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{{Infobox Continent
|title          = Africae
|image          = Africa (orthographic projection).svg
|area           = {{convert|30,370,000|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}},&nbsp;[[Leet o continents bi aurie|2nt]]
|population     = {{UN_Population|Africa}}{{UN_Population|ref}} ({{UN_Population|Year}}, [[Leet o continents bi population|2nt]])
|density        = {{pop density|1100000000|30221532|km2|sqmi}}
|GDP_nominal    = $2.1 trillion (2016, [[Leet o continents bi GDP (nominal)|5t]])
|GDP_PPP        = $6.0 trillion (2016, 5t)  
|GDP_per_capita = $1,809 (2016, [[Leet o continents bi GDP (nominal)#GDP per capita .28nominal.29 bi continents|6t]])<ref>{{cite web|title=IMF (WEO April 2017 Edition) GDP nominal per capita - international dollar|url=https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2017/01/weodata/index.aspx}}</ref>
|demonym        = [[Ethnic groups o Africae|African]]
|countries      = 54 (an 2 disputit)
|list_countries = Leet o sovereign states an dependent territories in Africae
|dependencies   = {{Collapsible list
|list_style     = text-align:left;
|title          = Freemit (3)
| 1 = {{flag|Mayotte}} | 2 = {{flag|Réunion}} | 3 = {{flag|Saunt Helena, Ascension an Tristan da Cunha}}
}}
{{Collapsible list
|list_style     = text-align:left;
|title          = Internal (4)
| 1 = {{flag|Canary Islands}} | 2 = {{flag|Ceuta}}
| 3 = {{flag|Madeira}} | 4 = {{flag|Melilla}}
}}
|languages      = [[Leids o Africae|1250–3000 native leids]]
|time           = [[UTC-1]] tae [[UTC+4]]
|cities         = [[Leet o ceeties in Africae]]<br>{{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Lagos]]<br>{{flagicon|Egypt}} [[Cairo]]<br>{{flagicon|Democratic Republic of the Congo}} [[Kinshasa]]<br>{{flagicon|South Africa}} [[Johannesburg]]<br>{{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Abuja]]<br>{{flagicon|Sudan}} [[Khartoum]]<br>{{flagicon|Tanzania}} [[Dar es Salaam]]<br>{{flagicon|Egypt}} [[Alexandria]]<br>{{flagicon|Ivory Coast}} [[Abidjan]]<br>{{flagicon|Algeria}} [[Algiers]]<br>{{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Kano]]<br>{{flagicon|Morocco}} [[Casablanca]]<br>{{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Ibadan]]<br>{{flagicon|Kenya}} [[Nairobi]]<br>{{flagicon|Ethiopia}} [[Addis Ababa]]<br>{{flagicon|Ghana}} [[Accra]]
}}
'''Africae''' is the warld's seicont mucklest an seicont maist-populous [[continent]] (the first bein [[Asie]] in baith categories). At aboot 30.3 million km<sup>2</sup> (11.7 million square&nbsp;miles) includin adjacent islands, it cuivers 6% o [[Yird|Yird's]] tot surface aurie an 20.4% o its tot laund aurie.<ref name=Sayre>Sayre, April Pulley (1999), ''Africa'', Twenty-First Century Books. {{ISBN|0-7613-1367-2}}.</ref> Wi {{#expr:{{replace|{{UN_Population|Africa}}|,||}}/1e9 round 1}} billion{{UN_Population|ref}} fowk as o {{UN_Population|Year}}, it accoonts for aboot 16% o the warld's [[human population]]. The continent is surroundit bi the [[Mediterranean Sea]] tae the north, baith the [[Suez Canal]] an the [[Reid Sea]] alang the [[Sinai Peninsula]] tae the northeast, the [[Indie Ocean]] tae the sootheast an the [[Atlantic Ocean]] tae the wast. The continent includes [[Madagascar]] an various [[airchipelago]]s. It conteens 54 [[diplomatic recognition|fully recognised]] [[sovereign state]]s ([[kintra]]s), nine [[Territory (kintra subdiveesion)|territories]] an twa ''[[de facto]]'' independent [[Leet o states wi leemitit recogneetion|states wi leemitit or na recogneetion]].<ref>See [[Leet o sovereign states an dependent territories in Africae]].</ref> The majority o the continent an its kintras are in the [[Northren Hemisphere]], wi a substantial portion an nummer o kintras in the [[Soothren Hemisphere]].

Africae's average population is the youngest amangst aw the continents;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/17/5-ways-the-world-will-look-dramatically-different-in-2100/|title=5 ways the world will look dramatically different in 2100|first=Ana|last=Swanson|date=17 August 2015|publisher=|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/njideka-u-harry/african-youth-innovation-_b_3904408.html|work=Huffington Post|first=Njideka U.|last=Harry|title=African Youth, Innovation and the Changing Society|date=11 September 2013}}</ref> the [[median]] age in 2012 wis 19.7, whan the warldwide median age wis 30.4.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/esa/population/cpd/cpd2012/Agenda%20item%204/UN%20system%20statements/ECA_Item4.pdf|title=item,4 of the provisional agenda&nbsp;– General debate on national experience in population matters: adolescents and youth|work=United Nations Economic Commission for Africa|author=Abdoulie Janneh|date=April 2012|accessdate=15 December 2015|archive-date=2013-11-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110111359/http://www.un.org/esa/population/cpd/cpd2012/Agenda%20item%204/UN%20system%20statements/ECA_Item4.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Algerie]] is Africae's mucklest kintra bi aurie, an [[Nigerie]] is its mucklest bi population. Africae, pairteecularly central [[Eastren Africae]], is widely acceptit as the place o oreegin o [[human]]s an the [[Hominidae]] [[clade]] ([[great ape]]s), as [[evidence]]d bi the diskivery o the earliest [[hominids]] an thair auncestors, as weel as later anes that hae been datit tae aroond seiven million years ago, includin ''[[Sahelanthropus tchadensis]]'', ''[[Australopithecus africanus]]'', ''[[Australopithecus afarensis|A. afarensis]]'', ''[[Homo erectus]]'', ''[[Homo habilis|H. habilis]]'' an ''[[Homo ergaster|H. ergaster]]''—wi the earliest ''[[Homo sapiens]]'' (modren human) foond in [[Ethiopie]] bein datit tae circa 200,000 year ago.<ref>[http://web.utah.edu/unews/releases/05/feb/homosapiens.html Homo sapiens: University of Utah News Release: 16 February 2005] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024234234/http://web.utah.edu/unews/releases/05/feb/homosapiens.html |date=24 October 2007 }}</ref> Africae straidles the [[equator]] an encompasses numerous climate auries; it is the anly continent tae stretch frae the northren [[temperate]] tae soothren temperate zones.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.visualgeography.com/continents/africa.html|title=Africa. General info|author=Visual Geography|accessdate=24 November 2007}}</ref>

Africae hosts a muckle diversity o [[Ethnic groups o Africae|ethnicities]], culturs an [[Leids o Africae|leids]]. In the [[New Imperialism|late 19t century]] European kintras [[Scrammle for Africae|colonised awmaist aw o Africae]]; maist present states in Africae oreeginatit frae a process o [[Decolonisation o Africae|decolonisation]] in the 20t century. African naitions cooperate throu the establishment o the [[African Union]], that is heidquartert in [[Addis Ababa]].

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