Áfríkà

Áfríkà ni orile keji titobijulo ati toni awon eniyan julo lagbaye leyin Asia. Ni bi 30.2 egbegberun km² (11.7 million sq mi) lapapo mo awon erekusu to sunmo, ile re je 6% apapo gbogbo oju Aye ati 20.4% gbogbo ile Aye.^[2] Pelu egbegberunkeji kan eniyan (ni 2009, e wo tabili) ni awon agbegbe 61, eyi je bi 14.72% gbogbo iye eniyan Agbaye. Ni ariwa re ni Okun Mediterraneani wa, si ariwailaorun re ni Ilaodo Suez ati Okun Pupa wa legbe Sinai Peninsula, si guusuilaorun re ni Okun India, ati si iwoorun re ni Okun Atlantiki wa. Afrika ni orile-ede 54 lapapo mo Madagascar, opolopo erekusu ati orile-ede Olominira Sahrawi Arabu Toseluaralu, to je omo egbe Isokan Afrika botilejepe Morocco lodi si eyi.

Áfríkà

Ààlà	30,221,532 km2 (11,668,598.7 sq mi)
Olùgbé	1,000,010,000[1] (2005, 2nd)
Ìṣúpọ̀ olùgbé	30.51 km2 (about 80/sq mi)
Demonym	African
Àwọn orílẹ̀-èdè	53 (List of countries)
Dependencies	{{{1}}} Mayotte Réunion Canary Islands Ceuta Madeira Islands Melilla Saint Helena
Àwọn èdè	List of languages
Time Zones	UTC-1 to UTC+4
Àwọn ìlú tótóbijùlọ	List of cities

Afrika, agaga gbongan apailaorun Afrika, je gbigba lopolopo latowo awon awujo onisayensi pe ibe ni ibi ti awon eniyan ti bere ati Hominidae clade (great apes), gege bi o se han pelu iwari awon hominids pipejulo ati awon babanla won, ati awon ti won wa leyin won ti won peju bi odun legbegberun meje seyin – lapapomo Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Australopithecus africanus, A. afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster – pelu eyi to pejulo ninu won Homo sapiens (eniyan odeoni) ti o je wiwari ni Ethiopia to je odun bi 200,000 seyin.^[3]

Afrika bo ibugedemeji mole, o si ni orisirisi awon agbegbe ojuojo; o je orile kan soso to gun lati agbegbe apaariwa aloworo de apaguusu alaworo.^[4]

Orisun itumo oro

Afri ni oruko awon eniyan ti won gbe ni Ariwa Afrika leba Carthage. Oruko awon wonyi je siso mo "afar" ti awon Finiki, to tumosi "eruku", sugbon ero 1981 kan^[5] ti so pe o wa lati oro ede Berber ifri tabi Ifran totumosi "cave", in reference to cave dwellers.^[6] Afrika tabi Ifri tabi Afer^[6] ni oruko Banu Ifran lati Algeria ati Tripolitania (Eya Berber ti Yafran).^[7]

Labe ijoba awon Ara Romu, Carthage di oluilu Igberiko Afrika, to tun je kikomo apa eba odo Libya oni. "-ka" ("ca") to je ilemeyin Afrika je awon Ara Romu to tokasi "orile-ede tabi ile".^[8] Bakanna, ile-oba Musulumi ayeijoun Ifriqiya to wa leyin, ti a mo loni bi Tunisia, na tun lo iru oruko yi.

