Africa

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Relief map centered on Africa

Africa was a continent on Earth. This continent had coastlines on the North and South Atlantic Oceans, the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. Two major lines of latitude, the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn, ran through this continent.

During World War II, German general Erwin Rommel fought in North Africa as well as the character played by the Hirogen Karr in a holoprogram. (VOY: "The Killing Game")

In an alternate timeline, the Nazi and Na'kuhl alliance faced several setbacks in World War II action in Africa during 1944. (ENT: "Storm Front")

In the mid-20th century, the mission insignias for Apollo 8 and Apollo 11 included western Africa in its design. (ENT: "First Flight")

During the Eugenics Wars, North Africa was a theater of battle. Captain Jonathan Archer's great-grandfather was involved in a campaign in North Africa. During that conflict, he contacted enemy forces in a successful effort to allow some non-combatant civilians time to get to safety. (ENT: "Hatchery")

In the early 21st century, Africa was heavily affected by the AIDS disease. (ENT: "Future Tense")

In the 2130s, Jonathan Archer made a trip to East Africa where he saw a gazelle give birth. (ENT: "Shockwave, Part II")

In the early 23rd century, Uhura was born in Africa, and spoke Swahili as her native language. (TOS: "Spectre of the Gun")

A 21st century-era political map of Earth was stored in the USS Enterprise's library computer in 2254. The African continent was seen on this map. This map was among the materials viewed by the Talosians when they scanned the Enterprise computer. (TOS-R: "The Cage")

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A version of Africa on Miri's planet

An identical landmass to Africa was observed on Miri's homeworld which was an exact replica of the planet Earth. (TOS: "Miri")

In 2335, Geordi La Forge was born in the African Confederation. (TNG: "Cause and Effect")

In 2369, the holodeck character of Regina Bartholomew told Reginald Barclay of her trip to Africa, where she had taken part in a safari and was allowed to wear trousers all the time. By this date, Barclay had never been to Africa. (TNG: "Ship in a Bottle")

According to an Original Series writer's guide, Uhura was born in 2239 in the "United States of Africa". However, no on-screen evidence for the existence of this political entity has ever been established.

The film's script of Star Trek explained that at the time of Kirk's corvette incident, his mother was in Africa.

Points of interest

• African Confederation
• Algeria
• Arabian Sea
• Dakar, Senegal
• Egypt
• Nairobi
  • University of Nairobi
• Somalia
  • Mogadishu
• South Africa

See also

• USS Biko
• Xhosa
• Yoruba mask

Background info

The map used in the original "The Cage" was published in the early 1960s. The landmass of Africa in the equatorial circle and north to the Mediterranean was seen on a political map of the northern hemisphere. Decades later, the map used in the remastered "The Cage" was a Central Intelligence Agency map published either in April 2007[1] or September 2008.[2] The difference, which was not noticeable at the resolution of the image from the episode, was the addition of Kosovo, which gained its independence between the releases.

20th century-era political map of Earth

21st century-era political map of Earth

Features from the CIA map
Country	Capital	Notes
Algeria	Algiers	A northern African country. Major cities - Constantine, Oran.
Angola	Luanda	A central African country. Major city - Namibe.
Bassas da India		A Mozambique Channel territory of France.
Benin	Porto Novo	A western African country.
Botswana	Gaborone	A southern African country.
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	A western African country.
Burundi	Bujumbura	An eastern African country.
Cameroon	Yaounde	A central African country. Major city - Douala.
Canary Islands		A North Atlantic Ocean territory of Spain.
Cape Verde	Praia	A western African country.
Central African Republic	Bangui	A central African country.
Ceuta		An exclave of Spain in Morocco.
Chad	N'Djamena	A central African country.
Comoros	Moroni	An eastern African country.
Cote d'Ivoire	Yamoussoukro	A western African country. Major city - Abidan.
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	A central African country. Major cities - Lubumbashi, Kisangani, Mbuji-Mayi.
Djibouti	Djibouti	An eastern African country.
Egypt	Cairo	A northern African country. Major cities - Alexandria, Al Jizah, Aswan.
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	A central African country.
Eritrea	Asmara	An eastern African country.
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	An eastern African country.
Europa Island		A Mozambique Channel territory of France.
Gabon	Libreville	A central African country.
Gambia	Banjul	A western African country.
Ghana	Accra	A western African country.
Glorioso Islands		A Mozambique Channel territory of France.
Guinea	Conakry	A western African country.
Guinea-Bassau	Bissau	A western African country.
Juan de Nova Island		A Mozambique Channel territory of France.
Kenya	Nairobi	An eastern African country. Major city - Mombasa.
Lesotho	Maseru	A southern African country.
Liberia	Monrovia	A western African country.
Libya	Tripoli	A northern African country. Major city - Benghazi.
Madagascar	Antananarivo	An eastern African country.
Malawi	Lilongwe	An eastern African country. Major city - Blantyre.
Mali	Bamako	A western African country. Major city - Tombouctou.
Mauritania	Nouakchott	A western African country.
Mauritius	Port Louis	An eastern African country.
Mayotte		An Indian Ocean island "administered by France, claimed by Comoros"
Melila		An exclave of Spain in Morocco.
Morocco	Rabat	A northern African country. Major cities - Casablanca, Fès, Marrakech.
Mozambique	Maputo	An eastern African country. Major city - Beira.
Namibia	Windhoek	A southern African country. Major city - Walvis Bay.
Niger	Niamey	A western African country.
Nigeria	Abuja	A western African country. Major cities - Ibadan, Kano, Lagos, Ogbomoso.
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	A central African country. Major city - Pointe-Noire.
Réunion	Saint-Denis	An Indian Ocean territory of France.
Rwanda	Kigali	An eastern African country.
Saint Helena		A South Atlantic Ocean territory of the United Kingdom. Islands in this territory - Ascension Island, Gough Island, Saint Helena, Tristan de Cunha.
São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	A central African country.
Senegal	Dakar	A western African country.
Seychelles	Victoria	An eastern African country.
Sierra Leone	Freetown	A western African country.
Somalia	Mogadishu	A eastern African country. Major city - Hargeysa.
South Africa	Pretoria	A southern African country. Major cities - Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth.
Sudan	Khartoum	A northern African country. Major cities - Iuba, Kassala, Nyala, Omdurman, Port Sudan, Omdurman.
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	An eastern African country. Major city - Dodoma.
Togo	Lomé	A western African country.
Tromelin Island		An Indian Ocean territory of France.
Tunisia	Tunis	A northern African country.
Uganda	Kampala	An eastern African country.
Zambia	Lusaka	An eastern African country. Major city - Ndola.
Zimbabwe	Harare	An eastern African country.

External link

• Africa at Wikipedia