Borders and coastlines from the Natural Earth dataset, public domain. Land colour follows
Africa's vegetation zones — Mediterranean fringe, Sahara, Sahel, Sudanian savanna, Guinean
forest, Congo basin, miombo, Kalahari, Karoo, Cape — drawn schematically by latitude with
corrections for the Namib, the Horn and the Ethiopian highlands; it is not satellite imagery.
Population figures are rounded UN estimates for 2024, areas computed from the mapped border.
Solar and lunar geometry after the low-precision algorithms of the US Naval Observatory and
Jean Meeus, computed in this browser — no service is called, nothing is stored, no cookies are set.
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