Africa Area Population 922,011,000(2005, 2nd) Density 30.51/km² (about 80/sq mi) Countries Dependencies Languages African Languages and many others Time Zones UTC-1 (Cape Verde) to UTC+4 (Mauritius) 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) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With… (More on African)