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प्रश्न
Give the latitudinal extent of Africa and explain why it is mostly a tropical continent.
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उत्तर
The latitudinal extent of Africa is 37°N to 35°S. Africa is known as a mostly tropical continent because a large portion of Africa lies in the Tropics, the Tropic of cancer (23 1/2° N) in the North, and the Tropic of Capricorn (23 1/2° S) in the South.
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