Map of Africa

Africa has 54 sovereign states, from Morocco and Egypt in the north to South Africa in the south. This page lists 58 countries and territories in Africa with their capitals, and the largest cities on mapof.net. The map shows the capitals.

Countries in Africa

Country	Capital	Area (km²)	City maps
Algeria	Algiers	2,381,740	163
Angola	Luanda	1,246,700	58
Benin	Porto-Novo	112,620	30
Botswana	Gaborone	600,370	14
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	274,200	30
Burundi	Gitega	27,830	6
Cabo Verde	Praia	4,033	5
Cameroon	Yaoundé	475,440	52
Central African Republic	Bangui	622,984	15
Chad	N'Djamena	1,284,000	22
Comoros	Moroni	2,170	5
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	2,345,410	106
Djibouti	Djibouti	23,000	5
Egypt	Cairo	1,001,450	175
Equatorial Guinea	Ciudad de la Paz	28,051	6
Eritrea	Asmara	121,320	5
Eswatini	Mbabane	17,363	5
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	1,127,127	126
Gabon	Libreville	267,667	12
Gambia	Banjul	11,300	7
Ghana	Accra	239,460	63
Guinea	Conakry	245,857	19
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	36,120	5
Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	322,460	64
Kenya	Nairobi	582,650	68
Lesotho	Maseru	30,355	7
Liberia	Monrovia	111,370	9
Libya	Tripoli	1,759,540	32
Madagascar	Antananarivo	587,040	47
Malawi	Lilongwe	118,480	11
Mali	Bamako	1,240,000	29
Mauritania	Nouakchott	1,030,700	9
Mauritius	Port Louis	2,040	5
Mayotte	Mamoudzou	374	5
Morocco	Rabat	446,550	103
Mozambique	Maputo	801,590	37
Namibia	Windhoek	825,418	8
Niger	Niamey	1,267,000	20
Nigeria	Abuja	923,768	175
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	342,000	8
Rwanda	Kigali	26,338	11
Réunion	Saint-Denis	2,517	11
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	Jamestown	410	4
Sao Tome and Principe	São Tomé	1,001	5
Senegal	Dakar	196,190	32
Seychelles	Victoria	455	5
Sierra Leone	Freetown	71,740	7
Somalia	Mogadishu	637,657	27
South Africa	Pretoria	1,219,912	141
South Sudan	Juba	644,329	10
Sudan	Khartoum	1,861,484	37
Tanzania	Dodoma	945,087	72
Togo	Lomé	56,785	11
Tunisia	Tunis	163,610	46
Uganda	Kampala	236,040	45
Western Sahara	Laayoune	266,000	4
Zambia	Lusaka	752,614	36
Zimbabwe	Harare	390,580	23

Largest cities in Africa

#	City	Country	Population
1	Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo	16,000,000
2	Lagos	Nigeria	15,388,000
3	Cairo	Egypt	9,606,916
4	Johannesburg	South Africa	9,418,183
5	Abidjan	Ivory Coast	6,321,017
6	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	5,383,728
7	Alexandria	Egypt	5,263,542
8	Kano	Nigeria	4,910,000
9	Cape Town	South Africa	4,772,846
10	Nairobi	Kenya	4,397,073
11	Giza	Egypt	4,367,343
12	Bamako	Mali	4,227,569
13	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	3,860,000
14	Casablanca	Morocco	3,665,954
15	Ibadan	Nigeria	3,649,000
16	Durban	South Africa	3,338,026
17	Luanda	Angola	2,776,168
18	Abuja	Nigeria	2,690,000
19	Dakar	Senegal	2,646,503
20	Mogadishu	Somalia	2,587,183
21	Kumasi	Ghana	2,544,530
22	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	2,415,266
23	Algiers	Algeria	2,364,230
24	Lubumbashi	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2,221,925
25	Lusaka	Zambia	2,212,301
26	Lomé	Togo	2,188,376
27	Port Harcourt	Nigeria	2,120,000
28	Pretoria	South Africa	2,112,693
29	Mbuji-Mayi	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2,101,332
30	Brazzaville	Republic of the Congo	1,982,000

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Sources: place names, coordinates, populations and time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0, data retrieved October 2026). Population figures are the latest values recorded in GeoNames; depending on the country they refer to the city proper, a municipality or a wider urban area, so they can differ from census or metro-area figures. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.