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1902 Encyclopedia > Africa > Area and Population of Africa (by Division)
Africa
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| Divisions | ..... | Area in English Square Miles |
..... | Population | ..... | Average Density: No. to a Square Mile |
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| NORTH AFRICA | 4,003,600 | 20,420,000 | 5 | |||
| -- Marocco | 259,600 | 2,750,000 | 10 | |||
| -- Algeria | 258,300 | 2,921,146 | 11 | |||
| -- Tunis | 45,700 | 2,000,000 | 43 | |||
| -- Tripoli, with Barca and Fezzan | 344,400 | 750,000 | 2 | |||
| -- Egyptian territory | 659,100 | 8,000,000 | 12 | |||
| -- Sahara | 2,436,500 | 4,000,000 | 1.6 | |||
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| THE MOHAMMEDAN STATES OF CENTRAL SOUDAN |
631,000 | 38,800,000 | 61 | |||
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| WESTERN SOUDAN, from the Senegal to the Lower Niger, including Upper Guinea, and... |
818,600 | 38,500,000 | 47 | |||
| -- French Senegambia | 96,530 | 209,162 | 2 | |||
| -- Liberia | 9,580 | 718,000 | 72 | |||
| -- Dahomeh | 3,880 | 180,000 | 47 | |||
| -- British Possessions | 17,100 | 577,313 | 34 | |||
| -- Portuguese Possessions | 35,880 | 8,500 | 0.2 | |||
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| EAST AFRICA | 1,595,000 | 29,700,000 | 18 | |||
| -- Abyssinia | 158,400 | 3,000,000 | 19 | |||
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| SOUTH AFRICA | 1,966,000 | 16,000,000 | 8 | |||
| -- Portuguese territory: East Coast | 382,000 | 300,000 | 0.8 | |||
| -- Portuguese territory: West Coast | 312,500 | 9,000,000 | 29 | |||
| -- Cape Colony | 221,310 | 682,600 | 3 | |||
| -- Natal | 17,800 | 269,362 | 15 | |||
| -- Orange R. Free State | 42,500 | 37,000 | 0.8 | |||
| -- Transvaal Republic | 114,360 | 120,000 | 1 | |||
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| EQUATORIAL REGIONS | 1,522,200 | 43,000,000 | 29 | |||
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| ISLANDS IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN |
2,720 | 99,145 | 37 | |||
| -- C. Verd Islands | 1,650 | 67,347 | 42 | |||
| -- St. Thomas and Principe | 454 | 19,295 | 42 | |||
| -- Fernando Po and Annobon | 488 | 5,590 | 11 | |||
| -- Ascension | 38 | 400 | 10 | |||
| -- St. Helena | 47 | 6,860 | 145 | |||
| -- Tristan da Cunha | 45 | 53 | 1 | |||
| ..... | ||||||
| ISLANDS IN THE INDIAN OCEAN |
233,870 | 6,000,000 | 25 | |||
| -- Socotra | 1,700 | 3,000 | 2 | |||
| -- Abd-el-Kuri | 64 | 100 | 2 | |||
| -- Zanzibar | 616 | 380,000 | 616 | |||
| -- Madagascar | 228,575 | 5,000,000 | 22 | |||
| -- Comoro Islands (with Mayotta) | 1,062 | 64,600 | 64 | |||
| -- The Arco Islands &c. | 150 | -- | -- | |||
| -- Réunion | 970 | 209,737 | 216 | |||
| -- Mauritius and its dependencies | 708 | 322,924 | 456 | |||
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| DESERT OF KALAHARI AND GREAT INLAND LAKES |
783,600 | -- | -- | |||
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| AFRICA | 11,556,6000 | 192,520,000 | 16 |
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