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53 Facts of Africa

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13°00′N, 2°00′W
With an area of 274,200 km², Burkina Faso is slightly larger than Colorado.
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13°00′N, 2°00′W
An island nation, the Seychelles is located about 1,600 km (1,000 mi) east of Kenya. The number of islands in the archipelago is often given as 115 but the Constitution of the Republic of Seychelles lists 155.
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12°30′S, 18°30′E
Angola is the world′s 23rd largest country. At 1,246,700 km² (481,321 sq mi), It is nearly twice the size of the U.S. state of Texas, or five times the area of the United Kingdom.
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8°00′N, 3°00′E
Algeria comprises 2,381,741 km² of land, more than four fifths of which is desert, between Morocco and Tunisia.
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9°30′N, 2°15′E
With an area of 112,622 km², roughly the size of Pennsylvania, Benin extends from the Niger River in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south.
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3°30′S, 30°00′E
Burundi is one of the smallest countries in Africa occupying 27,830 km² in size of which 25,650 km² is land.
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22°00′S, 24°00′E
At 600,370 km² (231,788 sq mi), Botswana is the world′s 45th-largest country. It is comparable in size to Madagascar, and it is slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Texas.
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3°52′N, 11°31′E
At 475,442 km² (183,569 sq mi), Cameroon is the world′s 53rd-largest country. It is comparable in size to Papua New Guinea and somewhat larger than the U.S. state of California.
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16°30′N, 24°00′W
The archipelago consists of 10 islands and 5 islets. Total area is 4,033 km² It is slightly larger than Rhode Island in the U.S. or Suffolk in the UK.
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15°00′N, 19°00′E
At 1,284,000 km² (496,000 sq mi), Chad is the world′s 21st largest country. It is slightly smaller than Peru and slightly larger than South Africa.
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15°19′N, 4°19′W
The size of Congo, 2,345,408 km² (905,567 sq mi), is slightly greater than the combined areas of Spain, France, Germany, Sweden and Norway.
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4°14′S, 15°148′E
The Republic of the Congo covers an area of 342,000 km², of which 341,500 km² is land while 500 km² is water.
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11°41′S, 43°16′E
At 2,235 km² (863 sq mi), it is one of the smallest countries in the world. The Comoros is slightly more than 12 times the size of Washington DC.
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8°00′N, 5°00′W
In total, Côte d′Ivoire comprises 322,460 km², of which 318,000 km² is land and 4,460 km² is water, which makes the country slightly larger than the U.S. state of New Mexico or about the size of Germany.
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27°00′S, 30°00′E
At 1,001,450 km² (386,660 sq mi), Egypt is the world′s 38th-largest country. It is approximately the same size as all of Central America or twice the size of Spain.
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15°00′N, 39°00′E 
In total Eritrea comprises 124 320 km² of which 121 320 km² is land and 3 000 km² is water. It is slightly larger than Pennsylvania.
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3°45′N, 8°47′W
With an area of 28,000 km² it is one of the smallest countries in continental Africa, slightly smaller than Maryland.
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9°01′N, 38°44′E
Ethiopia is the world′s 27th-largest country. It is comparable in size to Bolivia.
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0°23′N, 9°27′W
Gabon has a total of 267,667 km² and is slightly smaller than Colorado.
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5°33′N, 0°15′W
At 239,460 km² Ghana, which lies in the center of the West African coast, is slightly smaller than Oregon.
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11°00′N, 10°00′W
At 94,919 sq mi (245,857 km²), Guinea is roughly the size of the United Kingdom and slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Oregon.
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12°00′N, 15°00′W
At 13,945 sq mi. (36,120 km²), Guinea-Bissau is nearly identical in size to Taiwan, and somewhat larger than the U.S. state of Maryland.
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1°16′S, 36°48′E
At 582,646 km² (224,961 sq mi), Kenya is the world′s 47th largest country. It is slightly more than twice the size of Nevada.
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110°30′N, 43°00′E
At 23,000 km² (8,880 sq mi) Djibouti is slightly smaller than Massachusetts.
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13°28′N, 16°34′W
The Gambia is the smallest country on the continent of Africa. The country is less than 48 km wide at its widest point, with a total area of 11,300 km² - About twice the size of Delaware.
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13°28′N, 16°34′W
At 196,190 km² Senegal, between Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania, is slightly smaller than South Dakota.
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29°30′S, 28°30′E
Lesotho covers 30,355 km² (11,720 sq mi). It is the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 1,000 m (3,300 ft) in elevation. It is slightly smaller than Maryland.
