60 Interesting Facts about Africa

60 Interesting Facts about Africa

About Africa: It is the second-largest continent, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean. The Equator divides it almost exactly in half. Africa’s physical geography, environment, resources, and human geography can all be examined separately.

Facts about Africa

Africa is larger than China, USA, India, Mexico and a big part of Europe combined.

The shortest distance between Europe and Africa is 14.3 km (8.9 mi) by sea, and plans are underway to build the longest bridge ever.

The largest and tallest land animals in the world, the African elephant and giraffe, are found in Africa.

The same set of tools that were discovered in a cave 44,000 years ago are still in use today by the San people of Southern Africa.

41% of children in Africa aged 5 to 14 are involved in child labour.

To obtain water, people in Asia and Africa must walk an average of 3.7 miles (6 KM).

12.5 million Africans were abducted and sold into slavery in the Americas between 1525 and 1866.

Facebook has 100 million active users in Africa.

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60 Interesting Facts about Africa
96 elephants are killed every day in Africa.

The deadliest animal in Africa is the hippopotamus.

The mothers of the Dogon people in West Africa encouraged their married women to engage in extramarital affairs in public.

60 Interesting Facts about Africa
60 Interesting Facts about Africa
South Africa is called the “Rainbow Nation” because it has 11 official languages.

There’s a beer brewed from bananas in Africa.

South Africans can legally attach flamethrowers to cars to repel carjackers.

The only woman to have served as first lady of both Mozambique and South Africa is Graça Machel.

The only woman to have served as first lady of both Mozambique and South Africa is Graça Machel.
60 Interesting Facts about Africa
Lightning killed all 11 players on an African football team in 1998, but spared the other team’s players.

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60 Interesting Facts about Africa
One location—the Witwatersrand in South Africa—has produced almost half of all gold ever extracted.

Africa does not have wild tigers, despite what the general public believes. Only in the Asian region.

Between 1530 and 1780, more than a million Europeans were taken captive and sold into slavery in North Africa.

There are more people speaking French in Africa than in France.

Soccer player Didier Drogba is recognized for having helped to mediate the end of a five-year civil war in his native Ivory Coast.

The majority of the fastest runners in the world are members of the “Kalenjins,” a single tribe from Kenya, Africa.

The majority of the fastest runners in the world are members of the "Kalenjins," a single tribe from Kenya, Africa.
60 Interesting Facts about Africa
Africa‘s Tanzania has one of the highest rates of albinism worldwide. Witch doctors frequently hunt albinos to use in their concoctions.

The only nation on Earth that is entirely above 1000 metres in elevation is Lesotho, located in Africa.

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin‘s official title was “His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”

The country of Liberia, in Africa, was established by U.S. citizens as a colony for former African-American slaves and their free black descendants.

The country of Ghana, in Africa, banned the sale of secondhand underwear, In 2010.

1 in 4 adults in Swaziland, Africa, are infected with HIV.

President Banana was the first African president of Zimbabwe.

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