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Where are the islands?!? 41.221.193.172 ( talk) 22:16, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
I love to count how countries are in Africa l love too😜😝😛 102.128.79.86 ( talk) 05:38, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
As of the time and date of this Talk-Page edit, the article says "Including the exclave of Cabinda. Angola is the largest country in Africa and the fourth-largest country in the world which is completely in the Southern Hemisphere." That's just crazy. The exclave of Cabinda is a tiny sliver. Adding it to Angola doesn't move Angola up the list to where it is larger than Algeria. It just doesn't. Look at any map. 2600:1700:6759:B000:1C64:8308:33BC:E2D6 ( talk) 12:42, 13 February 2023 (UTC)Christopher Lawrence Simpson
This is wrong and must be rectified, the list does not include Western Sahara and added the sum of its territory to Morocco, Western Sahara is a member state of the African Union https://au.int/en/member_states/countryprofiles2 - and is included in the UN's official map https://www.un.org/geospatial/content/map-world-1 197.204.222.80 ( talk) 00:24, 20 April 2023 (UTC)
The default page width is now narrower, so I moved all the notes into a notes section. This gave a lot more room, so I added a percent column. While I was at it I updated the source and double checked everything for accuracy, and added sources to any calculations that would have relied on the 2007 CIA source. The oldest source is now from 2015.
I also split off Western Sahara because someone requested it and to be in line with the big list.
The numbers are also centered, and the Rank and Notes column are now unnamed. Wizmut ( talk) 03:52, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
Why was my edit on [1] reverted? I added Spain as the 50th country by area, considering only the territories in Africa, which are: the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla and the Plazas de soberanía. It was reverted after a few days without giving any explanation. 12qwas ( talk) 12:03, 21 December 2023 (UTC)