated on Ukraine and Syria, a near-genocide ripped through central Africa, to little international fanfare.
Egypt has a comparatively low number of HIV cases compared to the rest of Africa, with just 11,000 infected people nationwide.
Sisi Is Persecuting, Prosecuting, and Publicly Shaming Egypt’s Gays | Bel Trew | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe winter of 1897-98 was spent by Mr. Kipling and his family, accompanied by his father, in South Africa.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II | Rudyard KiplingIn Africa the ova, and even adults, of Distoma hmatobium are common, accompanying "Egyptian hematuria."
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddGallinas, the noted slave factory on the west of Africa, purchased by the Liberian republic.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellWe give an engraving of a kind of pipe used by the natives of interior Africa.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.Later on he went to South Africa, where in the diamond mines he met with great success and made a large fortune.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow
British Dictionary definitions for Africa
/ (ˈæfrɪkə) /
the second largest of the continents, on the Mediterranean in the north, the Atlantic in the west, and the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and Indian Ocean in the east. The Sahara desert divides the continent unequally into North Africa (an early centre of civilization, in close contact with Europe and W Asia, now inhabited chiefly by Arabs) and Africa south of the Sahara (relatively isolated from the rest of the world until the 19th century and inhabited chiefly by Negroid peoples). It was colonized mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries by Europeans and now comprises independent nations. The largest lake is Lake Victoria and the chief rivers are the Nile, Niger, Congo, and Zambezi. Pop: 887 964 000 (2005 est). Area: about 30 300 000 sq km (11 700 000 sq miles)
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Cultural definitions for Africa
The second-largest continent, after Asia; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by the Indian Ocean.
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