AFRICA

Africa , second largest continent, c.11,677,240 sq mi (30,244,050 sq km) including adjacent islands; 1997 est. pop. 743,000,000. Broad to the north (c.4,600 mi/7,400 km wide), Africa straddles the equator and stretches c.5,000 mi (8,050 km) from Cape Blanc (Tunisia) in the north to Cape Agulhas (South Africa) in the south.

Algeria	Gabon	Rwanda
Angola	Gambia	Sao Tome & Principe
Benin	Ghana	Senegal
Botswana	Guinea	Seychelles
Burkina Faso	Guinea-Bissau	Sierra Leone
Burundi	Ivory Coast	Somalia
Cameroon	Kenya	South Africa
Cape Verde	Lesotho	Sudan
Central African Republic	Liberia	Swaziland
Chad	Libya	Tanzania
Comoros	Madagascar	Togo
Congo	Malawi	Tunisia
Cote d'Ivoire	Mali	Uganda
Dijbouti	Mauritius	Zambia
Egypt	Morocco	Zimbabwe
Equatorial Guinea	Mozambique
Eritrea	Namibia
	Nigeria

Africa is home to the largest desert in the world: the Sahara. Grasslands cover much of the land, and rainforests are in western Africa near the equator. The Nile river is in Africa which is the longest river in the world! Thousands of species of animals live in Africa and so do many different kinds of people. There are over 1000 languages spoken in Africa. Some of the languages have been spoken for hundreds of years, and some Africans speak the European languages of the explorers and colonists from other countries. Africa is also home to some of the tallest and the shortest people in the world. For the holiday maker, Africa just about has it all from fabulous beaches, safari, scuba diving/water sports to some of the picturesque scenery in the entire world.