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Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km² (11,668,545 sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area. With more than 900,000,000 people (as of 2005) in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. There are 46 countries including Madagascar, and 53 including all the island groups. |
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| Hassi Messaoud is a town in eastern Algeria. Oil was discovered here in 1956 and the town's prominence has grown rapidly since then. It is an oil refinery town. However, town was named after the first well, a water well, dug in 1917 to be found on the airport side of town.
The town is served by the Oued Irara Airport, which has service to London-Gatwick, Madrid and Paris-Charles De Gaulle, among others however the London-Gatwick flight, operated by British Airways, has been suspended until June 2007 for safety reasons.1 The London-Gatwick flight, operated by Jet-Air, runs on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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