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Summary

Africa is a continent[1]. Africa draws 100,429 Wikipedia views per month (continent category, ranking #3 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: geographic location[3], region[4]
  • Shares border with: Eurasia[5], Asia[6]
  • Part of: Ostfeste[7], Earth[8], Afro-Eurasia[9], Afro-Asia[10]
  • Commons category: Africa[11]
  • Located in time zone: UTC−01:00[12], UTC±00:00[13], UTC+01:00[14], UTC+02:00[15], UTC+03:00[16], UTC+04:00[17]
  • Has part(s): North Africa[18], Central Africa[19], West Africa[20], Southern Africa[21], East Africa[22]
  • Highest point: Mount Kibo[23]
  • Located in/on physical feature: Northern Hemisphere[24], Southern Hemisphere[25]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Africa[26], Q32816044[27]
  • Commons gallery: Africa[28]
  • Population: 1,100,000,000[29], 200,000,000[30], 1,200,000,000[31], 1,275,920,972[32], 1,549,862,036[33]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Africa[34]
  • Depicted by: Study with Allegories of Europe and Africa[35]
  • Described by source: The Catholic Encyclopedia[36], The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought[37], Otto's encyclopedia[38], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[39], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[40], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[41], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[42], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[43], Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia[44], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[45], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[46], New International Encyclopedia[47], The New Student's Reference Work[48]

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Africa include African Corps[49], an army corps[50], in Russia[51], founded in 2023[52], headquartered in Ouagadougou[53]; Afroasiatic[54], a language family[55], founded in -7000[56]; Republic of New Afrika[57], a social movement[58], in United States[59], founded in 1968[60]; African Plate[61], a tectonic plate[62]; MV Africa Mercy[63], a hospital ship[64]; Afrikanisches Viertel[65], a neighborhood[66], in Germany[67]; galinha à Africana[68]; and 1193 Africa[69], an asteroid[70].

Why It Matters

Africa has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[71] Africa is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[72]

Entities named for Africa include African Corps[49], an army corps[50], in Russia[51], founded in 2023[52], headquartered in Ouagadougou[53]; Afroasiatic[54], a language family[55], founded in -7000[56]; Republic of New Afrika[57], a social movement[58], in United States[59], founded in 1968[60]; African Plate[61], a tectonic plate[62]; MV Africa Mercy[63], a hospital ship[64]; and Afrikanisches Viertel[65], a neighborhood[66], in Germany[67].

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Class ancestry

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [71] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [72] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Sadads · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14968 → TER Rhône-Alpes
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  2. 22d ago · CameoJewel · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'abstract', 'ace', 'ady', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ann', 'anp', '
    Fandom article id → x-menevolution:Africa, naturerules1:Africa, marvel:Africa
    Sitelink count → 375
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  3. 29d ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    J-global id → 200906021532974767
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  4. 4w ago · ならちゃん · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  5. 4w ago · Yupik · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Postimees topic id → 3417
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  6. 7w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Basisklassifikation → 74.23
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  7. 11w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-08-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14688 → 350
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  8. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Hofuf
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  9. 12w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 882
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish encyclopedia id: 882, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167474073|AFRICA (#167474073)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #mi"
  10. 15w ago · ZI Jony · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14611 → 27313
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    P14586 → 77218
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  12. 16w ago · Rémi sim · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fallout wiki id → Africa
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Fallout wiki id: Africa, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/294243337|Africa (#294243337)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8063|Fallout Wiki articles]] #"
  13. 18w ago · LadyData · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Locations/Africa
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Locations/Africa, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/293239379|Africa (#293239379)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7990|Giant Bomb Wiki"
  14. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → g0002282-Afrika
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  15. 21w ago · Trivialist · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → africa
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: africa, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289915753|africa (#289915753)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  16. 22w ago · Yupik · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bibliothèque nationale de france id → 153236036, 119308418
    Anarâš aavis topic id → afrik
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  17. 22w ago · Lyonrail · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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