Map of Geographic Africa

Map of Geographic Africa

Africa is one of the continents in which the Earth’s emerging lands are subdivided, the third by extension after Asia and the two Americas.

Its territory constitutes a southwestern appendix of the great Eurasian continental mass; Extends over 30 million square kilometers on horseback to the Equator, which cuts it to two in the middle, causing the existence of two almost speculative halves. From the physical point of view, African territory is characterized by very wide tabular spaces, with no significant relief except in some marginal areas; There is a clear duality between the central-northern part, characterized mainly by bassopians occasionally moved by reliefs, and the southern and eastern part, where it extends a vast tabular plateau that rises towards shingle steep shores. In East Africa the Great Rift Valley stretches for over 6,000 kilometers, a succession of deep tectonic pits originating from the ongoing geological process of separating the African plaque from the Arab plaque.

Guido Bissanti