Africa
continent
Facts
41 properties- Instance of
- continent, geographic location, region[2][3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 21.094°, 7.188°, 🗺️ 0.000°, 15.000°
- Area
- +30271000, +29648481
- Coordinates of geographic center
- 🗺️ 7.500°, 21.000°
- Demographics of topic
- demographics of Africa
- Demonym
- Afrikaan, African, Africain, afrikai, աֆրիկացի, afrikaner, Afrikano, африқоӣ, африканці, Aprikana, Aprikano, jan pi ma Apika, Afracach, africano, africana
- Described by source
- The Catholic Encyclopedia, The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, Otto's encyclopedia, Sytin Military Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), New International Encyclopedia, The New Student's Reference Work, Pauly–Wissowa[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]
- Economy of topic
- economy of Africa
- Geography of topic
- geography of Africa
- Geoshape
- 🗺️ View shape: Africa Flickr
- Has part(s)
- North Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, Southern Africa, East Africa[16][17][18][19][20]
- Hashtag
- africa
- Highest point
- Mount Kibo[21]
- History of topic
- history of Africa
- Located in time zone
- UTC−01:00, UTC±00:00, UTC+01:00, UTC+02:00, UTC+03:00, UTC+04:00[10][11][12][13][14][15]⚖ sources disagree Wikidata UTC−01:00 · UTC±00:00 · UTC+01:00 · UTC+02:00 · UTC+03:00 GeoNames Africa/Bangui edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
- Located in/on physical feature
- Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere[22][23]
- Lowest point
- Afar Triangle
- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Africa
- Most populous urban area
- Lagos
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C26272
Show all 41 facts +17
- Native label
- Africa
- Number of out-of-school children
- 101.0M (93.6M–106.0M, n=17)
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, WikiProject African diaspora, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- P14470
- Locations/Africa
- P14586
- 77218
- P14611
- 27313
- P14688
- 350
- P14968
- TER Rhône-Alpes
- Partially coincident with
- Aethiopia, African Continent
- Permanent duplicated item
- Wikidata item
- Population
- 1.5B (200.0M–1.5B, n=5)[24][25][26][27][28]⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1,100,000,000 · 200,000,000 · 1,200,000,000 · 1,275,920,972 · 1,549,862,036 GeoNames 1,031,833,000 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
- Social media followers
- +83694, +104436
- Studied by
- African studies, African studies
- Topic has template
- Template:Africa topic, Template:Countries of Africa
- Vehicles per thousand people
- +44
🏷️ Also known as
en African continent
en Africa
ar إفريقية
ar أفريقيا
ar القارة الأفريقية
ar إفريقيا
ar أفريقية
cs Afrika
de afrikanischer Kontinent
el Αφρική
es África
es Africa
es continente africano
fa آفریقا
fi Afrikka
fr Afrique
fr continent africain
he אפריקה
hi अंधेरा महाद्वीप
hi अफ्रीका
🔖 Identifiers · 223
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh85001531
- GND ID
- 4000695-5
- AEDA geographic keyword ID
- 3187
- AGROVOC ID
- c_165
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
- 294896791
- AccessScience ID
- 013900
- Algeria Press Service tag ID (English)
- africa
- Algeria Press Service tag ID (French)
- afrique
- All the Tropes article ID
- Africa
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID
- 2972
- Anarâš aavis topic ID
- afrik
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- AniDB tag ID
- 2835
- Apple Maps ID
- 2421058844323609548
- Arachne entity ID
- 4434421
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 3064
- Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
- scot/757
- BBC News topic ID
- cwgdj57820vt
- BBC Things ID
- d2c2ba68-f9ad-4185-a6d1-7f6437256735
- BNMM authority ID
- 000036895
- BabelNet ID
- 00001816n
- Baidu Tieba name
- 非洲
- Basisklassifikation
- 74.23
- Biblioteca Nacional de México ID
- 000000658
- Biblissima authority ID
- Hofuf
- Bing entity ID
- 5e22fc10-eb26-41e5-8fa4-dfed4a1f3508
- Britannica Kids kids level article ID
- 346071
- Britannica Kids scholars level article ID
- 108290
- Britannica Kids students level article ID
- 272745
- British Museum person or institution ID
- 148397
- British Museum place ID
- x21550
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- afrika-20
- CAB ID
- 12607
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID
- 01181a
- Colon Classification
- SG--6
- Comic Vine ID
- 4020-56944
- Curlie ID
- Regional/Africa/
- DR topic ID
- afrika
- Data Commons ID
- africa
- De Agostini ID
- Àfrica+(geografia)
- DeCS ID
- 354
- Deaf Movie Database country ID
- afr
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 2--6
- Dictionary of Late Antiquity ID
- 100
- EU Knowledge Graph item ID
- 4
- Edition humboldt digital ID
- H0002331
- El Moudjahid topic ID
- afrique
- El Watan topic ID
- afrique
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
- 69264
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID
- 201799
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID
