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Countries of Africa

55 countries and one territory 1,124,774,677 inhabitants 30,312,551 sq km 0.03 inhabitants/sq km population evolution

This sections allows you to see the list of all countries of Africa. Every country has a few important details attached: flag, capital, population and total area. For full details of every country, just click on its name. If you wish to sort countries differently (e.g.: by area or by population) just click the corresponding table heading. By default, countries are ordered alphabetically.

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Country Capital Population Area
Flag of Algeria Algeria Algiers 38,813,722 2,381,741
Flag of Angola Angola Luanda 19,088,106 1,246,700
Flag of Benin Benin Porto-Novo 10,160,556 112,622
Flag of Botswana Botswana Gaborone 2,155,784 581,730
Flag of Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 18,365,123 274,200
Flag of Burundi Burundi Bujumbura 10,395,931 27,830
Flag of Cameroon Cameroon Yaounde 23,130,708 475,440
Flag of Cape Verde Cape Verde Praia 538,535 4,033
Flag of Central African Republic Central African Republic Bangui 5,277,959 622,984
Flag of Chad Chad N'Djamena 11,412,107 1,284,000
Flag of Comoros Comoros Moroni 766,865 2,235
Flag of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Kinshasa 77,433,744 2,344,858
Flag of Congo, Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Brazzaville 4,662,446 342,000
Flag of Cote d'Ivoire Cote d'Ivoire Yamoussoukro 22,848,945 322,463
Flag of Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti 810,179 23,200
Flag of Egypt Egypt Cairo 86,895,099 1,001,450
Flag of Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea Malabo 722,254 28,051
Flag of Eritrea Eritrea Asmara 6,380,803 117,600
Flag of Ethiopia Ethiopia Addis Ababa 96,633,458 1,104,300
Flag of Gabon Gabon Libreville 1,672,597 267,667
Flag of Gambia, The Gambia, The Banjul 1,925,527 11,295
Flag of Ghana Ghana Accra 25,758,108 238,533
Flag of Guinea Guinea Conakry 11,474,383 245,857
Flag of Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau Bissau 1,693,398 36,125
Flag of Kenya Kenya Nairobi 45,010,056 580,367
Flag of Lesotho Lesotho Maseru 1,942,008 30,355
Flag of Liberia Liberia Monrovia 4,092,310 111,369
Flag of Libya Libya Tripoli 6,244,174 1,759,540
Flag of Madagascar Madagascar Antananarivo 23,201,926 587,041
Flag of Malawi Malawi Lilongwe 17,377,468 118,484
Flag of Mali Mali Bamako 16,455,903 1,240,192
Flag of Mauritania Mauritania Nouakchott 3,516,806 1,030,700
Flag of Mauritius Mauritius Port Louis 1,331,155 2,040
Flag of Morocco Morocco Rabat 32,987,206 446,550
Flag of Mozambique Mozambique Maputo 24,692,144 799,380
Flag of Namibia Namibia Windhoek 2,198,406 824,292
Flag of Niger Niger Niamey 17,466,172 1,267,000
Flag of Nigeria Nigeria Abuja 177,155,754 923,768
Flag of Rwanda Rwanda Kigali 12,337,138 26,338
Flag of Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome 190,428 964
Flag of Senegal Senegal Dakar 13,635,927 196,722
Flag of Seychelles Seychelles Victoria 91,650 455
Flag of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Freetown 5,743,725 71,740
Flag of Somalia Somalia Mogadishu 10,428,043 637,657
Flag of South Africa South Africa Pretoria 48,375,645 1,219,090
Flag of South Sudan South Sudan Juba 11,562,695 644,329
Flag of Sudan Sudan Khartoum 35,482,233 1,861,484
Flag of Swaziland Swaziland Mbabane 1,419,623 17,364
Flag of Tanzania Tanzania Dar es Salaam 49,639,138 947,300
Flag of Togo Togo Lome 7,351,374 56,785
Flag of Tunisia Tunisia Tunis 10,937,521 163,610
Flag of Uganda Uganda Kampala 35,918,915 241,038
Flag of Western Sahara Western Sahara N/A 554,795 266,000
Flag of Zambia Zambia Lusaka 14,638,505 752,618
Flag of Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Harare 13,771,721 390,757