AFRICA

 
Africa is world’s second big continent with 30,2 million km2 area and 1 billion official population. Meditarranean sea 
is North, Atlas ocean is west and Indian ocean is South east neighbour. Africa has 56 countries.
 
THE ORIGIN OF AFRICA NAME ?  Afri is the name of a nation that lived near Kartaca ( North Africa ). According to the 
latest theory this word has been produced from Ifri which means caveman. Africa, Ifri and Afer terms  used by  Algerien Banu 
and Ifran tribes and Berberian Yafran tribe for centuries. 
  
THE CROWDEST 3 COUNTRIES ?  Nigeria ( 149.000.000 ), Ethiopia ( 83.700.450 ), Egypt ( 80.335.036 )
 
THE CROWDEST 3 CITIES ?  Cairo (14.800.000), Lagos (11.400.000), Kinshasa
 
THE BIGGEST METROPOLITAN LIFE RATIO ? Libya ( % 88 ), Tunisia ( % 66.2 ), Algeria ( % 57.7 )
 
THE LONGEST  3 RIVERS :  1) Nile ( 6650KM)  2) Congo (4700km)  3) Niger (4200km)
 
THE HIGHEST 3 MOUNTAINS : 1) Klimanjaro (Tanzania-5885 m) 2) Ras Dashen (Ethiopia-3990m ) 3) Mount Cameroun ( Cameroun-3956 m )
 
OFFICIAL DOMESTIC  LANGUAGES Africa’s 17 % population speak Arabic dialects. Also 10% speak  Swahili, 5% speak Berberi, and 5% speak 
Hausa. The other important West African languages are Yoruba, Igbo and Fula including Hausa. The mostly speaking Southern Africa languages 
are Somalia and Oromo. Zula and Afrikaans are other mostly speaking languages in Southern Africa.
 
AMHARIC : Ethiopia
ARABIC: Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Morocco, Comorros, Libya, Egypt, Moritania, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia
CHICHEWA : Malawi
KINYARVARDA : Rwanda ( same as Kirundi language of Burundi  )
MALAGASY : Madagascar
SANGO: Central Africa Republic
SEYCHELLES CRAOLE: Seychelles
SHONA : Zimbabwe
SOMALI : Somalia
SWAHILI: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda
SWAZI : Swaziland, South Africa
TIGRINYA : Eritrea
* Afrikaans, Ndebele, Xhosa, Zulu, Pedi, Sotho, Tswana, Swazi, Venda, and Tsonga are official domestic languages of South Africa
COLONIAL LANGUAGES
 
The official colonial languages are English ( 130 Million ), 
French ( 115 Million ), Portuquese ( 20 Million ) and 
Spanish ( 15 Million )
 
FRENCH  Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroun, Central 
Africa Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Congo, 
Djibuti, Equitorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, , Ivory Coast, 
Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo. 
 
ENGLISH  Botswana, Cameroun, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, 
Lesotho, Liberia, Mauritus, Malawi, Nigeria, Namibia,Rwanda, 
Saint Helena, South Africa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, 
Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe,
 
PORTEQUESE Angola, Cape Verde, Equitorial Guinea, 
Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome & Principe
 
SPANISH  Equitorial Guinea, Western Sahara