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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.
Population: 1,030 million human inhabitants, about 20 percent of the world's population.
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 sq. km.
Longest River: Nile; 6 695 km.
Languages of Africa: about thousand languages classified in four major language families:
Afro-Asiatic (e.g. Berber lang), Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo (Bantu), and Khoi-San.

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Mount Kilimanjaro - Tanzania © OSU Research News


List of African Countries

(as used by the United Nations when categorising geographic subregions)

Eastern Africa

   
  Country
Population
 Map Capital City
BDI Burundi 8,500,000 Burundi Map Bujumbura
COM Comoros 727,000 Comoros Map Moroni
DJI Djibouti 900,000 Djibouti Map Djibouti
ERI Eritrea 5,200,000 Eritrea Map Asmara
ETH Ethiopia 85,000,000 Ethiopia Map Addis Ababa
KEN Kenya 40,000,000 Kenya Map Nairobi
MDG Madagascar 20,100,000 Madagascar Map Antananarivo
MWI Malawi 15,400,000 Malawi Map Lilongwe
MUS Mauritius 1,300,000   Port Louis
MOZ Mozambique 23,400,000 Mozambique Map Maputo
FRA Réunion 800,000   Saint-Denis
RWA Rwanda 10,400,000 Rwanda Map Kigali
SYC Seychelles 100,000   Victoria
SOM Somalia 9,400,000 Somalia Map Mogadishu
TZA Tanzania 45,000,000 Tanzania Map Dodoma, Dar es Salaam
UGA Uganda 33,800,000 Uganda Map Kampala
ZMB Zambia 13,300,000 Zambia Map Lusaka
ZWE Zimbabwe 12,600,000 Zimbabwe Map Harare
 

Central Africa (Middle Africa)

   
  Country Population Map Capital City
AGO Angola 19,000,000 Angola Map Luanda
CMR Cameroon 20,000,000 Cameroon Map Yaoundé
CAF Central African Republic 4,800,000 Central African Republic Map Bangui
TCD Chad 11,500,000 Chad Map N'Djamena
COG Congo, Rep. (Brazzaville) 3,900,000 Congo, Rep. Map Brazzaville
COD Congo, Dem. Rep. (Kinshasa) 67,800,000 Congo, Dem. Rep. Map Kinshasa
GNQ Equatorial Guinea 700,000 Equatorial Guinea Map Malabo
GAB Gabon 1,500,000 Gabon Map Libreville
STP São Tomé and Príncipe 200,000   São Tomé
 

Northern Africa

   
  Country Population Map Capital City
DZA Algeria 36,000,000 Algeria Map Algiers
EGY Egypt 80,400,000 Egypt Map Cairo
LBY Libya 6,500,000 Libya Map Tripoli
MAR Morocco 31,900,000 Morocco Map Rabat
SSD South Sudan 9,000,000 see: Sudan Map Juba
SDN Sudan 36,000,000 Sudan Map Khartoum
TUN Tunisia 10,500,000 Tunisia Map Tunis
WestSahara Western Sahara 500,000 see: Mauritania Map ---
 

Southern Africa

   
  Country Population Map Capital City
BWA Botswana 1,800,000 Botswana Map Gaborone
LSO Lesotho 1,900,000   Maseru
NAM Namibia 2,200,000 Namibia Map Windhoek
ZAF South Africa 49,900,000 South Africa Map Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town
SWZ Swaziland 1,200,000 Swaziland Map Mbabane, Lobamba
 

Western Africa

   
  Country Population Map Capital City
BEN Benin 9,800,000 Benin Map Porto-Novo, Cotonou
BFA Burkina Faso 16,200,000 Burkina Faso Map Ouagadougou
CPV Cape Verde 500,000 Cape Verde Map Praia
CIV Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 22,000,000 Ivory Coast Map Yamoussoukro, Abidjan
GMB Gambia, The 1,800,000 see: Senegal Map Banjul
GHA Ghana 24,000,000 Ghana Map Accra
GIN Guinea 10,800,000 Guinea Map Conakry
GNB Guinea-Bissau 1,600,000 Guinea-Bissau Map Bissau
LBR Liberia 4,100,000 Liberia Map Monrovia
MLI Mali 15,200,000 Mali Map Bamako
MRT Mauritania 3,400,000 Mauritania Map Nouakchott
NER Niger 15,900,000 Niger Map Niamey
NGA Nigeria 158,300,000 Nigeria Map Abuja
Saint Helena Saint Helena 6,000   Jamestown
SEN Senegal 12,500,000 Senegal Map Dakar
SLE Sierra Leone 5,800,000 Sierra Leone Map Freetown
TGO Togo 6,800,000 Togo Map Lomé
Source: Population Reference Bureau: 2010 World Population Data Sheet

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