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List of African countries:
(highlighted names are featured nations from previous months.)

Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Djibouti Egypt Equitorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia The Gambia

Gabon Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger

Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé & Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zaire Zambia Zimbabwe

Interesting facts about Africa's geography

Africa is the second largest continent in the world. Only Asia is bigger.



Because it has very few jagged coasts and bays, Africa has the shortest coastline of all the other continents.

Three-fourths of Africa is in the tropics.




Africa is almost an island. Its only connection to other land is the tiny Sinai Peninsula in Egypt.


Africa is four times the size of the United States.



Africa includes Madagascar, which is the fourth largest island in the world (Greenland is the largest).

Kilimanjaro, one of the world's largest mountains, is actually a volcano.

Interesting facts about Africa's people

Africa is so large that a full population census has never been made. Estimates say that the continent and its nearby islands may be home to as many as 748 million people.




There are over 1,000 different languages in Africa.


Some African languages are spoken by millions of people, while others are spoken by only a few hundred. Some are on the verge of extinction and are only spoken by a few elderly people.


The topmost part of Africa has several countries that are actually considered to be part of the Middle East, such as Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia.


Africa's people have more physical variations than on any other continent in the world




Africa has some of the shortest and the tallest people in the world.


Africa is the home of the Human species, which developed there about 5 million years ago.