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Afrotropical realm
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one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 3,069 inbound references to Afrotropical realm, and connects out to Drakensberg, fynbos and Sudanian savanna.
It is catalogued under topics including Afrotropical realm, Biogeographic realms and Biogeography.
Vinony links it to 44 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- biogeographic realm
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- Commons category
- Afrotropic
- topic's main category
- Category:Afrotropical realm
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
The Afrotropical realm (in blue)
The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopian Zone or Ethiopian Region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Afrotropical realm” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.