Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent (the first being Asia). At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of its total land area. With 1.2 billion people as of 2016, it accounts for about 16% of the world's human population.
Animals[]
- Nile Crocodile
- Aardvark
- Honey Badger
- African Bush Elephant
- Black Rhinoceros
- Cheetah
- Caracal
- Grant's Zebra
- African Rock Python
- African Crested Porcupine
- Lion
- Hippopotamus
- Termite
- Veiled Chameleon
- Parson's Chameleon
- Warty Chameleon
- Brown Leaf Chameleon
- Nose-horned Chameleon
- Ring-tailed Lemur
- Aye-aye
- Mole-like Rice Tenrec
- Lesser Long-tailed Shrew Tenrec
- Lowland Streaked Tenrec
- Web-footed Tenrec
- Diademed Sifaka
- Verreaux's Sifaka
- Golden Bamboo Lemur
- Pygmy Mouse Lemur
- Fossa
- Dodo
- Ground Pangolin
- Warthog
- Nile Monitor
- Marabou Stork
- Flame-tipped Jewel
- Aardwolf
- Spotted Hyena
- South African Shelduck
- African Softshell Turtle
- Globe Skimmer
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Spotted Eagle-owl
- Nubian Giraffe
- Martial Eagle
- Greater Honeyguide
- Thomson's Gazelle
- Peregrine Falcon
- White-headed Vulture
- Pioneer
- Band-eyed Drone Fly
- Black Mamba
- Western Honey Bee
- African Giant Snail
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Brown Dog Tick
- Impala
- Greater Kudu
- Secretarybird
- Eastern Chanting Goshawk
- Tardigrade
- Dromedary
- Bat-eared Fox
- Katydids
- Bullfrogs
- Ostrich
- Housefly
- Sperm Whale
- African Collared Dove
- Blue Wildebeest
- Milne-Edwards' Sifaka
- Swallows
- Radiated Tortoise
- Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
- Greater Flamingo
- Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec
- Bicolored Stink Bug
- Ring-tailed Mongoose
- Earthworms
- African Rhinoceros Beetle
- African Wild Dog
- African Wildcat
- Big-headed African Mole Rat
- Desert Pebble Mantis
- Ethiopian Wolf
- Fennec Fox
- Four-toed Hedgehog
- Serval
- Black-backed Jackal
- African Leopard
- Egyptian Cobra
- Sand Cat
- Pel's Fishing Owl
- European Pilchard