Capitals of Africa

All 54 capitals of Africa

Country	Capital	Population	Area
Algeria	Algiers	46.8 million	2,381,741 km²
Angola	Luanda	37.9 million	1,246,700 km²
Benin	Porto-Novo *	14.5 million	112,622 km²
Botswana	Gaborone	2.5 million	582,000 km²
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	23.5 million	272,967 km²
Burundi	Gitega	14 million	27,834 km²
Cameroon	Yaoundé	29.1 million	475,442 km²
Cape Verde	Praia	524,900	4,033 km²
Central African Republic	Bangui	5.3 million	622,984 km²
Chad	N'Djamena	20.3 million	1,284,000 km²
Comoros	Moroni	866,600	1,862 km²
Djibouti	Djibouti	1.2 million	23,200 km²
DR Congo	Kinshasa	109.3 million	2,344,858 km²
Egypt	Cairo	116.5 million	1,002,450 km²
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	1.9 million	28,051 km²
Eritrea	Asmara	3.5 million	117,600 km²
Eswatini	Mbabane and Lobamba *	1.2 million	17,364 km²
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	132.1 million	1,104,300 km²
Gabon	Libreville	2.5 million	267,668 km²
Gambia	Banjul	2.8 million	10,689 km²
Ghana	Accra	34.4 million	238,533 km²
Guinea	Conakry	14.8 million	245,857 km²
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	2.2 million	36,125 km²
Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro *	31.9 million	322,463 km²
Kenya	Nairobi	56.4 million	580,367 km²
Lesotho	Maseru	2.3 million	30,355 km²
Liberia	Monrovia	5.6 million	111,369 km²
Libya	Tripoli	7.4 million	1,759,540 km²
Madagascar	Antananarivo	32 million	587,041 km²
Malawi	Lilongwe	21.7 million	118,484 km²
Mali	Bamako	24.5 million	1,240,192 km²
Mauritania	Nouakchott	5.2 million	1,030,700 km²
Mauritius	Port Louis	1.2 million	2,040 km²
Morocco	Rabat	38.1 million	446,550 km²
Mozambique	Maputo	34.6 million	801,590 km²
Namibia	Windhoek	3 million	825,615 km²
Niger	Niamey	27 million	1,267,000 km²
Nigeria	Abuja	232.7 million	923,768 km²
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	6.3 million	342,000 km²
Rwanda	Kigali	14.3 million	26,338 km²
São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	235,500	964 km²
Senegal	Dakar	18.5 million	196,722 km²
Seychelles	Victoria	121,400	452 km²
Sierra Leone	Freetown	8.6 million	71,740 km²
Somalia	Mogadishu	19 million	637,657 km²
South Africa	Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein *	64 million	1,221,037 km²
South Sudan	Juba	11.9 million	619,745 km²
Sudan	Khartoum	50.4 million	1,886,068 km²
Tanzania	Dodoma *	68.6 million	945,087 km²
Togo	Lomé	8.4 million	56,785 km²
Tunisia	Tunis	12.3 million	163,610 km²
Uganda	Kampala	50 million	241,550 km²
Zambia	Lusaka	21.3 million	752,612 km²
Zimbabwe	Harare	16.6 million	390,757 km²

• * Benin: Porto-Novo is the official capital; Cotonou is the seat of government.
• * Eswatini: Mbabane is the administrative capital, Lobamba the royal and legislative one.
• * Ivory Coast: Yamoussoukro is the official capital; most institutions are in Abidjan.
• * South Africa: South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria (government), Cape Town (parliament) and Bloemfontein (supreme court of appeal).
• * Tanzania: Dodoma is the official capital; Dar es Salaam is the largest city and still hosts many offices.

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