Map of Africa Region and Country

Map of Africa Region and Country - Africa, second largest continent of the planet's surface and the second most populous continent, and in the Western Sahara, a Member State of the African Union, whose statehood is contested by Morocco. Please note that southern Sudan is the continent's newest country.

With a little more than a billion people there are currently just over 14% of the world's population. It also includes the Nile system, the world's longest, and the massive Sahara Desert, the largest in the world.

Africa is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the Sinai Peninsula in the northeast, the Indian Ocean in the east and southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean in the west.