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6°30′N, 9°30′W
Liberia comprises 111,370 km², making the country slightly smaller than the U.S. state of Washington.
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25°00′N, 17°00′E
Libya extends over 1,759,540 km² (679,182sq. mi), making it the 17th largest country in the world. Libya is somewhat smaller than Indonesia, roughly the size of the U.S. state of Alaska.
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20°00′S, 47°00′E
At 587,000 km² (226,640 sq mi), Madagascar is the world′s 46th-largest country and the fourth largest island. It is slightly bigger than France.
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13°30′ S, 34°00′ E
At 118,484 km² (945,747 sq mi) Malawi is the world′s 99th-largest country, slightly smaller than Pennsylvania.
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17°00′N, 4°00′W
At 1,240,000 km² (479,000 sq mi), Mali is the world′s 24th largest country and is comparable in size to South Africa or Peru.
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20°00′N, 12°00′W
At 1,030,700 km² (397,929 sq mi), Mauritania is the world′s 29th largest country after Bolivia. It is comparable in size to Egypt.
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20°17′N, 57°33′W
2,040 km² (787sq mi) MauritiU.S. lies in Southern Africa; it′s an island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. It is almost 11 times the size of Washington DC.
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32°00′N, 5°00′W
At 172,402 sq.mi (446,550 km²), Morocco is the world′s 57th largest country. It is comparable in size to Iraq, and is somewhat larger than the U.S. state of California.
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18°15′S, 35°00′E
At 801,590 km² (309,475 sq mi), Mozambique is the world′s 35th-largest country comparable in size to Turkey.
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22°00′S, 17°00′E
Namibia is the world′s 34th largest country after Venezuela. At 825,418 km² (318,696 sq mi), it is slightly more than half the size of Alaska.
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16°00′N, 8°00′E
Its area is 1,267,000 km² (489,000 sq mi). This makes the largest nation in West Africa, slightly less than twice the size of the U.S. state of Texas, and the world′s twenty-second largest country. Niger is comparable in size to Angola.
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16°00′N, 8°00′E
Nigeria has a total area of 923,768 km² (356,669 mi²), making it the world′s 32nd-largest country after Tanzania. It is comparable in size to Venezuela, about twice the size of California.
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2°00′S, 30°00′E
Rwanda is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It borders Burundi for 290 km, the Democratic Republic of the Congo for 217 km, Tanzania for 217 km, and Uganda for 169 km.
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1°00′N, 7°00′E
The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, constitute Africa′s second smallest country. São Tomé is 50 km (31 miles) long and 32 km (20 miles). Its peaks reach 2,024 m (6,640 ft). Príncipe is about 30 km (19 miles) long and 6 km (4 miles) wide.
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14°00′N, 14°00′W
The country′s total area is 196 190 km² making Senegal slightly smaller than Britain or the U.S. state of South Dakota.
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8°30′N, 11°30′W
Sierra Leone covers a total area of 71,740 km² (27,699 sq mi). It is slightly smaller than South Carolina.
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10°00′N, 49°00′E
Somalia has a land area of 637,540 km² (246,201 sq mi). Slightly smaller than Texas, it is the world′s 42nd-largest country.
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29°00′S, 24°00′E
At 470,979 sq mi (1,219,912 km²), South Africa is the 25th-largest country in the world (after Mali). It is comparable in size to Colombia.
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15°00′N, 30°00′E
With an area of 2,505,810 km² (967,499 sq mi), it is the largest country on the continent and the 10th largest in the world. Slightly more than one-quarter the size of the U.S..
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26°49′S, 31°38′E
Swaziland has a land area of only 17,364 km². It is roughly the size of Wales or the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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6°00′S, 35°00′E
At 945,087 km², Tanzania is the world′s 31st-largest country after Egypt. It is comparable in size to Nigeria.
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8°00′N, 1°10′E
Togo′s size is just under 57,000 km² (22,000 sq mi). It is slightly smaller than the U.S. state of West Virginia.
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34°00′N, 9°00′E
At 163,610 km² (63,170.2 sq mi) Tunisia is situated along the Mediterranean coast and has more than 1000 miles of coastline.
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15°00′S, 30°00′E
At 752,614 km² (290,566 sq. mi.) Zambia is the 39th-largest country in the world and slightly larger than the U.S. state of Texas.
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1°00′N, 32°00′E
At 236,040 km² (91,136 sq mi) Uganda is the 81st largest country in the world.
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20°00′S, 30°00′E
At 390,757 km² (150,871sq mi), Zimbabwe is the 60th-largest country in the world and is slightly larger than Montana.

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