In total there are 54 African Countries.
Africa is one of the largest continents in the world, currently ranked at number 2 out of 7 continents.
It covers an area of 30.37 million km²(11.7 million square miles) and has a population of 1,216,130,000 people which is 16.36% of the world’s population.
Among the countries in Africa, Algeria is the largest and Nigeria has the largest population of 154.7 million people which represents 18% of Africa’s total population.
Down below is a list of all the of the African Countries and their capitals in alphabetical order
- Algeria – Algiers
- Angola – Luanda
- Benin – Porto-Novo
- Botswana – Gaborone
- Burkina Faso – Ouagadougou
- Burundi – Bujumbura
- Cameroon – Yaounde
- The Republic of Cabo Verde – Praia
- The Central African Republic – Bangui
- Chad – N’Djamena
- Comoros – Moroni
- Democratic Republic of Congo – Kinshasa
- Republic of Congo – Brazzaville
- Cote d’Ivoire – Yamoussoukro
- Djibouti – Djibouti
- Egypt – Cairo
- Equatorial Guinea – Malabo
- Eritrea – Asmara
- Ethiopia – Addis Ababa
- Gabon – Libreville
- Gambia – Banjul
- Ghana – Accra
- Guinea – Conakry
- Guinea-Bissau – Bissau
- Kenya – Nairobi
- Lesotho – Maseru
- Liberia – Monrovia
- Libya – Tripoli
- Madagascar – Antananarivo
- Malawi – Lilongwe
- Mali – Bamako
- Mauritania – Nouakchott
- Mauritius – Port Louis
- Morocco – Rabat
- Mozambique – Maputo
- Namibia – Windhoek
- Niger – Niamey
- Nigeria – Abuja
- Rwanda – Kigali
- Republic Arab Saharawi Democratic – Aauin
- Sao Tome and Principe – Sao Tome
- Senegal – Dakar
- Seychelles – Victoria
- Sierra Leone – Freetown
- Somalia – Mogadishu
- South Africa – Pretoria (Executive), Bloemfontein (Judicial), CapeTown (Legislative)
- South Sudan – Juba
- Sudan – Khartoum
- Swaziland – Lobamba (royal and legislative) Mbabane(Administrative)
- Tanzania – Dar es Salaam (Traditional capital) Dodoma (Location of legislature)
- Togo – Lomé
- Tunisia – Tunis
- Uganda – Kampala
- Zambia – Lusaka
- Zimbabwe – Harare
