Africa Travel Guide

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Africa Travel Guide

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Welcome to Africa Travels Guide your complete guide for Africa. When planning a vacation or trip to Africa, Africa Travels Guide is your customized practical guide to travel in Africa. Find information on tourist attractions, accommodations, events, travel tips and so much more to your own personal guide.


About Africa

If you are looking for background information on Africa, we have you covered. Throughout this website, you will find extensive Africa Facts and background information regarding a beloved country that needs much more attention. If you are at all interested in knowing about Africa or if you need to research facts on Africa for a report, you will definitely find the information you need here.

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers six percent of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4 percent of the total land area. With 1.0 billion people (as of 2009, see table), it accounts for about 15% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagoes. It has 54 fully recognized sovereign states ("countries"), 9 territories and three de facto states with limited recognition.

Africa, particularly central Eastern Africa, is widely accepted as the origin of humans and the Hominidae clade (great apes), as evidenced by the discovery of the earliest hominids and their ancestors, as well as later ones that have been dated to around seven million years ago – including Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster – with the earliest Homo sapiens (modern human) found in Ethiopia being dated to circa 200,000 years ago. Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas; it is the only continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones. The African expected economic growth rate is at about 5.0% for 2010 and 5.5% in 2011.

Regions of Africa: Northern Africa, Western Africa, Central Africa, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa

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Languages of Africa : There are over 2100 and by some counts over 3000 languages spoken natively in Africa in several major language families:

Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) spread throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahel Nilo-Saharan is centered on Sudan and Chad (disputed validity) Niger–Congo (Bantu) covers West, Central, and Southeast Africa Khoe is concentrated in the deserts of Namibia and Botswana Austronesian on Madagascar. Indo-European on the southern tip of the continent.

There are several other small families and language isolates, as well as obscure languages that have yet to be classified. In addition, Africa has a wide variety of sign languages, many of which are language isolates.

Several African languages are whistled or drummed to communicate over long distances.

About a hundred of the languages of Africa are widely used for inter-ethnic communication. Arabic, Berber, Amharic, Somali, Oromo, Swahili, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba are spoken by tens of millions of people. If clusters of up to a hundred similar languages are counted together, twelve are spoken by 75 percent, and fifteen by 85 percent, of Africans as a first or additional language.

Planning a Trip to Africa – Tourist Locations If you are thinking about traveling to Africa, there are some things you will want to know beforehand. Taking trips to Africa should be researched well before going. When it comes to planning your trip to Africa, you may be wondering what some of the best places to visit are. Worry no more, my friend. Below you will find three of the best places to visit in Africa. Finding the place you want to go first will help you setup and plan the rest of your vacation much easier. Here are some Africa facts about the best places to travel in Africa.
Tia Szymansky
Tia Szymansky

Having Spent 8 Years Travelling, I have decided to Live in Africa for the past 2 years. Love every moment of it and sharing my best guides and tips if you plan on travelling here. Africa is always oversighted due to media and I believe with my blog, I can help revive the African Travel and Tourism Industry and invite you all here for a fantastic time :)

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