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Afrika

Afrika is the alternative spelling of Africa.

Meaning of Africa

Proper noun

Africa (countable and uncountable, plural Africas)

  1. The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica.
    • the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa
    Synonyms:
    Dark Continent
  2. (nonstandard, proscribed) Sub-Saharan Africa, contrasted with the Maghreb.
    • The Sahara stood as an important marker between the Maghreb and Africa, not only in modern times but in times immemorial.2021 June 10, Abdelmajid Hannoum, The Invention of the Maghreb: Between Africa and the Middle East, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 205
  3. (historical) A former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia, northeastern Algeria and portions of coastal Libya; existing from 146 BC (initially in the Roman Republic) through 698 AD, except for 439 through 534 AD, when it was occupied by the Vandals.
  4. A surname.

Questions about Afrika

What is Afrika the alternative spelling of?
Afrika is the alternative spelling of Africa.

Words near Afrika in the dictionary

  1. Afridis
  2. afright
  3. Afrihili
  4. afriit
  5. afriits
  6. Afrika
  7. Afrikaans
  8. Afrikaansness
  9. Afrikan
  10. Afrikander
  11. Afrikanderdom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Afrika (page history and authors); Africa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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