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African people and language

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 [...]

African origin of the name

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 [...]

Africa Overview

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 [...]

Asian Culture

The majority of the Asian region, many ethnic and cultural diversity is very strong, very different, almost no single “Asian culture.”
All the world religions were born in Asia, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and so on. In the 18th century, before the start of the industrial revolution, the world’s economic center in Asia, so [...]

Asian Politics

Regional cooperation
Very complex system of government in Asia, the world now includes almost all forms of governmental structures, but also the world’s hot spots. Regional cooperation in Asia is in the ascendant, and now the most promising regional cooperation in areas in Southeast Asia, ASEAN has 10 member countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, [...]

Asian history

Asian history and culture are very ancient. The world’s four ancient civilizations in China, India and Babylon are located in Asia. Asia’s economic and cultural levels have long-term in the leading position in the world, China’s four great inventions, the Indians found “0″, invented Arabic numerals, and so on, many scientific inventions have made great [...]

Asian Religions

Asia is the world’s three major religions namely Buddhism, the birthplace of Islam and Christianity. Religion is an important form of civilization, from the entire history of human society, Asia is the true center of world civilization. In addition to Judaism, Hinduism and Sikhism, Taoism, Confucianism and other religions.
(1) the formation of Buddhism in the [...]

Geographical regions in Asia

East Asia
Refers to East Asia. Including China, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia and Japan. Area of about 11.7 million square kilometers. More than 1.3 billion population. Lying west to east in four steps. Southwest China, known as the “roof” of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with an average elevation of 4,000 meters. The southeast part of the [...]

Asian Economy

In ancient times, Asian people to have created a splendid culture. Well-established well-developed agriculture and handicrafts, said there are many scientific inventions, paper making, gunpowder, the compass, the birthplace of printing, the development of the world economy has made a great contribution.
After the 16th century, Western colonialism and imperialism have invaded many countries and regions [...]

Asia’s natural resources

Mineral resources: minerals in Asia and more, large reserves, mainly oil, coal, iron, tin, tungsten, antimony, copper, lead, zinc, manganese, nickel, molybdenum, magnesium, chromium, gold, silver, salt, sulfur, gems and so on. Oil, magnesium, iron, tin and other reserves tops in every continent first.

Forests and grasslands: the world’s total forest area of about 13% of [...]