Africa
Continent
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area. With 1.4 billion people as of 2021, it accounts for about 18% of the world's human population.
Africa, the second largest continent, is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean. It is divided almost equally in half by the Equator. Africa's physical geography, environment and resources, and human geography can be considered separately.
6 African Tribes with Traditional African Cultures; The Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania, Himba of northwest Namibia, Zulu of South Africa, Bushman, San or Khoisan, of Southern Africa, Southern Ndebele tribe of South Africa and the Samburu of Northern Kenya.
There are 54 countries in Africa today, according to the United Nations. The full list is shown in the table below, with current population and subregion (based on the United Nations official statistics).
