how wide is africa
Africa's waistline reaches from the tip of the Gulf of lIden in the east to Dakar on the western shoreline which bulges out into the Atlantic. This line, the width of Africa, is about 4, 600 miles. As a continent, Africa is second in area only to the continent of Asia. Its total area is estimated to be 11,600,000 square miles. It has room to swallow Canada, Mexico, the United States including Alaska anal. still have room for dessert.