- 44676
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID
- africa
- Encyclopedie berbere keyword ID
- 2664
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Africa
- EuroVoc ID
- 281
- Euronews topic ID
- africa
- European Education Thesaurus ID
- 3941
- FAST ID
- 1239509
- FactGrid item ID
- Fichtenau
- Fallout Wiki ID
- Africa
- Fandom article ID
- x-menevolution:Africa, naturerules1:Africa, marvel:Africa, historica:Africa
- France 24 topic ID (English)
- africa
- France 24 topic ID (French)
- afrique
- France 24 topic ID (Spanish)
- áfrica
- Freebase ID
- /m/0dg3n1
- GACS ID
- 3580
- GCMD keyword ID
- 2ca1b865-5555-4375-aa81-72811335b695
- GEMET ID
- 170
- GamesIndustry.biz tag ID
- topics/africa
- GeoNames ID
- 6255146
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 7001242
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)
- 3035-284
- GitHub topic
- africa
- Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online ID
- Africa
- Google Arts & Culture entity ID
- m0dg3n1
- Google Maps Customer ID
- 1189637262830268595
- Google News topics ID
- CAAqIggKIhxDQkFTRHdvSkwyMHZNR1JuTTI0eEVnSmxiaWdBUAE
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- africa
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0000875
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Afrika
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
- afrika-0897b5
- Grove Art Online ID
- T000675
- Gujarati Vishwakosh entry
- આફ્રિકા
- Gyldendals Teaterleksikon ID
- Afrika
- HDS ID
- 028992
- Harper's tag
- africa
- House Divided ID
- 9050
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
- 702
- Hungarian National Namespace place ID (new)
- 568797
- Hungarian National Namespace place ID (old)
- 197434
- IAB code
- 1222
- IDAI.gazetteer ID
- 2042601
- IMDb keyword
- africa
- INaturalist place ID
- 97392
- IPTC NewsCode
- worldregion/r002
- IdRef ID
- 027218546
- Interlingual Index ID
- i84937
- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia ID
- A/africa
- Islamic Art and Architecture ID
- 28
- Itch.io tag ID
- tag-africa
- J-GLOBAL ID
- 200906021532974767
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID
- 882
- Joconde discovery ID
- T115-2
- Joconde domain ID
- T51-111
- Joconde location ID
- T84-1
- KBpedia ID
- ContinentOfAfrica
- Klexikon article ID
- Afrika
- KulturNav-ID
- 22c4cdfd-649a-4188-a6f8-d3ce626e911d
- Kyiv Independent topic ID
- africa
- LC and MARC vocabularies ID
- geographicAreas/f
- LEMAC ID
- LEMAC201200486
- Larousse ID
- autre-region/Afrique/104181, divers/Afrique/184662
- Le Monde diplomatique subject ID
- pays/afrique
- Lex ID
- Afrika
- Libris-URI
- rp354fn93k1wgrp
- Lur Encyclopedic Dictionary ID
- 00088/eu_a_0886/a0886
- M49 code
- 002
- Mapcarta ID
- Africa
- Marine Regions Geographic ID
- 1923
- McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia ID
- A/africa
- MeSH concept ID
- M0000534
- MeSH descriptor ID
- D000349
- MeSH term ID
- T001119
- MeSH tree code
- Z01.058
- MobyGames genre ID
- 196
- Museum-digital place ID
- 2304
- My Abandonware theme ID
- 4o
- Myths on Maps ID
- AFRI1
- NALT ID
- 4825
- NDL Authority ID
- 00560082
- NE.se ID
- afrika
- NHK ONE News topic ID
- E0000000532
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge137148
- NRK topic ID
- 1.11102867
- Namuwiki ID
- 아프리카
- National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
- geo/5B200C4C-09C6-48DF-B019-65C786632ACA
- National Library of Brazil ID
- 000141659
- National Library of Chile ID
- 000004969
- National Library of Ireland ID
- vtls000114494
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007293831205171
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
- XX450575
- New York Post topic ID
- africa
- NicoNicoPedia ID
- アフリカ
- Nomisma ID
- greek_africa
- OBO Gazetteer ID
- 00000457
- OHDSI ID
- 4071830
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
- 71
- Omni topic ID
- 235ce8789b10497b3bbc2eac05a5200c6f72dd80
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 4019150
- Open Library subject ID
- place:africa
- OpenStreetMap node ID
- 36966057
- Out tag ID
- africa
- PACTOLS thesaurus ID
- pcrtLB2qBVhGjT
- PARES ID
- 83412
- PM20 geo code
- C1
- Peakbagger area ID
- 6
- Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
- アフリカ
- Postimees topic ID
- 3417
- Provenio UUID
- a397e2ad-fe3c-477f-bd0e-26b2c70f8d34
- Quora topic ID
- Africa
- RAWG tag ID
- africa
- RKD thesaurus ID
- 16138
- Radio Algeria topic ID (Arabic)
- إفريقيا
- Radio Algeria topic ID (French)
- afrique
- RationalWiki ID
- Africa
- Reddit topic ID
- africa
- Related category
- Category:Explorers of Africa
- SELIBR ID
- 138939
- SNARC ID
- Johann Frahm
- SNOMED CT ID
- 223498002
- STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
- 17642-3
- SVKKL authority ID
- g0002282-Afrika
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID
- 867
- ScholarGPS specialty ID
- 59483405742794
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
- geografico/1109063
- SummitPost ID
- 571794
- TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
- afrika
