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- World: 6302
- China: 1287
- India: 1050
- Africa: 856
- Sub-Saharan Africa: 701
- Western Europe: 393
- USA: 290
- Russia: 144
- Nigeria: 134
- Egypt: 75
- Ethiopia: 67
- Congo (Kinshasa): 57
- South Africa: 43
Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2003, est.
There are over: 800 ethnic groups in Africa This
includes Asians, Europeans, and Arabs, who have permanently settled there - for
centuries in some cases.
Approximately 255 million people live in West Africa
and 225 million in East Africa, the two most populous of Africa’s five
regions, almost as many as in the entire U.S. Central Africa, the
least populous, has over 100 million people. Southern Africa and North
Africa each have about 150 million.
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