Africa
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Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 including adjacent islands, it covers around 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total
Ruins of Great Zimbabwe, which flourished in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries
Africa seen from the Moon on The Blue Marble photograph, 1972
Lake kariba
The savanna of Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania
North Africa
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North Africa, also known as Northern Africa, is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region. However, it is sometimes defi
The population density of Africa as of 2000
Limestone head of an early Egyptian king, The Petrie Museum. Modern scholars have considered the stone bust to depict an Early Dynastic or Old Kingdom pharaoh.
Marble portrait of a Nubia denizen c. 120–100 BC.
The pyramids of Giza are among the most recognizable symbols of ancient Egyptian civilization.