About Africa: It is the second-largest continent, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean. The Equator divides it almost exactly in half. Africa’s physical geography, environment, resources, and human geography can all be examined separately.
Facts about Africa
Africa is larger than China, USA, India, Mexico and a big part of Europe combined.
The shortest distance between Europe and Africa is 14.3 km (8.9 mi) by sea, and plans are underway to build the longest bridge ever.
The largest and tallest land animals in the world, the African elephant and giraffe, are found in Africa.
The same set of tools that were discovered in a cave 44,000 years ago are still in use today by the San people of Southern Africa.
41% of children in Africa aged 5 to 14 are involved in child labour.
To obtain water, people in Asia and Africa must walk an average of 3.7 miles (6 KM).
12.5 million Africans were abducted and sold into slavery in the Americas between 1525 and 1866.
Facebook has 100 million active users in Africa.
96 elephants are killed every day in Africa.
The deadliest animal in Africa is the hippopotamus.
The mothers of the Dogon people in West Africa encouraged their married women to engage in extramarital affairs in public.
South Africa is called the “Rainbow Nation” because it has 11 official languages.
There’s a beer brewed from bananas in Africa.
South Africans can legally attach flamethrowers to cars to repel carjackers.
The only woman to have served as first lady of both Mozambique and South Africa is Graça Machel.
Lightning killed all 11 players on an African football team in 1998, but spared the other team’s players.
One location—the Witwatersrand in South Africa—has produced almost half of all gold ever extracted.
Africa does not have wild tigers, despite what the general public believes. Only in the Asian region.
Between 1530 and 1780, more than a million Europeans were taken captive and sold into slavery in North Africa.
There are more people speaking French in Africa than in France.
Soccer player Didier Drogba is recognized for having helped to mediate the end of a five-year civil war in his native Ivory Coast.
The majority of the fastest runners in the world are members of the “Kalenjins,” a single tribe from Kenya, Africa.
Africa‘s Tanzania has one of the highest rates of albinism worldwide. Witch doctors frequently hunt albinos to use in their concoctions.
The only nation on Earth that is entirely above 1000 metres in elevation is Lesotho, located in Africa.
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin‘s official title was “His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”
The country of Liberia, in Africa, was established by U.S. citizens as a colony for former African-American slaves and their free black descendants.
The country of Ghana, in Africa, banned the sale of secondhand underwear, In 2010.
1 in 4 adults in Swaziland, Africa, are infected with HIV.
President Banana was the first African president of Zimbabwe.
The vaccination rate in sixteen African nations is higher than that of the United States.
African women from the Mursi tribe adorn lips with plates that can measure up to 5 inches (12 cm) in diameter.
38% of Christianity is projected to live in sub-Saharan Africa in 2050.
The hand print of Nelson Mandela resembles the African continent.
Spain has two major exclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, in mainland Africa.
Hearing “voices” in your head seems to be influenced by your culture. The voices schizophrenia sufferers hear in the United States are harsh and menacing, but those they hear in Africa and India are typically more benign and lighthearted.
The flag of the African nation of Mozambique features an AK-47 assault rifle.
Almost a third of the world’s languages are spoken only in Africa.
Giraffe are already extinct in at least seven countries in Africa.
A volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa, erupted in 1986, releasing a cloud of carbon dioxide gas that quickly killed 1,746 people.
Africa is the only continent with land on both the equator and the prime meridian, as well as the only continent present in all four hemispheres.
It was discovered in 1972 that the only known naturally occurring nuclear reactor was a pocket of uranium in Africa that had undergone self-sustaining nuclear fission for hundreds of thousands of years.
The University of Karueein, which was established in Morocco in 859 AD, is the oldest university in the world still in continuous operation.
Over one million Chinese have moved to Africa since 2001.
37% of adults in Africa are illiterate.
Africa is the final destination for millions of tonnes of the world’s electronic waste, which is dumped in landfills there.
Before it was colonized, Africa was home to up to 10,000 separate states, autonomous groups, and unique languages and customs.
Africa has twice as much deforestation as the global average. Every year, more than 4 million hectares (9.9 million acres) of forest are lost.
Africa is home to nearly all 30 of the nations with the highest birth rates.
In Africa, giant rats have been trained to detect land mines. They have already played a significant role in the removal of 13,000 mines in Mozambique, aiding in the reclamation of 1,100 hectares of land.
AIDS is now the leading cause of death among adolescents in Africa.
Africa is both the world’s second-largest and second-most-populous continent.
Africa is being split into two due to the birth of a new ocean.
In just ten days in 2005, a 60 km (37 mile) long and 8 m (26 ft) wide section of the earth opened up.
In the Congo, King Leopold II of Belgium is thought to have caused 10 million deaths.
In 2017, a fragment of an extinct continent stretching from Madagascar to India was discovered beneath the African island of Mauritius.
The only government in the world with a majority of female lawmakers was that of Rwanda in 2009.
Niger has the highest rate of child marriage in the world, with 3 out of 4 girls getting married before turning 18.
The three-year-old slid off the throne, fled, and hid in his mother‘s lap when the coronation ceremony of King Oyo of the Toro Kingdom in Uganda started.
Compared to piped water and electricity, more Africans have access to cell phone service.
Donations of clothing are no longer needed in some parts of Africa. The region has become overly dependent on the West as a result of the enormous volume of these imports, which have decimated local apparel industries.
