Africa size comparison
30,200,000 km2 / 11,657,200 mile2
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. 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% of its land area. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population.
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0.46 times
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1.52 times
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3.53 times
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0.25 times
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0.46 times
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0.45 times
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0.28 times
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1.06 times
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0.11 times
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0.33 times
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0.38 times
as big as Africa
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0.37 times
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0.17 times
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0.32 times
as big as Africa
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4.93 times
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0.46 times
as big as Africa
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0.15 times
as big as Africa
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2.81 times
as big as Africa
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1.81 times
as big as Africa
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0.34 times
as big as Africa
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0.36 times
as big as Africa
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2.88 times
as big as Africa
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0.11 times
as big as Africa
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0.20 times
as big as Africa
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0.22 times
as big as Africa
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0.13 times
as big as Africa
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0.11 times
as big as Africa
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2.34 times
as big as Africa
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0.23 times
as big as Africa
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0.25 times
as big as Africa
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0.63 times
as big as Africa
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2.63 times
as big as Africa
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0.73 times
as big as Africa
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0.17 times
as big as Africa
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0.20 times
as big as Africa
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4.80 times
as big as Africa
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0.17 times
as big as Africa
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2.48 times
as big as Africa
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0.17 times
as big as Africa
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0.43 times
as big as Africa
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0.24 times
as big as Africa
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0.22 times
as big as Africa
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0.40 times
as big as Africa
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0.78 times
as big as Africa
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1.25 times
as big as Africa
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0.13 times
as big as Africa
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0.38 times
as big as Africa
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0.78 times
as big as Africa
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0.13 times
as big as Africa
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0.11 times
as big as Africa
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0.82 times
as big as Africa
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0.17 times
as big as Africa
Australian Outback is
0.16 times
as big as Africa
Pacific Ocean is
5.46 times
as big as Africa
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3.42 times
as big as Africa
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4.93 times
as big as Africa
Pangea Proxima is
4.93 times
as big as Africa
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4.64 times
as big as Africa
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0.18 times
as big as Africa
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0.57 times
as big as Africa
Qing Dynasty is
0.49 times
as big as Africa
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0.17 times
as big as Africa
Russia is
0.57 times
as big as Africa
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0.75 times
as big as Africa
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0.31 times
as big as Africa
Sahel is
0.10 times
as big as Africa
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0.10 times
as big as Africa
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0.17 times
as big as Africa
Song Dynasty is
0.10 times
as big as Africa
South America is
0.59 times
as big as Africa
South Asia is
0.17 times
as big as Africa
South China Sea is
0.12 times
as big as Africa
Southeast Asia is
0.15 times
as big as Africa
Southern Ocean is
0.67 times
as big as Africa
Spanish Empire (1808) is
0.45 times
as big as Africa
Soviet Union is
0.74 times
as big as Africa
Tang Dynasty (660AD) is
0.35 times
as big as Africa
Tang Dynasty (715AD) is
0.18 times
as big as Africa
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0.15 times
as big as Africa
United Nations is
4.47 times
as big as Africa
United States is
0.33 times
as big as Africa
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0.27 times
as big as Africa
Warsaw Pact is
0.78 times
as big as Africa
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0.31 times
as big as Africa
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0.36 times
as big as Africa
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0.16 times
as big as Africa