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of Africa

Some Facts about

Africa
Africa is the second-largest
continent in the world in both,
area and population.

Area: about 30 244 000 km2

(11 700 000 mi2) including its
adjacent islands it covers
about 20 percent of Earth's
total land area. The area of
Mainland Africa is shared by
48 countries, plus six island
nations (see list below).

Population: 11.9 million

human inhabitants, about 14
percent of the world's Mount Kilimanjaro - Tanzania
population (in 2016). By far Image: Amoghavarsha
the most populated country is
Nigeria with 182 million
people.
(Source: UN 2015 Revision of Bookmark/share this page
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Highest Point: Mount

Kilimanjaro, Uhuru Peak on
the volcano Kibo, 5 895 m (19
340 ft) in Tanzania.

Largest Lake: Lake Victoria

or Victoria Nyanza; 68 870
km, shared by Uganda,
Kenya, and Tanzania.

Longest River: Nile; 6 695

km, the river flows through
eleven countries.

Languages of Africa: about

thousand languages classified
in four major language
families:
Afro-Asiatic (e.g. Berber
language), Nilo-Saharan,
Niger-Congo (Bantu), and
Khoi-San.

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List of African Countries

(as used by the United Nations when categorising geographic subregions)
Eastern Africa
Country Population Maps Capital City
Burundi 8,500,000 Burundi Map Bujumbura
Comoros 727,000 Comoros Map Moroni
Djibouti 900,000 Djibouti Map Djibouti
Eritrea 5,200,000 Eritrea Map Asmara
Ethiopia 85,000,000 Ethiopia Map Addis Ababa
Kenya 40,000,000 Kenya Map Nairobi
Madagascar 20,100,000 Madagascar Map Antananarivo
Malawi 15,400,000 Malawi Map Lilongwe
Mauritius 1,300,000 Port Louis
Mozambique 23,400,000 Mozambique Map Maputo
Runion 800,000 Runion Map Saint-Denis
Rwanda 10,400,000 Rwanda Map Kigali
Seychelles 100,000 Victoria
 Somalia 9,400,000 Somalia Map Mogadishu
Tanzania 45,000,000 Tanzania Map Dodoma, Dar es Salaam
Uganda 33,800,000 Uganda Map Kampala
Zambia 13,300,000 Zambia Map Lusaka
Zimbabwe 12,600,000 Zimbabwe Map Harare

Central Africa (Middle Africa, or also Equatorial Africa)

Country Population Maps Capital City
Angola 19,000,000 Angola Map Luanda
Cameroon 20,000,000 Cameroon Map Yaound
Central African Republic
Central African Republic 4,800,000 Bangui
Map
Chad 11,500,000 Chad Map N'Djamena
Congo, Rep. (Brazzaville) 3,900,000 Congo, Rep. Map Brazzaville
Congo, Dem. Rep.
67,800,000 Congo, Dem. Rep. Map Kinshasa
(Kinshasa)
Equatorial Guinea 700,000 Equatorial Guinea Map Malabo
Gabon 1,500,000 Gabon Map Libreville
So Tom and Prncipe 200,000 So Tom

Northern Africa or North Africa

Country Population Maps Capital City
Algeria 36,000,000 Algeria Map Algiers
Egypt 80,400,000 Egypt Map Cairo
Libya 6,500,000 Libya Map Tripoli
Morocco 31,900,000 Morocco Map Rabat
South Sudan 9,000,000 see: Sudan Map Juba
Sudan 36,000,000 Sudan Map Khartoum
Tunisia 10,500,000 Tunisia Map Tunis
Western Sahara 500,000 see: Mauritania Map (El Aain)

Southern Africa
Country Population Maps Capital City
Botswana 1,800,000 Botswana Map Gaborone
Lesotho 1,900,000 Maseru
Namibia 2,200,000 Namibia Map Windhoek
Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape
South Africa 49,900,000 South Africa Map
Town
Swaziland 1,200,000 Swaziland Map Mbabane, Lobamba
Western Africa
Country Population Maps Capital City
Benin 9,800,000 Benin Map Porto-Novo, Cotonou
Burkina Faso 16,200,000 Burkina Faso Map Ouagadougou
Cape Verde 500,000 Cape Verde Map Praia
Cte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 22,000,000 Ivory Coast Map Yamoussoukro, Abidjan
Gambia, The 1,800,000 see: Senegal Map Banjul
Ghana 24,000,000 Ghana Map Accra
Guinea 10,800,000 Guinea Map Conakry
Guinea-Bissau 1,600,000 Guinea-Bissau Map Bissau
Liberia 4,100,000 Liberia Map Monrovia
Mali 15,200,000 Mali Map Bamako
Mauritania 3,400,000 Mauritania Map Nouakchott
Niger 15,900,000 Niger Map Niamey
Nigeria 158,300,000 Nigeria Map Abuja
Saint Helena 6,000 Jamestown
Senegal 12,500,000 Senegal Map Dakar
Sierra Leone 5,800,000 Sierra Leone Map Freetown
Togo 6,800,000 Togo Map Lom