Awon orisun itumo miran ti won ti da laba bi orisun oruko ijoun "Afrika":

• omo Ju olukoitan ni orundun 1st Flavius Josephus (Ant. 1.15) so pe o je sisoloruko fun Epher, omokunrin omoomo Abraham gege bi Gen. 25:4, ti awon omomo re, bo se so, pe won bori Libya.
• oro Latin aprica ("ihan orun"; "sunny") ti Isidore of Seville menu ba ninu Etymologiae XIV.5.2.
• oro Griiki aphrike (Αφρική), to tumosi "aini otutu." Olukoitan Leo Africanus (1488–1554) lo damoran yi, to daba oro Griiki phrike (φρίκη, to tumosi "otutu ati eru"), lapapo mo "a-", lati tumosi "ile ti ko ni otutu ati eru.
• Massey, ni 1881, mu orisun itumo kan wa lati oro Egypti af-rui-ka, "di dori ko ojuona Ka." Ka tokasi ibiomo. Nipa eyi Afrika je fun awon Ara Egypti, "ile ibimo."^[9]

Itan

Itan atijo

Ni ibere Igba Mesosoik, Afrika je jijapo mo awon orile Aye yioku gege bi Pangea.^[10] Afrika pin awon fauna kanna ti orilegbangba yi ti o je sisori lowo awon theropods, prosauropods ati ornithischians akokolo nigbati igba Trias wa sopin.^[10] Awon idokuta opin je wiwari kakiri Africa, sugbon won wopo ni guusu ju ariwa lo.^[10] Ila to ya igba Triassic soto si Jurassic lo falasi ibere awon isele iparun to ni ip ni lagbaye, botilejepe strata Afrika igba yi ko ti je gbigbewo daada.^[10]

Awon ipele ile igba Ibere Jurassik pinkiri lona kanna bi ti isun Late Triassic, with more common outcrops in the south and less common fossil beds which are predominated by tracks to the north.^[10] As the Jurassic proceeded, larger and more iconic groups of dinosaurs like sauropods and ornithopods proliferated in Africa.^[10] Middle Jurassic strata are neither well represented nor well studied in Africa.^[10] Late Jurassic strata are also poorly represented apart from the spectacular Tendaguru fauna in Tanzania.^[10] The Late Jurassic life of Tendaguru is very similar to that found in western North America's Morrison Formation.^[10]

Orundun 9k–18k

Afrika ki o to di ibialamusin o se e se ki o ni orisirisi orile-ede otooto to ju 10,000 lo ati asejoba^[11] to ni orisirisi ilana ati agbajo oloselu. Ninu awon wonyi ni idipo ebi kekere awon asode bi awon San ni apaguusu Afrika; titobi, awon adipo adimule bi awon idipo ibatan ebi awon elede Bantu ni apaarin ati apaguusu Afrika, awon adipo ibatan adimule gidigidi ni Ibi Iwo Ori Afrika, awon ileoba Saheli titobi, ati awon ilu-orilejoba ati awon ileoba aladawa bi ti awon Yoruba ni Iwoorun Afrika, ati awon ilu oja etiodo awon Swahili ni Ilaorun Afrika.

Nigba to fi di orundun 9k SK orisirisi awon orilejoba obairanderan, ti awon orilejoba Hausa akoko wa ninu won, ti san kakiri saffana abe-sahara lati awon agbegbe apaiwoorun de ibiarin Sudan. Awon to lagbarajulo larin awon orilejoba wonyi ni Ghana, Gao, ati Kanem-Bornu Empire. Agbara Ghana dinku ni orundun 11k sugbon Ileobaluaye Mali ropo re, eyi lo si di opo gbogbo apaiwoorun Afrika mu ni orundun 13k. Kanem gba esin Imale ni orundun 11k. Be sini ni awon agbegbe igbo etiodo Iwoorun Afrika, awon ileoba alominira jadide laini ipa kankan latodo ariwa Musulumi.

Ashanti yam ceremony, 19th century by Thomas E. Bowdich

Ife, to je akoko larin awon ilu-orilejoba tabi ileoba Yoruba, sedasile ijoba labe oba, ton unje Ooni. Ife je ibi pataki esin ati asa ni Afrika, ati fun asa ibile ere gbigbe. Iru ifijuwe ijoba Ile-Ife je gbigbamulo ni Oyo, nibiti awon oba, ti won unje Alaafin ti figba kan joba lori opo iye iluorilejoba ati ileoba Yoruba miran ati ti awon ti won ko je Yoruba, Ileoba Dahomey awon Fon je ibi ti won ko so ede Yoruba labe ijoba Oyo.

