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Africa / A Continental Overview

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...extends beyond 35 degrees north latitude and reaches to almost 35 degrees south. In other words, it goes about as far north as Washington, D.C., and as far south as Uruguay. Its area is more then three times that of the United States and it is the second largest landmass in the world with Eurasia being the first. (Davidson 5) It was home to around 648 million people in 1990 and the population has been increasing at about three percent per year. It has a population density of only 55.5 per square mile; however, this figure can be misleading since much of the land is quite inhospitable. (6) It varies from desert to dense rain forest. Agriculture occupies roughly one third of the land area, but in nearly half the countries less then six percent of the land is cultivated Like its geography, the people and cultures of Africa are quite diverse. The people who live north of the Sahara are a mixture of Arab stock with indigenous peoples such as the Berbers. Countries such...

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