All Countries in Africa
54sovereign countries in Africa
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The list includes 54 sovereign countries in Africa, sorted by population. Territories and other places appear separately and do not count in the practice quiz. Population and area values use the source years shown with their datasets.
Sovereign countries
| 1 |  | Nigeria | Abuja | 227.9M | 923.8K km² |
| 2 |  | Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 128.7M | 1.1M km² |
| 3 |  | Egypt | Cairo | 114.5M | 1.0M km² |
| 4 |  | DR Congo | Kinshasa | 105.8M | 2.3M km² |
| 5 |  | Tanzania | Dodoma | 66.6M | 947.3K km² |
| 6 |  | South Africa | Pretoria | 63.2M | 1.2M km² |
| 7 |  | Kenya | Nairobi | 55.3M | 580.4K km² |
| 8 |  | Sudan | Khartoum | 50.0M | 1.9M km² |
| 9 |  | Uganda | Kampala | 48.7M | 241.6K km² |
| 10 |  | Algeria | Algiers | 46.2M | 2.4M km² |
| 11 |  | Morocco | Rabat | 37.7M | 446.6K km² |
| 12 |  | Angola | Luanda | 36.7M | 1.2M km² |
| 13 |  | Ghana | Accra | 33.8M | 238.5K km² |
| 14 |  | Mozambique | Maputo | 33.6M | 801.6K km² |
| 15 |  | Madagascar | Antananarivo | 31.2M | 587.0K km² |
| 16 |  | Ivory Coast | Yamoussoukro | 31.2M | 322.5K km² |
| 17 |  | Cameroon | Yaoundé | 28.4M | 475.4K km² |
| 18 |  | Niger | Niamey | 26.2M | 1.3M km² |
| 19 |  | Mali | Bamako | 23.8M | 1.2M km² |
| 20 |  | Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | 23.0M | 273.0K km² |
| 21 |  | Malawi | Lilongwe | 21.1M | 118.5K km² |
| 22 |  | Zambia | Lusaka | 20.7M | 752.6K km² |
| 23 |  | Chad | N'Djamena | 19.3M | 1.3M km² |
| 24 |  | Somalia | Mogadishu | 18.4M | 637.7K km² |
| 25 |  | Senegal | Dakar | 18.1M | 196.7K km² |
| 26 |  | Zimbabwe | Harare | 16.3M | 390.8K km² |
| 27 |  | Guinea | Conakry | 14.4M | 245.9K km² |
| 28 |  | Benin | Porto-Novo | 14.1M | 112.6K km² |
| 29 |  | Rwanda | Kigali | 14.0M | 26.3K km² |
| 30 |  | Burundi | Gitega | 13.7M | 27.8K km² |
| 31 |  | Tunisia | Tunis | 12.2M | 163.6K km² |
| 32 |  | South Sudan | Juba | 11.5M | 619.7K km² |
| 33 |  | Togo | Lomé | 9.3M | 56.8K km² |
| 34 |  | Sierra Leone | Freetown | 8.5M | 71.7K km² |
| 35 |  | Libya | Tripoli | 7.3M | 1.8M km² |
| 36 |  | Republic of the Congo | Brazzaville | 6.2M | 342.0K km² |
| 37 |  | Liberia | Monrovia | 5.5M | 111.4K km² |
| 38 |  | Central African Republic | Bangui | 5.2M | 623.0K km² |
| 39 |  | Mauritania | Nouakchott | 5.0M | 1.0M km² |
| 40 |  | Eritrea | Asmara | 3.5M | 117.6K km² |
| 41 |  | Namibia | Windhoek | 3.0M | 825.6K km² |
| 42 |  | Gambia | Banjul | 2.7M | 10.7K km² |
| 43 |  | Gabon | Libreville | 2.5M | 267.7K km² |
| 44 |  | Botswana | Gaborone | 2.5M | 582.0K km² |
| 45 |  | Lesotho | Maseru | 2.3M | 30.4K km² |
| 46 |  | Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | 2.2M | 36.1K km² |
| 47 |  | Equatorial Guinea | Ciudad de la Paz | 1.8M | 28.1K km² |
| 48 |  | Mauritius | Port Louis | 1.2M | 2.0K km² |
| 49 |  | Eswatini | Mbabane | 1.2M | 17.4K km² |
| 50 |  | Djibouti | Djibouti | 1.2M | 23.2K km² |
| 51 |  | Comoros | Moroni | 850.4K | 1.9K km² |
| 52 |  | Cape Verde | Praia | 522.3K | 4.0K km² |
| 53 |  | São Tomé and Príncipe | São Tomé | 230.9K | 964 km² |
| 54 |  | Seychelles | Victoria | 119.8K | 452 km² |
Territories and other places
| 1 |  | Mayotte | Other place |
| 2 |  | Réunion | Other place |
| 3 |  | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | Other place |
| 4 |  | Western Sahara | Other place |
Questions
How many countries are in Africa?
There are 54 sovereign countries in Africa; territories and other places are listed separately.
What is the largest country in Africa?
Algeria is the largest country in Africa by area, covering approximately 2.38 million km². It surpassed Sudan after South Sudan's independence in 2011.