Awon Almoraffidi, je obairanderan Beriberi lati Sahara ti won fon kiri ariwaapaiwoorun Afrika ati peninsula Iberian nigba orundun 11k.^[12] Banu Hilal ati Banu Ma'qil je akopo aon eya Arab Bedouin lati Arabian peninsula ti on kolo si iwoorun lati Egypt larin orundun 11k ati 13k. Ikoreokere fa idapo awon Arabu ati Beriberi, nibi ti awon ara ile ti di Arabu,^[13] be sini asa Arabu gba apilese asa ibile ibe, labe isokan Islam.^[14]

Awon agbegbe

Àwọn Àyọkà olórí: Regions of Africa àti List of African countries and territories

Àwọn orílẹ̀-èdè tí wọ́n wà ní ìpele yí ni wọ́n wà lábẹ́ àtò scheme for geographic subregions tí àjọ United Nations, àti data tí ó rọ̀ mọ́ ìtọ́ka sí fún àpilẹ̀kọ. Where they differ, provisos are clearly indicated.

Regions of Africa:   Northern Africa   Western Africa   Middle Africa   Eastern Africa   Southern Africa

Physical map of Africa

Satellite photo of Africa

Political map of Africa

Orúkọ agbègbè[15] àti ilẹ̀, pẹ̀lú asìá	Ààlà (km²)	Alábùgbé (2009 est) except where noted	Ìṣúpọ̀ (per km²)	Olúìlú
Eastern Africa:	6,384,904	316,053,651	49.5
Burundi	27,830	8,988,091[16]	322.9	Bujumbura
Comoros	2,170	752,438[16]	346.7	Moroni
Djibouti	23,000	516,055[16]	22.4	Djibouti
Eritrea	121,320	5,647,168[16]	46.5	Asmara
Ethiopia	1,127,127	85,237,338[16]	75.6	Addis Ababa
Kenya	582,650	39,002,772[16]	66.0	Nairobi
Madagascar	587,040	20,653,556[16]	35.1	Antananarivo
Malawi	118,480	14,268,711[16]	120.4	Lilongwe
Mauritius	2,040	1,284,264[16]	629.5	Port Louis
Mayotte (France)	374	223,765[16]	489.7	Mamoudzou
Mozambique	801,590	21,669,278[16]	27.0	Maputo
Réunion (France)	2,512	743,981(2002)	296.2	Saint-Denis
Rwanda	26,338	10,473,282[16]	397.6	Kigali
Seychelles	455	87,476[16]	192.2	Victoria
Somalia	637,657	9,832,017[16]	15.4	Mogadishu
Tanzania	945,087	41,048,532[16]	43.3	Dodoma
Uganda	236,040	32,369,558[16]	137.1	Kampala
Zambia	752,614	11,862,740[16]	15.7	Lusaka
Middle Africa:	6,613,253	121,585,754	18.4
Angola	1,246,700	12,799,293[16]	10.3	Luanda
Cameroon	475,440	18,879,301[16]	39.7	Yaoundé
Central African Republic	622,984	4,511,488[16]	7.2	Bangui
Chad	1,284,000	10,329,208[16]	8.0	N'Djamena
Congo	342,000	4,012,809[16]	11.7	Brazzaville
Democratic Republic of the Congo	2,345,410	68,692,542[16]	29.2	Kinshasa
Equatorial Guinea	28,051	633,441[16]	22.6	Malabo
Gabon	267,667	1,514,993[16]	5.6	Libreville
São Tomé and Príncipe	1,001	212,679[16]	212.4	São Tomé
Northern Africa:	8,533,021	211,087,622	24.7
Algeria	2,381,740	34,178,188[16]	14.3	Algiers
Egypt[17]	1,001,450	83,082,869[16] total, Asia 1.4m	82.9	Cairo
Libya	1,759,540	6,310,434[16]	3.6	Tripoli
Morocco	446,550	34,859,364[16]	78.0	Rabat
Sudan	2,505,810	41,087,825[16]	16.4	Khartoum
Tunisia	163,610	10,486,339[16]	64.1	Tunis
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[18]	266,000	405,210[16]	1.5	El Aaiún
Spanish and Portuguese territories in Northern Africa:
Canary Islands (Spain)[19]	7,492	1,694,477(2001)	226.2	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Ceuta (Spain)[20]	20	71,505(2001)	3,575.2	—
Madeira Islands (Portugal)[21]	797	245,000(2001)	307.4	Funchal
Melilla (Spain)[22]	12	66,411(2001)	5,534.2	—
Southern Africa:	2,693,418	56,406,762	20.9
Botswana	600,370	1,990,876[16]	3.3	Gaborone
Lesotho	30,355	2,130,819[16]	70.2	Maseru
Zimbabwe	390,580	11,392,629[16]	29.1	Harare
Namibia	825,418	2,108,665[16]	2.6	Windhoek
South Africa	1,219,912	49,052,489[16]	40.2	Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Pretoria[23]
Swaziland	17,363	1,123,913[16]	64.7	Mbabane
Western Africa:	6,144,013	296,186,492	48.2
Benin	112,620	8,791,832[16]	78.0	Porto-Novo
Burkina Faso	274,200	15,746,232[16]	57.4	Ouagadougou
Cape Verde	4,033	429,474[16]	107.3	Praia
Côte d'Ivoire	322,460	20,617,068[16]	63.9	Abidjan,[24] Yamoussoukro
Gambia	11,300	1,782,893[16]	157.7	Banjul
Ghana	239,460	23,832,495[16]	99.5	Accra
Guinea	245,857	10,057,975[16]	40.9	Conakry
Guinea-Bissau	36,120	1,533,964[16]	42.5	Bissau
Liberia	111,370	3,441,790[16]	30.9	Monrovia
Mali	1,240,000	12,666,987[16]	10.2	Bamako
Mauritania	1,030,700	3,129,486[16]	3.0	Nouakchott
Niger	1,267,000	15,306,252[16]	12.1	Niamey
Nigeria	923,768	149,229,090[16]	161.5	Abuja
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK)	410	7,637[16]	14.4	Jamestown
Senegal	196,190	13,711,597[16]	69.9	Dakar
Sierra Leone	71,740	6,440,053[16]	89.9	Freetown
Togo	56,785	6,019,877[16]	106.0	Lomé
Africa Total	30,368,609	1,001,320,281	33.0

