The north of Africa shares a boundary with Asia. Africa is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South Atlantic Ocean in the south-west and the North Atlantic Ocean in the north-west.

Schlichter read a paper on “Ptolemy's Geography of Eastern Equatorial ... there is no denying that Ptolemy's map of North-Eastern Africa bears a wonderful resemblance to reality—just the ...

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