Africa
Facts about Africa
Size: 30,221,532 sq km
No. of countries: 54
Population: 1,216,130,000
- Of the seven continents of the world, Africa is the second largest
- The continents terrain was inhabitable and remained unknown for thousands of years, earning it the name of 'Dark Continent'
- The world's longest river -- the Nile -- and the world's largest desert -- the Sahara -- both are home in Africa
- The world's hottest place -- Ethiopia -- is in Africa
- The equator passes through the middle of the Dark Continent and it receives direct sunlight throughout the year
- As per research evidence, Africa is the place where Homo sapiens originated and then migrated to all the other continents of the world
- More than 50 per cent of the world's gold and 95 per cent of the world's diamonds come from the mineral rich continent of Africa
- The world also gets 66 per cent of its chocolate from the Dark Continent
- The major animals in Africa include -- cheetah, African elephant, lion, zebra, Egyptian mongoose, giraffe, addax