- TED topic ID
- Africa
- TV Tropes ID
- UsefulNotes/Africa
- TasteAtlas ID
- africa
- Teen Vogue tag ID
- africa
- The Advocate tag ID
- africa
- The Guardian topic ID
- world/africa
- The Independent topic ID
- africa
- The New Yorker topic ID
- africa
- Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae thesaurus ID
- ZBOIYJ5VIJC6RIX6XKP2JVYCQQ
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:Africa
- Topic's main category
- Category:Africa, Kaarangay:Aprika
- Treccani ID
- africa
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- africa
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
- africa_res-3a95aa29-9bbc-11e2-9d1b-00271042e8d9
- TripAdvisor ID
- 6
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10044605
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 8257
- UMLS CUI
- C0001737
- UNESCO Thesaurus ID
- concept688
- Vatican Library VcBA ID
- 497/9373
- Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID
- afrika
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- wc55qfcr
- Who's on First ID
- 102191573
- WikiKids ID
- Afrika
- Wolfram Language entity code
- Entity["GeographicRegion", "Africa"]
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 09212308-n
- World Encyclopedia of Puppetry Arts ID
- africa
- World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID
- 2
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJkHrMyfHC67yqRTycbrv3
- X (Twitter) topic ID
- 1286383048053805056
- YSA ID
- Y94080
- YSO ID
- 94080
- Yale LUX ID
- concept/46db7d09-aa3c-40ab-b567-ca088fb205ca
- Yle topic ID
- 18-196798
- Zhihu topic ID
- 19553520
- Ávvir topic ID
- afrihka
🔗 Connections
← Taxon range 2450
Things on this continent 1296
← Category combines topics 792
← Narrative location 159
Located in this place 92
← Operating area 23
Has these parts 18
Sudan,
South Sudan,
North Africa,
West Africa,
East Africa,
Central Africa,
Southern Africa,
Maghreb
+10 more
← Facet of 17
← Located in/on physical feature 13
Spain,
World War I,
North Africa,
West Africa,
East Africa,
Central Africa,
Southern Africa,
Sahel
+5 more
← Work location 13
Described by source 7
Named after 7
People born here 7
← Country of origin 7
← Location of discovery 6
Has part(s) 5
Belongs to 4
← Depicts 4
← Indigenous to 4
Instance of 3
People who died here 3
← Main subject 3
Located in/on physical feature 2
On focus list of Wikimedia project 2
Part of 2
Topic has template 2
← Applies to jurisdiction 2
← Field of work 2
Category for films shot at this location 1
Category for people born here 1
Category for people who died here 1
Category of associated people 1
Demographics of topic 1
EU Knowledge Graph item ID 1
Economy of topic 1
Geography of topic 1
History of topic 1
Lowest point 1
Maintained by WikiProject 1
Most populous urban area 1
Partially coincident with 1
Participated in 1
Related category 1
Residents 1
Studied by 1
Things located in country 1
Topic's main Wikimedia portal 1
Topic's main category 1
← Ancestral home 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Commemorates 1
← Diplomatic relation 1
← Domain of saint or deity 1
← EU Knowledge Graph item ID 1
← Endemic to 1
← FactGrid item ID 1
← Filming location 1
← Has boundary 1
← Is the study of 1
← Location of creation 1
← Location of formation 1
← Object of occurrence 1
← Partially coincident with 1
← Represents 1
← TDKIV Wikibase ID 1
← Template has topic 1
← UN/CEFACT Common Code 1
← Used by 1
← Wikimedia portal's main topic 1
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Summary
Africa is a continent[1].
Body
Works and Contributions
Things named for Africa include African Corps[43], an army corps[44], in Russia[45], founded in 2023[46], headquartered in Ouagadougou[47]; Afroasiatic[48], a language family[49], founded in -7000[50]; Republic of New Afrika[51], a social movement[52], in United States[53], founded in 1968[54]; African Plate[55], a tectonic plate[56]; MV Africa Mercy[57], a hospital ship[58]; Afrikanisches Viertel[59], a neighborhood[60], in Germany[61]; galinha à Africana[62]; and 1193 Africa[63], an asteroid[64].
Why It Matters
Entities named for Africa include African Corps[43], an army corps[44], in Russia[45], founded in 2023[46], headquartered in Ouagadougou[47]; Afroasiatic[48], a language family[49], founded in -7000[50]; Republic of New Afrika[51], a social movement[52], in United States[53], founded in 1968[54]; African Plate[55], a tectonic plate[56]; MV Africa Mercy[57], a hospital ship[58]; and Afrikanisches Viertel[59], a neighborhood[60], in Germany[61].
🛰️ Living Edge
· news-derived, source-cited
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served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
Member of
UN
emerging0.803 independent sources
evidence “Africa covers more than 30 million square kilometers and contains 54 internationally recognized UN member states.” cameroononline.org · read source
Member of
African countries
emerging0.722 independent sources
evidence “This is pan-Africanism that delivers results,” Dussey said.” independent.co.ug · read source