Where can I find Africa on the globe?
Africa is the handiest continent straddling the tropic of Cancer, the equator and the tropic of Capricorn. It lies to the south of Europe and the Mediterranean Sea and to the west of Asia, past the Red Sea. To its west is the Atlantic Ocean and to its east is the Indian Ocean. It is an extended continent, stretching 8,000 kilometres (5,000 miles) from the top of Tunisia withinside the north to its maximum southern factor in South Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. It is widest on the centre, with 7,four hundred kilometres (4,six hundred miles) between its maximum japanese factor in Somalia and its western coast. Africa’s shoreline is 26,000 kilometres (16,one hundred miles) long.
