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Africa is the world's second-largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.3 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area. With 1.3 billion people as of 2018, it accounts for about 16% of the world's human population. Wikipedia

Population: 1.216 billion (2016) Trending

Area: 30.37 million km²

Largest city: Lagos

Africa is a continent with a very high linguistic diversity, there are an estimated 1500-2000 African languages. gathering approximately 140 languages with some eleven million speakers scattered in Central and Eastern Africa.