North Africa

American  

[nawrth af-ri-kuh] / ˈnɔrθ ˈæf rɪ kə /

noun

1. the northern part of Africa, especially the region north of the tropical rainforest and comprised of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and that part of Egypt west of the Gulf of Suez.

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North Africa British  

noun

1. the part of Africa between the Mediterranean and the Sahara: consists chiefly of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and N Egypt

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Other Word Forms

• North African
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of North Africa

First recorded in 1840–45

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Example Sentences

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North Africa

The other is Shas, which was formed later and represents the Sephardi and Mizrahi – Jews from North Africa and the Middle East.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

He would be the first prime minister who is Sephardic, Jews who trace their recent origins to the Middle East and North Africa.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

A young man goes to the movies and watches a newsreel about Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, when the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Playing a game about a week during World War Two in North Africa might not be top of your list - but James Purcell, 29, and Andy Taeger, 30, decided to do just that.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Finally, speakers of ancestral Afroasiatic languages may have been involved in domesticating the crops native to Ethiopia, and they certainly introduced Fertile Crescent crops to North Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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