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Africa is the world’s second largest continent in the world, as well as having the second biggest population. The current population of Africa, based on UN estimates is estimated at 1,420,000, as of December, 2022. This amounts to around  16.72% of the total world population.

The Hausa are the largest ethnic group in Africa, numbering around 78 million people. Primarily located in West Africa in northwestern Nigeria and southern Niger but can also be found in Cameroon, Togo, Chad, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Ghana.
 
Covering around 6% of the Earth’s total surface area, Africa covers 30.3 Million square kilometres.
Interestingly too, Africa is accepted as the place of the origin of humans. Homo sapiens is thought to have originated in Africa round 350,000 years ago.

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Southern Africa is the southern-most region of Africa.

Southern Africa is home to a number of river systems; the Zambezi River being the most prominent. The Zambezi flows from the northwest corner of Zambia and western Angola to the Indian Ocean on the coast of Mozambique. It flows over the Victoria Falls on the border between Zambia, in the north and Zimbabwe, in the south. Victoria Falls is one of the largest waterfalls in the world.

Tanzania is a country in East Africa. It borders Uganda in the north, Kenya in the northeast, the Indian Ocean in the east, Mozambique and Malawi in the south, Zambia to the southwest, and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the west. Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, is in northeastern part of Tanzania.

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The Middle East is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The region includes the vast majority of the territories included in the closely associated definition of West Asia, but without the South Caucasus. It also includes all of Egypt and all of Turkey.

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