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North Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1150 words) |
 | North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent. |
 | The inhabitants of North Africa are generally divided in a manner roughly corresponding to the principal geographic regions of North Africa: the Maghreb, the Nile Valley, and the Sahara. |
 | The northern part of the Sudan is home to the, largely, Arab Muslim population, but further down the Nile Valley, the culturally distinct world of the largely non-Muslim Nilotic and Nuba peoples begins. |
| Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (5579 words) |
 | Africa's largest country is Sudan, and its smallest country is the Seychelles, an archipelago off the east coast. |
 | Africa is the oldest inhabited territory on earth, with the human species originating from the continent. |
 | However, in South Africa and Namibia, the white minority remained politically dominant after independence from Europe, and a significant population of Europeans remained in these two countries even after democracy was finally instituted at the end of the Cold War. |