NORTH AFRICA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An area of northern Africa between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "North Africa"):

Numidia (an ancient kingdom (later a Roman province) in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria)

Holonyms ("North Africa" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

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