Seychelles

Caribbean

Mauritania

Mauritius

São Tomé and Príncipe

None

Algeria

Egypt

Libya

Morocco

Tunisia

Western Sahara

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Angola

Benin

Botswana

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cabo Verde

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Comoros

Côte d'Ivoire

Democratic Republic of Congo

Djibouti

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

eSwatini

Ethiopia

Gabon

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Kenya

Lesotho

Liberia

Madagascar

Malawi

Mali

Mozambique

Namibia

Niger

Nigeria

Republic of the Congo

Rwanda

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Somalia

South Africa

South Sudan

Sudan

Tanzania

Togo

Uganda

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map of Africa highlights the countries of the Africa that are the members of African Union. All countries of Africa along with the Madagascar are shaded in green.

Member states of the African Union, established in 1963 to achieve greater unity and solidarity among its members

Countries

World

African Union

African Union (AU) Members

Alaska

Northwest Territories

Florida

Washington

Nunavut

Maine

Nova Scotia

Virginia

Delaware

Prince Edward Island

Texas

Louisiana

Hawaii

North Carolina

New Brunswick

British Columbia

Newfoundland and Labrador

New Jersey

South Carolina

Massachusetts

New York

Maryland

Québec

Ontario

California

A map shows the distribution of neritic and pelagic sediments in the world's oceans shown with various colors.

Composition and distribution of ocean sediments.

Distribution of neritic (nearshore) and pelagic (open ocean) sediments

Abyssal clay, shown in medium green, dominates the vast expanses of the central Pacific Ocean, parts of the South Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. Calcareous ooze, depicted in lighter green, is found prominently in the North and South Atlantic Ocean, around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, and near the western coasts of South America and Central America. It is also found in the South Indian Ocean. Continental (lithogenous) sediments, marked in light blue-green, are concentrated along the continental margins, particularly around the Mediterranean Sea, the eastern and western coasts of North America, the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the coastlines of Africa, Australia, and Southeast Asia. Diatomaceous sediments, shown in medium blue-green, are prevalent in regions near the Antarctic Circle, indicating cold, nutrient-rich waters. Radiolarian sediments, highlighted in forest green, are scattered in parts of the central Pacific and Indian Oceans. Other types of sediments, represented in dark green, are found in patches across oceanic regions.

African Union (AU) Members	Distribution of Neritic (Nearshore) and Pelagic (Open Ocean) Sediments
Value	Abyssal clay	Calcareous ooze	Continental (lithogenous)	Diatom	Radiolarian



	29.4%	0.428%	4.26%	0.351%	22.4%