List of Countries in Africa

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List of Countries in Africa

List of African Countries

Algeria	Angola	Benin	Botswana	Burkina Faso

Burundi	Cameroon	Cape Verde	60px Central African Republic	Chad

Comoros	Congo, DRC	Congo, Republic of the	Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	Djibouti

Egypt	Equatorial Guinea	Eritrea	Ethiopia	Gabon

Gambia, The	Ghana	Guinea	Guinea-Bissau	Kenya

Lesotho	Liberia	Libya	Madagascar	Malawi

Mali	Mauritania	Mauritius	Mayotte	Morocco

Mozambique	Namibia	Niger	Nigeria	Rwanda

Saint Helena	Sau Tome and Princepe	Senegal	Seychelles	Sierra Leone

Somalia	South Africa	Sudan	Swaziland	Tanzania

Togo	Tunisia	Uganda	Western Sahara

Zambia	Zimbabwe

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Africa, the planet's 2nd largest continent and the second most-populous continent (after Asia) includes (53) individual countries, as well as Western Sahara, a member state of the African Union whose statehood is disputed by Morocco.

With just over a billion people (a 2009 estimate) it accounts for just over 14% of the world's human population. It also contains the Nile River system, the world's longest, and the massive Sahara Desert, the world's largest.

Africa is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

The continent straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas, and is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones.

Africa, particularly central eastern Africa, is widely thought (by science) to be the origin of humans as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors.