File:Africa (satellite image).jpg

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Description

English: A composed satellite photograph of Africa.

Source

The image is a crop (and jpeg encoding) of the 21600 x 10800 TIFF from [1]. Care was taken to include the Azores, Cape Verde, the Arabian peninsula, and the islands immediately East off Madagascar.

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- Àfrica
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- Afrikas geografi
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- Coğrafyay Afrika
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- Féminisme africain
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