Africa

Who is recorded here

• Moses the Ethiopian birth · AD 320
• Fabius Planciades Fulgentius death · AD 554

In art

• Ceiling fresco in the staircase of the Würzburg Residence — Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1752)
• The Four Continents — Peter Paul Rubens (1615)
• African elephants — Charles de Tournemine (1867)
• The Rhodes Colossus — Edward Linley Sambourne
• Allegory of Africa — Johann Christian Kirchner (1800)

About the place

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 including adjacent islands, it covers around 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surface area.

From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0