Africa

(afri kə)

second largest continent, situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, south of Europe: c. 11,700,000 sq mi (30,303,000 sq km); pop. c. 705,000,000

Origin: L < Africa (terra), African (land), fem. of Africus < Afer, an African

See Africa in American Heritage Dictionary 4

The second-largest continent, connected to Asia by the Isthmus of Suez and lying between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian oceans.

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