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Sub-Saharan Africa

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"Sub-Saharan Africa" as used in the statistics of many of the UN institutions

Sub-Saharan Africa is the part of Africa that is south of the Sahara. It includes of all the countries of Africa that are fully or partly located south of the Sahara desert (except Sudan).[1] It contrasts with North Africa, which is considered a part of the Arab world. Somalia, Djibouti, Comoros and Mauritania are geographically part of Sub-Saharan Africa, but also part of the Arab world.[2]

References

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  1. "Political definition of "Major regions", according to the UN". Archived from the original on 20 April 2010. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
  2. Tajudeen Abdul Raheem, ed., Pan Africanism: Politics, Economy and Social Change in the Twenty First Century, Pluto Press, London, 1996.


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