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Overall, the continent’s soil can be divided into 5 or 6 categories. The quality of which desert soil, chestnut soil edge of the desert type of brown soil, chernozem-like soils (dark, rich soil humus and carbonate), which can be found in the soil from the Sudan Xi to the Niger River to the middle bend [...]
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Mainly by the Nile River in Africa (Equatorial north) and the Congo River (Central Africa) dominated basin, a total of irrigation in Africa nearly 1 / 4 of the land area. Between two major rivers in the south of the boundary between a large freshwater lake. Covered the islands of Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest [...]
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Location
East Africa is located in the southwest of the Eastern Hemisphere, north and south across the equator, stretching from north-western parts of the Western Hemisphere. East near the Indian Ocean, west Atlantic, north across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean and across Europe, Dongbei Yu to narrow the Red Sea and the Suez Canal [...]
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Causes
From the origin point of view, it is more than ten million before breaking the crust formed by a dramatic fall of the fault zone, seafloor spreading — according to the theory of plate tectonics, that the world is the fault zone where land mass split, the East African Rift Valley is the upwelling of [...]
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Natural Resources
Africa’s rich mineral resources, not only variety, but also large reserves. Currently known oil, copper, gold, diamond, bauxite, phosphate, niobium and cobalt reserves in the world, a large proportion of both. Oil is mainly distributed in North Africa and the Atlantic Coast States, Libya, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria is Africa’s major oil producer and exporter. [...]
Small islands along the coast of Africa, most of them very small, the area of the island only 2% of the continent-wide area. South Mainland North width narrow, like a scalene triangle, flat coast, less the Gulf and Peninsula. A plateau throughout the continent, with an average elevation of 750 meters. Largely on the Congo [...]
Language
African languages belong to four major languages:
Semitic languages (including 240 languages, 285 million people use) Nilo – Saharan languages (including more than 100 languages, 3,000 million people, mainly in Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, Uganda, northern Tanzania and other regions) Niger – Congo language (one of the world’s largest language family, including hundreds of multi-lingual, distributed [...]
Africa is “A non-american continent” is abbreviated
English: Africa, French: Afrique, Puwen Africana
For Africa the origin of the word, spread a lot of interesting legend:
A legend in ancient times there was also the name of Africus chiefs, invaded North Africa in 2000 BC, where he built a city named Afrikyah, then people put this large place [...]
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Africa’s full name is A non-american continent, meaning where the sun was hot.
Africa’s continent-wide area of desert area of about 1 / 3, the largest desert Island. Among them, the Sahara is the world’s largest desert. East Africa there is the world’s largest rift. Of course, in addition to the desert, Africa also has lush [...]
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Oct.20,2010