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Extractions: AFRICA , the name of a continent representing the largest of the three great southward projections from the main mass of the earth's surface. It includes within its remarkably regular outline an area, according to the most recent computations, of 11,262,000 sq. m., excluding the islands.1 Separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea, it is joined to Asia at its N.E. extremity by the Isthmus of Suez, 80 m. wide. From the most northerly point, Ras ben Sakka, a little west of Cape Blanc, in 37 21' N., to the most southerly point, Cape Agulhas, 34 51' 15" S., is a distance approximately of 5000 m.; from Cape Verde, 17 33' 22" W., the westernmost point, to Ras Hafun, 51 27' 52" E., the most easterly projection, is a distance (also approximately) of 4600 m. The length of coast-line is 16,100 m. and the absence of deep indentations of the shore is shown by the fact that Europe, which covers only 3,760,000 sq. m., has a coast-line of 19,800 m. I. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY The main structural lines of the continent show both the east-to-west direction characteristic, at least in the eastern hemisphere, of the more northern parts of the world, and the north-to-south direction seen in the southern peninsulas. Africa is thus composed of two segments at right angles, the northern running from east to west, the southern from north to south, the subordinate lines corresponding in the main to these two directions. Main Orographical Features.The mean elevation of the con-1 With the islands, 11,498,000 sq. m.
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Extractions: Lois linguistiques: Règles de procédure du Parlement ougandais Rules of Procedure of The Parliament of Uganda La république de l'Ouganda (nom officiel: Republic of Uganda ) est un État de lAfrique orientale, enclavé entre le Soudan au nord, le Kenya à lest, la Tanzanie et le Rwanda au sud, et le Congo-Kinshasa à louest ( voir la carte ). LOuganda, dont la capitale est Kampala, couvre une superficie de 241 038 km², soit l'équivalent de la Grande-Bretagne. Comparativement à bien d'autres pays africains, l'Ouganda est considéré comme un petit pays. La capitale Kampala est également la plus grande ville du pays; située sur la rive septentrionale du lac Victoria, elle compte 850 000 habitants. Elle possède le statut de municipalité urbaine et est la seule à disposer d'un tel privilège en Ouganda. Kampala est également la capitale du royaume du Buganda (correspondant approximativement à la
