Africa.

• Position: IN THE NEWS 2018 - Geographic overview

Africa COUNTRY AREA (SQ MI) URBAN CAPITAL POP. % POPULATION POP. USE %/YEAR Algeria 919,595 71 Algiers 42,220,000 1.7 Angola 481,354 62 Luanda 28,590,000 3.5 Benin 44,310 44 Porto-Novo 11,176,000 2.7 Botswana 224,607 58 Gaborone 2,282,000 1.6 Burkina Faso 104,543 31 Ouagadougou 19,632,000 3.0 Burundi 10,747 12 Bujumbura 10,438,000 3.3 Cameroon 183,920 55 Yaounde 24,995,000 2.6 Cape Verde 1,557 66 Praia 545,000 1.3 Central African 240,324 40 Bangui Republic 4,659,000 2.1 Chad 495,755 23 N'Djamena 14,927,000 1.9 Comoros 719 28 Moroni 814,000 1.6 Congo, Democratic 905,568 43 Kinshasa Rep. 81,549,000 2.4 Congo, Republic 132,047 66 Brazzaville 4,955,000 2.1 Cote d'Ivoire 124,504 55 Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast) 24,432,000 1.8 Djibouti 8,960 77 Djibouti 957,000 2.2 Egypt (6) 384,790 43 Cairo 93,368,000 2.5 Eguatorial Guinea 10,831 40 Malabo 1,293,000 2.4 Eritrea 46,760 23 Asmara 5,919,000 0.9 Ethiopia 410,678 20 Addis Ababa 104,957,000 2.9 Gabon 103,347 87 Libreville 1,990,000 1.9 Gambia 4,491 60 Banjul 2,150,000 2.1 Ghana 92,098 55 Accra 28,799,000 2.2 Guinea 94,926 38 Conakry 11,515,000 2.6 Guinea-Bissau 13,948 50 Bissau 1,861,000 1.9 Kenya 224,961 26 Nairobi 49,700,000 1.7 Lesotho 11,720 28 Maseru 2,233,000 0.3 Liberia 37,420 50 Monrovia 4,732,000 2.5 Libya 647,184 79 Tripoli 6,375,000 1.6 Madagascar 226,756 36 Antananarivo 25,500,000 2.5 Malawi 45,747 16 Lilongwe 18,576,000 3.3 Mali 482,077 41 Bamako 18,859,000 3.0 Mauritania 397,955 60 Nouakchott 4,420,000 2.2 Mauritius 788 41 Port Louis 1,267,000 0.6 Morocco 170,773 60 Rabat 35,142,000 1.0 Mozambique 308,642 33 Maputo 29,669,000 2.5 Namibia 318,772 48 Windhoek 2,485,000 2.0 Niger 489,191 19 Niamey 20,575,000 3.2 Nigeria 356,669 49 Abuja 190,886,000 2.4 Rwanda 10,185 30 Kigali 12,250,000 2.5 Sio Tome 386 67 Sao Tome and Principe 207,000 1.7 Senegal 75,955 44 Dakar 15,756,000 2.4 Seychelles 174 54 Victoria 95,000 0.8 Sierra Leone 27,699 40 Freetown 7,557,000 2.4 Somalia 246,201 40 Mogadishu 14,743,000 2.0 South Africa 471,359 65 Cape Town, 56,523,000 1.0 Pretoria, and Bloemfontein South Sudan 248,777 19 Juba 12,597,000 3.8 Sudan 712,280 35 Khartoum 40,626,000 1.6 Swaziland 6,704 21 Mbabane and 1,367,000 1.1 Lobamba Tanzania 364,963 32 Dar es Salaam 57,474,000 2.8 and Dodoma Togo 21,853 40 Lome 7,798,000 2.6 Tunisia 63,170 68 Tunis 11,454,000 1.0 Uganda 93,263 20 Kampala 42,756,000 3.2 Zambia 290,585 40 Lusaka 16,405,000 2.9 Zimbabwe 150,872 33 Harare 16,598,000 1.6 COUNTRY LANGUAGES POLITICAL...