AFRICA is not A COUNTRY ND EDITION MARGY BURNS KNIGHT MARK MELNICOVE ILLUSTRATED BY ANNE SIBLEY O'BRIEN Millbrook Press Minneapolis
Africa is not a country it is a vast continent made up of fifty-four nations If you took the land of the United States and added it to the lands of China Japan and Europe Africa would still be bigger From the tiny island nations of Comoros Seychelles and São Tomé and Príncipe to its largest country Algeria Africa is the only continent with land in all four hemispheres Unlike any other continent it is divided into two almost equal lengths by the equator and it is nearly as wide as it is long If you drew a picture of Africa’s landscapes on a large pie and cut it into ten equal pieces only one piece would contain all of its rain forests Four pieces would represent the deserts another four would be mostly grass farmland and trees The final piece would hold all the mountains and cities of this beautiful vibrant continent where several hundred million children wake up every morning
