Africa Definition
ăfrĭ-kə
proper name
Second largest continent, situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, south of Europe: c. 11,608,000 sq mi (30,065,000 sq km)
Webster's New World
pronoun
The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica. It holds the following countries.
The Maghreb and the Subsahara are regions of Africa with different geographies.
Wiktionary
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Wiktionary
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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Origin of Africa
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From Latin Āfrica.
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