What is Africa?
{{Infobox continent |title = Africa |image = Africa (orthographic projection).svg |area = {{convert|30,370,000|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} &nbsp;([[List of continents by area|2nd]]) |population = {{UN_Population|Africa}}{{UN_Population|ref}} ({{UN_Population|Year}}; [[List of continents by population|2nd]]) |density = {{pop density|1100000000|30221532|km2|sqmi}} |GDP_nominal = $2.45 trillion (2019; [[List of continents by GDP (nominal)|5th]])<ref name=IMF_Data/> |GDP_PPP = $7.16 trillion (2019; 5th)<ref name=IMF_Data/> |GDP_per_capita = $1,930 (2019; [[List of continents by GDP (nominal)#GDP per capita (nominal) by continents|6th]])<ref name=IMF_Data>{{cite web|title=IMF (WEO April 2019 Edition) GDP nominal and PPP data – international dollar|url=https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/datasets/WEO/1|access-date=2020-04-23|archive-date=2020-11-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122192835/https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/datasets/WEO/1|url-status=live}}</ref> |demonym = African |countries = 54 |list_countries = List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa |dependencies = {{Collapsible list |list_style = text-align:left; |title = External (1) | 1 = {{flag|Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha}} }} {{Collapsible list |list_style = text-align:left; |title = Internal (6) | 1 = {{flag|Canary Islands}} | 2 = {{flag|Ceuta}} | 3 = {{flag|Madeira}} | 4 = {{flag|Mayotte}} | 5 = {{flag|Melilla}} | 6 = {{flag|Réunion}} }} |languages = [[Languages of Africa|1250–3000 native languages]] |time = [[UTC-1]] to [[UTC+4]] |cities = [[List of urban agglomerations in Africa|Largest urban areas]]:<!-- -->{{hlist |item_style=white-space:break; |[[Cairo]] |[[Lagos]] |[[Kinshasa]] |[[Johannesburg]] |[[Luanda]] |[[Khartoum]] |[[Dar es Salaam]] |[[Abidjan]] |[[Alexandria]] |[[Nairobi]] |[[Cape Town]] |[[Kano]] |[[Dakar]] |[[Casablanca]] |[[Addis Ababa]]}} }} '''Africa''' is the second largest