The continent of Africa can be conceptually subdivided into a number of regions. World map showing location of Africa A satellite composite image of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest continent in both area and population, after Asia. ...

One common approach envisions Africa geographically:

• North Africa lies north of the Sahara and runs along the Mediterranean coast.
• West Africa is the portion commonly known as the Bulge of Africa, excluding Northern Africa and the Maghreb.
• East Africa stretches from the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa to Mozambique, including Madagascar but excluding the southern and northern edges of the continent.
• Central Africa is the large mass at the center of Africa which either does not fall squarely into any other region or only partially does so.
• Southern Africa consists of the portion generally south of -10° latitude and the great rainforests of Congo.

Another common approach envisions Africa climatically: North Africa is a region generally considered to include: Algeria Egypt Libya Mauritania Morocco Sudan Tunisia Western Sahara The Canary Islands, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Madeira are sometimes considered to be a part of North Africa. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... West Africa is the region of western Africa generally considered to include these countries: Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Côte dIvoire (Ivory Coast) Equatorial Guinea Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) Senegal Sierra Leone Togo Chad, Mauritania, and... The Bulge of Africa is composed of West Africa and the Maghreb. ... (see also North Africa, Tamazgha, Arab Maghreb Union, Mashreq) The Maghreb (or Moghreb), meaning west in Arabic, is the region of the continent of Africa north of the Sahara desert and west of the Nile - specifically, the modern countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and to a lesser extent Libya and... East Africa is a region generally considered to include: Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Somalia Tanzania Uganda [[Image:Example. ... (Red Sea is also the name of a state in Sudan) Conshelf II in the Red Sea (Sudan) The Red Sea (Arabic البحر الأحمر Baḥr al-Aḥmar, al-Baḥru l-’Aḥmar; Hebrew ים סוף Yam Suf) is a gulf or basin of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. ... The Horn of Africa is a peninsula in East Africa that juts into the Arabian Sea and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. ... Categories: Africa geography stubs | Southern Africa ...

• The Sahara Desert is the massive but largely empty region in North Africa that contains the world's largest desert.
• The Maghreb is a region of northwest Africa encompassing the coastlands and Atlas Mountains of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.
• The Sahel region covers a belt of grasslands south of the Sahara stretching from Senegal to Sudan.
• The Sudan region lies just below the Sahel but is slightly more moist and arable.
• The Guinea region is distinguished from the neighboring Sahel by its rainforests and runs along the Atlantic coast from Guinea to Nigeria.
• The Congo is the rainforest region of the Congo River Basin.
• The Great Lakes region is marked by a series of five lakes—Lake Albert, Lake Edward, Lake Kivu, Lake Tanganyika, and Lake Victoria—that lie in and around the Great Rift Valley. It contains Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi as well as portions of Kenya, Tanzania, and the DRC.