Africa is the world’s second-largest and second most – populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth’s total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area. With more than 900,000,000 people (as of 2005) in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14% of the world’s human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

Algeria	Angola	Benin	Botswana
Burkina Faso	Burundi	Cameroon	Cape Verde
Central African Rep.	Chad	Comoros	Congo
Côte d’Ivoire	Democratic Rep. Congo	Djibouti	Egypt
Equatorial Guinea	Eritrea	Ethiopia	Gabon
Gambia	Ghana	Guinea	Guinea Bissau
Kenya	Lesotho	Liberia	Libya
Madagascar	Malawi	Mali	Mauritania
Mauritius	Mayotte	Morocco	Mozambique
Namibia	Niger	Nigeria	Réunion
Rwanda	Saint Helena	São Tomé & Príncipe	Senegal
Seychelles	Sierra Leone	Somalia	South Africa
Sudan	Swaziland	Tanzania	Togo
Tunisia	Uganda	Western Sahara	Zambia
Tunisia