Africa
Parent category: world
Related: African American - Afrobeat - black - black music - black pride - black power - Black science fiction - Egypt - Yoruba
By medium: African visual arts - African music
Map of the world showing the area of the Africa.
Intro
Africa is the world's second-largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. At c. 30,244,050 km2 (11,677,240 mi2) including the islands, it covers 20.3% of the total land area on Earth, and with over 800 million human inhabitants it accounts for around one seventh of Earth's human population. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa [Oct 2004]