Interesting Africa Facts - People of
Africa
1) The African continent has the second largest
population in the world, at about one
billion people.

2) over one thousand languages are
spoken by the people of Africa. Some
estimates put this number closer to two
thousand.

3) The largest religion in Africa is Islam,
followed by Christianity.

4) The African population is approximately
14.72% of the world's population (as of
2009).

5)The oldest human remains ever discovered
were found in Ethiopia. They are
approximately 200,000 years old.

Interesting Africa Facts - Africa
Landforms


1)The longest river in the world, the Nile
(4,132 miles), is located in Africa.

2) Africa has the world's largest desert, the
Sahara, which is almost the size of the
United States.

3) Victoria Falls is the largest waterfall in
Africa; it is 355 feet high and one mile
wide.

4)Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain
on the continent. It towers over 19,300 feet,
which is so tall that glaciers can be found at
its summit even though the mountain is
near the equator.

5) Madagascar is the largest island in Africa
and the fourth largest island in the world.
It is in the Indian Ocean off the East coast
of Africa.

Interesting Africa Facts - The
continent


1) Africa is the second largest continent on
earth, approximately 11.7 million square
miles.

2) Africa straddles the equator and is the only
continent to extend from the northern
temperate zone to the southern temperate
zone.

3) Africa is the hottest continent on earth.
Sudan is Africa's largest country (968,000
square miles).

4) Africa covers 6 percent of the earth's total
surface and 20.4 percent of the total land
area.

5)Cairo is the continents largest city.
Long before humans were around (the early
Mesozoic Era) Africa was joined to the
other continents in a massive continent
called Pangaea. Over millions of years this
huge continent broke apart shaping the
world landscape as we know it today.

Interesting Africa Facts - Animals


1) The worlds largest land animal is the
African elephant.

2) The worlds tallest animal, the giraffe, lives
in Africa.

3) The fastest land animal in the world, the
cheetah, lives in Africa.

4) Africa is home to the worlds largest reptile,
the Nile crocodile.

5) The gorilla, which can be found in the
continents jungles, is the worlds largest
primate.