Africa (Latin: Africa), the full name of Africa, is located in the eastern hemisphere in Western Europe, South Asia, West, east to India ocean, west of the Atlantic, spanning the equator, an area of 30 million 200 thousand square kilometers (land area), accounting for 20.4% of the world's total land area, is the second continents of the world, but also the population the second continents (1 billion 32 million 500 thousand).