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Map of Africa, the planet's 2nd largest continent, includes (53) individual countries. It contains the Nile River, the world's longest, and the massive Sahara Desert, the world's largest. The continent's (highest point) is Mt. Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, 19,341ft (5,895m), while the (lowest point) is Lac' Assal in the small country of Djibouti, 512 ft (156m) below sea level.
The exhibition begins with a series of very beautiful Renaissance maps, showing the tracing of the African coastline in the late fifteenth century, by Portuguese seamen, and with the widely-translated early account of West Africa by the Arab scholar Leo Africanus. Included here are the magnificent facsimile of a fifteenth-century manuscript Ptolemy, purchased in 1983 from the John Shaw Billings Endowment, and Wilhelm Blaeu's famous map of Africa (1617). Also from the Renaissance is another Dutch engraver Theodor de Bry's 1598 map from his famous Voyages, kindly loaned for this exhibit by James P. Barrow, '62.
The name Africa came into Western use through the Romans, who used the name Africa terra — "land of the Afri" (plural, or "Afer" singular) — for the northern part of the continent, as the province of Africa with its capital Carthage map of Africa, corresponding to modern-day Tunisia.
The Afri were a tribe — possibly Berber — who dwelt in North Africa in the Carthage area map of Africa. The origin of Afer may be connected with Phoenician `afar, dust (also found in most other Semitic languages).

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Map Studio Series Road Atlases map of Africa - Format Spiralbound, Scale 1:3 500 000, 96pp, 390 x 280mm. Edition February, 2006. This new atlas replaces the Illustrated Road Atlas of South, Central & East Africa with 46 pages of road maps covering Africa, featuring major routes, secondary roads and tracks, 15 pages of selected tourist areas, 35 pages of street maps of major centres, travel tips, route planner and an index to place names map of Africa.
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,300,000 km? (11,700,000 mi?) including adjacent islands, it covers 5.9% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.3% of the total land area. With map of Africa more than 840,000,000 people (as of 2005) in 61 territories, it accounts for more than 12% of the world's human population.
Our map of Africa will help you plan your trip. Click on the country you'd like see. The map of that particular country will then be displayed and you can drill down to further levels of detail by clicking on the appropriate section of the Africa map.
Southern and East Africa has so much to offer the traveller. We are here to help you plan all aspects of travel in Africa. With our comprehensive guides and accurately detailed map section you'll find all the information necessary to compile a trip worthy of seasoned Africa traveller.
We hope that this Africa map will be a useful tool, and we look forward to helping you plan a holiday of a lifetime.
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