AFRICA🌍 FACTS ZONE ON STEEMIT: INTRODUCTORY POST

Africa is the most populous and the only black continent. Despite the delayed development in the continent, Africa is an interesting continent to visit and in it abounds lots of talents. There are lots of known and interesting information but there are much more unknown facts about Africa that are worth mentioning.
AFRICA FACTS ZONE have decided to bring exclusive contents all round Africa including geography facts, fun facts, political facts, entertainment facts, business facts, sport facts, travel facts etc. to steemit.com that will surely interest you all!

We want to use this introductory post to bring you Ten (10) Interesting and probably unknown facts from Africa🌍!

1. Africa’s Lake Victoria is One of The Wonders of The World
   
   One first surprising fact about Africa is that the continent is blessed with many natural wonders and amazing tourist destinations of which the Lake Victoria is one of them. It forms the largest lake in Africa and the second-largest freshwater lake in the world, covering an area of 26,830 square miles (69,490 square kilometers) but it also contains the largest sheet of falling water in the world in terms of area.

2. Nile is the Longest River in The World
   
   The Nile is the longest river in the world measuring about 6,670 km (4,160 miles) in length although the Nile is usually associated with Egypt, only 22% of the Nile’s course runs through Egypt the rest flows through Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya,Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Sudan. The banks of river Nile saw the origin of the oldest civilizations in the world.

3. Africa is Home To The Largest Known Mammal
   
   The world’s largest living land animal, the African elephant, which can weigh between 6 and 7 tons is found in Africa. African Male elephants stand 3.2–4.0 m (10–13 ft) tall at the shoulder while their female counterparts stand 2.2–2.6 m (7–9 ft) tall. African elephants are mostly found in Eastern, Southern and West Africa.

4. Africa Makes up 15% of The World’s Population and origin To A Quarter of Languages
   
   Africa makes up about 15% of the world’s population, providing home to about 1 billion people. Because of the population explosion and the low life expectancy rate in Africa, a large percentage of Africa’s population are less than 30 years old. The continent’s diversity fully supports over 1,500 different languages which represent a quarter of the world’s languages which are spoken only in Africa.

5. Africa’s Sahara is the World’s Largest Desert
   
   The world’s largest non-polar desert, the Sahara, is located in the northern part of Africa. The Sahara has a surface area of 9 million square kilometers (3.5 million square miles), and it stands as the largest non-polar desert in the world.

6. Africa is The Home of the Human Species
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   Another interesting fact about Africa is that according to information provided by the Human Origins, early humans first migrated out of Africa into Asia probably 1.8 million years ago. They entered Europe somewhat later, between 1.5 million and 1 million years. Species of modern humans populated many parts of the world much later.

7. The Lowest Point in Africa is Lake Assal
   
   The lowest point in Africa is Lake Assal which is located in central-eastern Djibouti at the western end of Gulf of Tadjoura in the Tadjoura Region, touching Dikhil Region, at the top of the Great Rift Valley. The crater lake lies 155 meters below sea level. This water body also takes the third position for lowest land depression on Earth following the Dead Sea and Sea of Galilee.

8. Hippos Kill More People in Africa Than Lion and Crocodile
   
   The African hippopotamus is responsible for more human deaths in Africa than any other large animal. Male hippos actively defend their territories which often times run alongside the river banks. Female hippos are quite protective and aggressive if they anticipate any form of threats towards their babies, which would normally stay in the water while the mother hippo feeds on the river banks.

9. Africa Was Once Joined To Other Continents
   
   Long before humans were around (the early Mesozoic Era), Africa was joined to the other continents in a massive continent called Pangaea. Over millions of years this huge continent broke apart shaping the world landscape as we know it today in what has been referred to the continental drift. This was at first a speculation and was first put proposed by Abraham Ortelius in 1596. Later on, the concept was independently developed in 1912 by Alfred Wegener and the theory of continental drift was superseded by the theory of plate tectonics, which builds upon the previous continental drift and better explains the former concept.

10. Second Largest Continent
    
    The last obvious fact in this post is that Africa is the second largest continent in the world. The second largest in both land mass and population. It covers about a fifth of the earth’s total land area. The land mass is about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) and this includes adjacent islands, it covers six percent of the Earth’s total surface area.

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