Itokasi

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15. Continental regions as per UN categorisations/map.
    
16. USCensusBureau:Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2009
17. Egypt is generally considered a transcontinental country in Northern Africa (UN region) and Western Asia; population and area figures are for African portion only, west of the Suez Canal.
    
18. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is recognized as a sovereign state by the African Union, however, Morocco claims the entirety of the country as Morocco's own Southern Provinces, and has occupied most of its territory since it declared its independence from Spain in 1976. Morrocco's occupation and annexation of this territory has not been recognized internationally.
    
19. The Spanish Canary Islands, of which Las Palmas de Gran Canaria are Santa Cruz de Tenerife are co-capitals, are often considered part of Northern Africa due to their relative proximity to Morocco and Western Sahara; population and area figures are for 2001.
    
20. The Spanish exclave of Ceuta is surrounded on land by Morocco in Northern Africa; population and area figures are for 2001.
    
21. The Portuguese Madeira Islands are often considered part of Northern Africa due to their relative proximity to Morocco; population and area figures are for 2001.
    
22. The Spanish exclave of Melilla is surrounded on land by Morocco in Northern Africa; population and area figures are for 2001.
    
23. Bloemfontein is the judicial capital of South Africa, while Cape Town is its legislative seat, and Pretoria is the country's administrative seat.
    
24. Yamoussoukro is the official capital of Côte d'Ivoire, while Abidjan is the de facto seat.