Africa
The second-largest and second-most populous continent, home to 54 countries and over 1.3 billion people.
Countries
56
Population
15250.5B
Total Area
28.0M km²
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Did You Know?
🌍 Africa has over 2,000 languages spoken across the continent
🦁 The Sahara Desert is larger than the entire United States
💎 Africa produces 80% of the world's diamonds and 50% of its gold
🏔️ Mount Kilimanjaro is the world's tallest free-standing mountain
Countries in Africa
Algeria
📍 Algiers
👥 47,735,685
Angola
📍 Luanda
👥 38,984,796
Benin
📍 Porto-Novo (constitutional capital); Cotonou (seat of government)
👥 15,186,090
Botswana
📍 Gaborone
👥 2,521,534
Burkina Faso
📍 Ouagadougou
👥 23,490,300
Burundi
📍 Gitega (political capital), Bujumbura (commercial capital)
👥 13,590,102
Côte d'Ivoire
📍 Yamoussoukro (legislative capital), Abidjan (administrative and economic capital); note - the US Embassy is in Abidjan
👥 31,855,971
Cabo Verde
📍 Praia
👥 611,014
Cameroon
📍 Yaounde
👥 31,518,954
Central African Republic
📍 Bangui
👥 5,750,570
Chad
📍 N'Djamena
👥 19,674,004
Comoros
📍 Moroni
👥 911,707
Congo (Brazzaville)
📍 Brazzaville
👥 6,097,665
Djibouti
📍 Djibouti
👥 1,013,703
DRC
📍 Kinshasa
👥 119,038,825
Egypt
📍 Cairo
👥 112,870,457
Equatorial Guinea
📍 Malabo; note - Malabo is on the island of Bioko; some months of the year, the government operates out of Bata on the mainland region.
👥 1,795,834
Eritrea
📍 Asmara
👥 6,416,435
Eswatini
📍 Mbabane (administrative capital); Lobamba (royal and legislative capital)
👥 1,137,268
Ethiopia
📍 Addis Ababa
👥 121,372,632
Gabon
📍 Libreville
👥 2,513,738
Ghana
📍 Accra
👥 35,336,133
Guinea
📍 Conakry
👥 14,374,590
Guinea-Bissau
📍 Bissau
👥 2,132,325
Kenya
📍 Nairobi
👥 55,751,717
Lesotho
📍 Maseru
👥 2,222,962
Liberia
📍 Monrovia
👥 5,563,541
Libya
📍 Tripoli (Tarabulus)
👥 7,361,263
Madagascar
📍 Antananarivo
👥 31,345,040
Malawi
📍 Lilongwe
👥 21,763,309
Mali
📍 Bamako
👥 22,634,423
Mauritania
📍 Nouakchott
👥 5,202,109
Mauritius
📍 Port Louis
👥 1,311,375
Morocco
📍 Rabat
👥 37,387,585
Mozambique
📍 Maputo
👥 34,206,144
Namibia
📍 Windhoek
👥 2,852,777
Niger
📍 Niamey
👥 27,322,555
Nigeria
📍 Abuja
👥 244,344,065
Rwanda
📍 Kigali
👥 13,623,302
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
📍 Jamestown
👥 7,943
Sao Tome and Principe
📍 Sao Tome
👥 223,561
Senegal
📍 Dakar
👥 18,847,519
Seychelles
📍 Victoria
👥 98,187
Sierra Leone
📍 Freetown
👥 9,331,203
Somalia
📍 Mogadishu
👥 20,324,160
South Africa
📍 Pretoria (administrative capital); Cape Town (legislative capital); Bloemfontein (judicial capital)
👥 61,089,926
South Sudan
📍 Juba
👥 12,703,714
Sudan
📍 Khartoum
👥 50,467,278
Tanzania
📍 Dodoma
👥 69,145,464
The Gambia
📍 Banjul
👥 2,523,327
Togo
📍 Lome
👥 9,143,439
Tunisia
📍 Tunis
👥 11,962,995
Uganda
📍 Kampala
👥 50,863,850
Western Sahara
Zambia
📍 Lusaka
👥 22,021,971
Zimbabwe
📍 Harare
👥 17,472,752