Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is spread across three of the major lines of latitude: the Tropic of Cancer, the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. The north of Africa ...

areas farthest from the equator appear disproportionately large. The most glaring example of this distortion is Greenland, which appears to be about the same size as Africa on the map, but in ...

Africa has the most countries of any continent ... a line of latitude 22 degrees north of the equator, separating Egypt and Sudan, two territories under British control. However, in 1902, Britain ...