1. North Africa - Noun
2. North Africa - Proper noun
an area of northern Africa between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea
Source: WordNetI am on my way to Ghana tomorrow morning and you just need to know that this Administration is very focused on doing all we can to promote economic development in this part of the world, in Africa, throughout Africa, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Donald Evans
I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves. Clifford Geertz
I want to impose on everyone that the bad times are over, they are finished! Our mandate from the Prime Minister is to destroy the Axis forces in North Africa...It can be done, and it will be done! Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Africa north of the Sahara, from a zoological point of view, is now, and has been since early Tertiary times, a part of Europe. This is true both of animals and of the races of man. The Berbers of north Africa to-day are racially identical with the Spaniards and south Italians. Madison Grant
The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa. Otto Schily
Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place. Richard Leakey