15 interesting Facts about Africa1) The longest river in the world, the Nile (4,132 miles), is located in Africa.
2) Africa has the world's largest desert, the Sahara, which is almost the size of the United States. 3) Victoria Falls is the largest waterfall in Africa; it is 355 feet high and one mile wide. 4) The African continent has the second largest population in the world, at about one billion people. 5) Well over one thousand languages are spoken in Africa. Some estimates put this number closer to two thousand. 6) The African population is approximately 14.72% of the world's population (as of 2009). 7) The worlds largest land animal is the African elephant. 8) The worlds tallest animal, the giraffe, lives in Africa. 9) The fastest land animal in the world, the cheetah, lives in Africa. 10) Africa is home to the worlds largest reptile, the Nile crocodile. 11) The gorilla, which can be found in the continents jungles, is the worlds largest primate. 12) Africa is the second largest continent on earth, approximately 11.7 million square miles. 13) Africa is the hottest continent on earth. 14) Africa covers 6% of the earth's total surface and 20.4% of the total land area. 15) The oldest human remains ever discovered were found in Ethiopia. They are approximately 200,000 years old. |