Talk:Africa

discovery of Africa who and when discovered some parts of Africa

Misleading Coltan statement. Edit request from Jwilliams1117, 15 September 2011

Located in the "Economy" Section

"and most mobile phones in the world have coltan in them." is misleading/not true.

Please replace with

"and most mobile phones are made with elements refined from coltan."

or

"coltan contains elements widely used in mobile phones."

--Joshua Williams (talk) 21:31, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Done — Bility (talk) 16:37, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from 98.233.229.98, 22 September 2011

There's a missing space between the first and second words of the article (Africais).

98.233.229.98 (talk) 16:36, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Fixed, thanks--Jac16888 ^Talk 16:41, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

Citation Needed under Climate Section

I'm not a usual editor of Wikipedia, and can't figure out how to edit this article - although other articles I can edit.

Maybe someone can do it for me.

The citation needed under climate section...

it states the highest recorded temperature on earth was in libya in 1992 - not sure if my source is inaccurate, but I see that it was in libya in 1922 and here's the source... http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalextremes.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Youcanneverbetoosmart (talk • contribs) 14:22, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Zimbabwe

The "Territories and regions" cites Zimbabwe to be part of the Southern Africa, but the attached map (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Africa-regions.png) renders it in the Eastern Africa group. This inconsistency have to be solved. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Micron rt (talk • contribs) 11:14, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Africa is the most continental country I know. Well, besides Australia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Newt Toad (talk • contribs) 18:43, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Please fix - Africa is the third largest continent not the second

Please note that I'm getting my facts from other Wikipedia pages.

"Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi)"

" The Americas cover 8.3% of the Earth's total surface area (28.4% of its land area)", 42,549,000 km²

"Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area)" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.226.2.85 (talk) 01:23, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

You will notice that the material you quoted refers to "Americas" (plural), as in counting North and South America as two continents. This is the most common usage in English, in other languages (notably Spanish) the two are considered one continent. As this is the English Wikipedia, the default assumption is that N & S America are two continents and the statement that Africa is the second largest continent is correct. --Khajidha (talk) 19:27, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

what year was africa made a country?

i am a 5th grade kid, and i need to knmow now!! so tell me! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.159.239.154 (talk) 00:00, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Africa has never yet been made into a "country" as we know it. It is the name of a continent that includes over 50 different countries. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 00:41, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Christianity reached East Africa far before the 6th Century

"Christianity spread across these areas from Palestine via Egypt, also passing south, beyond the borders of the Roman world into Nubia and by at least the 6th century into Ethiopia." - What is this rubbish? East Africa, in particular modern-day Eritrea and Ethiopia, were fully Christian by the end of the 3rd Century A.D. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.123.6.6 (talk) 22:57, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Good point. The apparent ignorance some people have about this never ceases to amaze me. Nobody denies that it became the state religion of Aksum by 340 AD at the latest, and tradition also holds that the doctrine of Christianity first entered the region with the official baptised by Philip according to the book of Acts. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 23:34, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

So, has this been fixed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.123.235.211 (talk) 00:26, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 25 February 2012

"forreign" should be corrected to "foreign"

174.52.2.127 (talk) 17:15, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Y Done, thank you for pointing it out--Jac16888 ^Talk 19:55, 25 February 2012 (UTC)