Africa Continent

The continent of Africa is Known as the Gold and Diamond mine of the world. Because all of the Gold and Diamond are products from African Continent.

Africa is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.The continent straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas, and is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones. Africa, particularly central eastern Africa, is widely thought (by science) to be the origin of humans as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors.

1. Continent Size: 30,065,000 sq km or 11,608,000 sq miles
2. Coastline: 30,539 km or 18,976 miles
3. Percent of Earth's Land: 20.2%
4. Population: 1,000,050,000 (2010 )
5. Highest Point: Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 19,341 ft or 5,895 m
6. Lowest Point: Lac' (lake) Assal, Djibouti 512 ft or 156 m below sea level

(Tribal Women of the African Continent)

Large percentage of African continent contain with the desert and low content of pure water, Also the economic status of many countries at the very low level. The education level also in a very low condition when consider with economy.The more humid regions have a richer vegetation; dense forest where the rainfall is greatest and variations of temperature least, conditions found chiefly on the tropical coasts, and in the west African equatorial basin with its extension towards the upper Nile; and savanna interspersed with trees on the greater part of the plateaus, passing as the desert regions are approached into a scrub vegetation consisting of thorny acacias, etc. Forests also occur on the humid slopes of mountain ranges up to a certain elevation. In the coast regions the typical tree is the mangrove, which flourishes wherever the soil is of a swamp character.