🌍 Africa
Africa is the second largest and second most populous continent. It holds 54 sovereign countries, the Sahara — the largest hot desert on Earth — and the Nile, one of the world's longest rivers.
- Countries
- 54
- Area
- 30,370,000 km²
- Population
- 1.5 billion
- Highest point
- Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 m)
- Largest country
- Algeria
- Smallest country
- Seychelles
Africa facts
- Africa is the only continent that spans both the northern and southern temperate zones.
- Nigeria is the most populous African country, with over 220 million people.
- The Sahara covers roughly a third of the continent's land area.
- More than 1,000 languages are spoken across Africa.
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Countries in Africa
All 54 sovereign countries, alphabetically.
| Flag | Country | Capital | Population | Area (km²) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria | Algiers | 45,600,000 | 2,381,741 | |
| Angola | Luanda | 36,700,000 | 1,246,700 | |
| Benin | Porto-Novo | 13,700,000 | 112,622 | |
| Botswana | Gaborone | 2,700,000 | 581,730 | |
| Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | 23,300,000 | 274,200 | |
| Burundi | Gitega | 13,200,000 | 27,834 | |
| Cabo Verde | Praia | 600,000 | 4,033 | |
| Cameroon | Yaoundé | 28,600,000 | 475,442 | |
| Central African Republic | Bangui | 5,700,000 | 622,984 | |
| Chad | N'Djamena | 18,300,000 | 1,284,000 | |
| Comoros | Moroni | 850,000 | 1,862 | |
| Congo | Brazzaville | 6,100,000 | 342,000 | |
| Djibouti | Djibouti | 1,100,000 | 23,200 | |
| DR Congo | Kinshasa | 102,300,000 | 2,344,858 | |
| Egypt | Cairo | 112,700,000 | 1,001,450 | |
| Equatorial Guinea | Malabo | 1,700,000 | 28,051 | |
| Eritrea | Asmara | 3,700,000 | 117,600 | |
| Eswatini | Mbabane | 1,200,000 | 17,364 | |
| Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 126,500,000 | 1,104,300 | |
| Gabon | Libreville | 2,400,000 | 267,668 | |
| Gambia | Banjul | 2,800,000 | 11,295 | |
| Ghana | Accra | 34,100,000 | 238,533 | |
| Guinea | Conakry | 14,200,000 | 245,857 | |
| Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | 2,200,000 | 36,125 | |
| Ivory Coast | Yamoussoukro | 29,400,000 | 322,463 | |
| Kenya | Nairobi | 55,100,000 | 580,367 | |
| Lesotho | Maseru | 2,300,000 | 30,355 | |
| Liberia | Monrovia | 5,400,000 | 111,369 | |
| Libya | Tripoli | 6,900,000 | 1,759,540 | |
| Madagascar | Antananarivo | 30,300,000 | 587,041 | |
| Malawi | Lilongwe | 20,900,000 | 118,484 | |
| Mali | Bamako | 23,300,000 | 1,240,192 | |
| Mauritania | Nouakchott | 4,900,000 | 1,030,700 | |
| Mauritius | Port Louis | 1,300,000 | 2,040 | |
| Morocco | Rabat | 37,800,000 | 446,550 | |
| Mozambique | Maputo | 33,900,000 | 801,590 | |
| Namibia | Windhoek | 2,600,000 | 825,615 | |
| Niger | Niamey | 26,200,000 | 1,267,000 | |
| Nigeria | Abuja | 223,800,000 | 923,768 | |
| Rwanda | Kigali | 14,100,000 | 26,338 | |
| Sao Tome and Principe | São Tomé | 230,000 | 964 | |
| Senegal | Dakar | 17,800,000 | 196,722 | |
| Seychelles | Victoria | 110,000 | 452 | |
| Sierra Leone | Freetown | 8,800,000 | 71,740 | |
| Somalia | Mogadishu | 18,100,000 | 637,657 | |
| South Africa | Pretoria | 60,400,000 | 1,221,037 | |
| South Sudan | Juba | 11,100,000 | 644,329 | |
| Sudan | Khartoum | 48,100,000 | 1,861,484 | |
| Tanzania | Dodoma | 67,400,000 | 947,303 | |
| Togo | Lomé | 9,100,000 | 56,785 | |
| Tunisia | Tunis | 12,500,000 | 163,610 | |
| Uganda | Kampala | 48,600,000 | 241,550 | |
| Zambia | Lusaka | 20,600,000 | 752,612 | |
| Zimbabwe | Harare | 16,700,000 | 390,757 |