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Category:Countries in Africa

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Summary

Category:Countries in Africa is a Wikimedia category[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Category:Countries in Africa's instance of is recorded as Wikimedia category[3].
  • Category:Countries in Africa's category's main topic is recorded as list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa[4].
  • Category:Countries in Africa's Commons category is recorded as Countries of Africa[5].
  • Category:Countries in Africa's category combines topics is recorded as Africa[6].
  • Category:Countries in Africa's category combines topics is recorded as country[7].
  • Category:Countries in Africa's category combines topics is recorded as state[8].
  • Category:Countries in Africa's list related to category is recorded as list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa[9].
  • Category:Countries in Africa's category populated by is recorded as Template:Countries of Africa[10].

Why It Matters

Category:Countries in Africa has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2] It is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

country

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12d ago · MsynBot bot · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ab', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ang', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'ay', 'a
    Sitelink count → 241
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ normalize sitelink for magwiki by using the canonical namespace prefix #magwiki #msynbotTask8"
  2. 19w ago · Escarbot bot · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    List related to category → list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa
    Category's main topic → list of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa
    Category populated by → Template:Countries of Africa
    Instance of → Wikimedia category
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||de-ch, zh-cn, en-gb, pt-br, tg-latn, zh-tw, zh-hant, zh-mo, tt-cyrl, zh-hans, de-at, zh-my, en-ca, tg-cyrl, tt-latn, zh-sg, zh-hk */"
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