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The second-largest continent in existence, Africa comprises more than 50 different countries and many of the world's most famous cities. In Tanzania, Kilimanjaro is a record-breaking free-standing mountain and features no less than three volcanic cones. At the other end of the scale, Lake Assal in Djibouti is actually the lowest point in the whole of Africa, while the sweeping sand dunes of the Sahara Desert offer something completely different.

Known for its diamond mines and extensive gold resources, Africa also offers some epic tourist magnets, such as the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, which is actually one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. South Africa is another popular country and is where you will encounter the famous Table Mountain at Cape Town and a multitude of soaring skyscrapers in the modern metropolis of Johannesburg.

Many visitors come to Africa for its wildlife, with spreading national parks and game reserves being home to elephants, giraffes, lions and zebras, amongst many other indigenous African animals. Particularly notable safaris are based around the Okavango Delta and also within the national parks of Etosha, Kruger, Masai Mara, Nairobi, Serengeti, the Simien Mountains and South Luangwa. Kenya is an especially popular safari destination in Africa and features many superb wildlife reserves.

On the far north-westerly tip of Africa and lying next to Algeria, the country of Morocco is another popular tourist destination. Morocco's capital city of Marrakech offers everything from sumptuous Moroccan palaces and mosques, to kasbahs and an enormous lively market (souq) known throughout the world.

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Africa Information / Facts

• Continent: Africa
• Countries: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
• Area: 78,272,000 square miles / 30,221,000 square km
• Population: over 1,000,000,000
• Main African cities: Abidjan, Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Alexandria, Algiers, Bamako, Banghazi, Benin, Brazzaville, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Conakry, Cotonou, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Douala, Durban, Fès, Freetown, Harare, Ibadan, Johannesburg, Kaduna, Kampala, Kano, Khartoum, Kinshasa, Kumasi, Lagos, Luanda, Lubumbashi, Lusaka, Maiduguri, Maputo, Mbuji-Mayi, Mogadishu, Monrovia, Nairobi, Oran, Ouagadougou, Port Elizabeth, Port Harcourt, Pretoria, Rabat, Tripoli, Tunis, Vereeniging, Yaoundé and Zaria
• Languages: more than 2,000 languages, including Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Chichewa, English, French, Kinyarwanda, Ndebele, Pedi, Portuguese, Sango, Shona, Somali, Sotho, Spanish, Swahili, Swazi, Swazi, Tigrinya, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu
• Currencies: Algerian dinar, American dollar, Burundi franc, Cape Verdean escudo, Central African CFA franc, CFA franc, Comorian franc, Congolese franc, Dalasi, Djiboutian franc, Dobra, Egyptian pound, Ethiopian birr, Ghanaian cedi, Guinean franc, Kenyan shilling, Kwanza, Liberian dollar, Libyan dinar, Lilangeni, Loti, Malagasy ariary, Malawian kwacha, Mauritian rupee, Moroccan dirham, Mozambican metical, Naira, Nakfa, Namibian dollar, Ouguiya, Pula, Rwandan franc, Sierra Leonean leone, Somali shilling, South African rand, Sudanese pound, Tanzanian shilling, Tunisian dinar, Ugandan shilling, West African CFA franc, Zambian kwacha and Zimbabwean dollar
• Time zones : UTC-1 to UTC+4