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Africa meaning

EN[ˈæfɹɪkə]
WAfrica
  • Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.2 million km2 (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers six percent of Earth's total surface area and 20.4 percent of its total land area. With 1.
  • Africa's population is the youngest among all the continents; 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria by population.
  • Africa host a large diversity of ethnicities, cultures and languages. In the late 19th century European countries colonized most of Africa. Most modern states in Africa originate from a process of decolonization in the 20th century.
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Africa

    Definition of Africa in English Dictionary

  • Proper nounSUF-ica
    1. (historical) A province of the Roman Empire containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
      1. The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica.
        1. The Maghreb and the Subsahara are regions of Africa with different geographies.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • The only other hyaenodonts known at that time were the teratodontine Dissopsalis, which was present in Africa and Asia [134 ] and the koholiine Metapterodon, which was possibly present in Asia [135 ].
        • Blatter said Asia and Africa were not democratically represented on the exco he has chaired as president since 1998.
        • In the 1970s, Sino-Soviet rivalry also spread to Africa and the Middle East.
      2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
        • Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.
        • The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Nouns
        • Proper nouns
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      1. en African
      2. en Africans
      3. fr Africain
      4. en Africana
      5. en Africanis
      Source: Wiktionary

      Meaning of Africa for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "Africa" is a noun, more specifically, a proper noun.
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