second largest continent, situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, south of Europe: c. 11,608,000 sq mi (30,065,000 sq km)
Origin of Africa
Classical Latin from Africa (terra), African (land), feminine of Africus from Afer, an AfricanAfrica
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Africa
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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Proper noun
- (historical) A province of the Roman Empire containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
- 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.
Central Africa Eastern Africa
Northern Africa | Southern Africa
Western Africa |
Hyponyms
Origin
See also: ÁfricaFrom Latin Āfrica.
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Sentence Examples
- It is as much Asia or Africa as New England.
- I've never been to Europe, or Africa, or anywhere yet.
- Crops native to Africa are not the staples of the world.
- Although in late Tertiary times widely spread over southern Europe and India, giraffes are now confined to Africa south of the Sahara.
- Not improbably this country was either "Gondwana-land," connecting Mesozoic India with Africa, or perhaps Africa itself.
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