How many nations in africa?

Africa's total population surpassing other continents is fairly recent; African population surpassed Europe in the 1990s, while the Americas was overtaken sometime around the year 2000; Africa's rapid population growth is expected to overtake the only two nations currently larger than its population, at roughly the same time – India and China's 1.4 billion people each will swap ranking around the year 2022. read more

we were asked. The answer is more complicated than you might think but, simply put, there are 55 states that are recognised by either the AU or the UN or both. read more

Up to 3,000 languages are spoken throughout Africa's 54 countries. The continent sits to the east of the Atlantic Ocean, to the west of the Indian Ocean and south of the Mediterranean Sea, which separates Africa from Europe. read more