Africa Facts
- Africa is the second largest continent in the world.
- 80% of the land in between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
- The Sahara dessert is the most imoirtant geographic feature of the country
- 40% of Africa's land is dessert
- Africa has many river systems but they do not let navigation into the exterior because of waterfalls and rapids.
- many of the African countries have fought and still fight civil wars to try to gain dominance