Africa

Countries: 57 countries
Area of its countries: ≈ 29,892,000 km²
Population of its countries: 1.31B
Largest country: Democratic Republic of the Congo; computed
Most populous country: Nigeria; Natural Earth

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UN subregions

Eastern Africa18
Western Africa17
Middle Africa9
Northern Africa7
Southern Africa5

Spans another continent

Egypt

Natural geography 43

Features spanning several countries of this continent

Straits 1

Mozambique Channel

Gulfs 1

Gulf of Guinea

Bays 2

Lakes 9

Mountain ranges 13

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Witwatersrand

Plateaus 3

Deserts 11

Peninsulas 1

Horn of Africa

Geographic regions 2

Countries 57

Area computed from boundaries · population: Natural Earth estimates

Most populous countries

Countries
				Capital
Algeria	Northern Africa	2,319,293	43,053,054	Algiers
Angola	Middle Africa	1,244,671	31,825,295	Luanda
Benin	Western Africa	116,105	11,801,151	Cotonou
Botswana	Southern Africa	579,137	2,303,697	Gaborone
Burkina Faso	Western Africa	272,627	20,321,378	Ouagadougou
Burundi	Eastern Africa	27,087	11,530,580	Bujumbura
Cabo Verde	Western Africa	3,573	549,935	Praia
Cameroon	Middle Africa	463,872	25,876,380	Yaoundé
Central African Republic	Middle Africa	618,323	4,745,185	Bangui
Chad	Middle Africa	1,266,569	15,946,876	N'Djamena
Comoros	Eastern Africa	1,580	850,886	Moroni
Congo	Middle Africa	345,334	5,380,508	Brazzaville
Côte d'Ivoire	Western Africa	320,934	25,716,544	Abidjan
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Middle Africa	2,324,450	86,790,567	Kinshasa
Djibouti	Eastern Africa	21,619	973,560	Djibouti
Egypt	Northern Africa	1,001,779	100,388,073	Cairo
Equatorial Guinea	Middle Africa	26,525	1,355,986	Malabo
Eritrea	Eastern Africa	123,248	6,081,196	Asmara
eSwatini	Southern Africa	16,962	1,148,130	Mbabane
Ethiopia	Eastern Africa	1,127,096	112,078,730	Addis Ababa
Gabon	Middle Africa	259,500	2,172,579	Libreville
Gambia	Western Africa	10,275	2,347,706	Banjul
Ghana	Western Africa	238,559	30,417,856	Accra
Guinea	Western Africa	243,940	12,771,246	Conakry
Guinea-Bissau	Western Africa	31,931	1,920,922	Bissau
Kenya	Eastern Africa	592,190	52,573,973	Nairobi
Lesotho	Southern Africa	29,991	2,125,268	Maseru
Liberia	Western Africa	95,252	4,937,374	Monrovia
Libya	Northern Africa	1,623,729	6,777,452	Tripoli
Madagascar	Eastern Africa	592,829	26,969,307	Antananarivo
Malawi	Eastern Africa	119,344	18,628,747	Lilongwe
Mali	Western Africa	1,254,119	19,658,031	Bamako
Mauritania	Western Africa	1,035,384	4,525,696	Nouakchott
Mauritius	Eastern Africa	1,874	1,265,711	Port Louis
Morocco	Northern Africa	581,748	36,471,769	Rabat
Mozambique	Eastern Africa	788,105	30,366,036	Maputo
Namibia	Southern Africa	822,547	2,494,530	Windhoek
Niger	Western Africa	1,181,201	23,310,715	Niamey
Nigeria	Western Africa	907,836	200,963,599	Abuja
Rwanda	Eastern Africa	25,273	12,626,950	Kigali
Saint Helena	Western Africa	185	4,534	—
São Tomé and Principe	Middle Africa	981	215,056	São Tomé
Senegal	Western Africa	196,609	16,296,364	Dakar
Seychelles	Eastern Africa	174	97,625	Victoria
Sierra Leone	Western Africa	71,576	7,813,215	Freetown
Somalia	Eastern Africa	471,548	10,192,317	Mogadishu
Somaliland	—	167,804	5,096,159	Hargeisa
South Africa	Southern Africa	1,220,061	58,558,270	Cape Town
South Sudan	Eastern Africa	621,327	11,062,113	Juba
Sudan	Northern Africa	1,856,671	42,813,238	Khartoum
Tanzania	Eastern Africa	941,735	58,005,463	Dar es Salaam
Togo	Western Africa	56,901	8,082,366	Lomé
Tunisia	Northern Africa	156,617	11,694,719	Tunis
Uganda	Eastern Africa	241,474	44,269,594	Kampala
Western Sahara	Northern Africa	90,592	603,253	—
Zambia	Eastern Africa	752,777	17,861,030	Lusaka
Zimbabwe	Eastern Africa	388,994	14,645,468	Harare