Africa, the world's second most largest and most populous continent, but even though it has one of the most land area on Earth, still, it the world's most poorest continent and also considered as the most underdeveloped. The main reason for Africa's poverty is corruption. Slavery is also chronic in Africa before, it was not until the 1930s that slavery in Africa was almost totally eliminated. Some of the wonders of Africa are the Pyramids of Egypt, Serengeti Migration, Ngorongoro Crater, Victoria Falls and Karnak Temple. Now for this top ten article I gathered various information from different websites regarding the top 10 facts about Africa. Have some time and read the facts below.TOP : 10
Africa Fact : It is the second largest and populous continent in the world.
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| The beauty of Africa - Mkambati Nature Reserve |
TOP : 9
Africa Fact : Africa comprises 20.4% of Earth's total land area.
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| African continent on the globe |
TOP : 8
Africa Fact : Africa hosts for 15% of the people's world population.
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| African population |
TOP : 7
Africa Fact : 50% of Africans are only 19 years of age and below.
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| Young population of Africa - 50% |
TOP : 6
Africa Fact : Algeria is the largest country in Africa having the total area of 2,381,741 km2.
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| Constantine, Algeria, Africa |
TOP : 5
Africa Fact : It is the oldest inhabited place on Earth accounted by paleoanthropologists. During the 20th century many fossils have been discovered by the anthropologists dating back as early as 7 million years ago.
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| Australopithecus sediba skull found in the remnants of an underground cave network in South Africa. |
TOP : 4
Africa Fact : Africa hosts one of the world's hottest desert, the Saraha.
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| The Sahara Desert |
TOP : 3
Africa Fact : Africa the world's poorest and underdeveloped continent.
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| African people experiencing poverty |
TOP : 2
Africa Fact : UNESCO estimated around 2000 languages are spoken in Africa.
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| African language families |
TOP : 1
Africa Fact : Egypt's Great Pyramid or Giza (also found in Africa), for 4,000 years, became the worlds tallest structure.
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| Egypt's Great Pyramid or Giza |
Data Sources :
- www.en.wikipedia.org
- www.autocww.colorado.edu/~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/AfricanHistory/SlaveryInAfrica.html
- www.hillmanwonders.com/top_10_africa_wonders/top_10_africa_wonders.htm
- www.climateandcapitalism.com/2008/09/05/africa-why-the-richest-continent-is-also-the-poorest
- www.edition.cnn.com/2013/12/13/opinion/opinion-africa-survey-mandela-ogunlesi
- www.news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/100408-fossils-australopithecus-sediba-missing-link-new-species-human/
Photos Sources :
- www.junkinside.com
- www.geographicguide.com
- www.blogs.cfr.org
- copyright, getty images
- www.hqwallbase.com
- www.news.nationalgeographic.com
- www.hdwallcomp.com
- www.gbtimes.com
- www.en.wikipedia.org
- www.lashwallpapers.com
Please be noted that the top 10 that we are including here in our blog are all unofficial rankings unless otherwise noted. Most of the top ten lists are based on Google search results and collected mainly from different blogs and websites around the internet world.
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