List of African countries and dependencies

Published on Thursday, October 5th 2006. Edited by Spy Skizoojig, Jinan, China.

This is a list of African countries and dependencies, including the respective capitals, languages, currencies, population, area and GDP per capita (dependencies are listed with a blue background).

Africa is the world’s second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30,221,532 km² (11,668,545 sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth’s total surface area, and 20.4% of the total land area. With more than 900 million people (as of 2005) in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14% of the world’s human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

Name (official name) Flag Capital Currency Languages Area (km²) Population GDP per capita (PPP) Map

Algeria (People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria) Algiers Algerian dinar Arabic 2,381,740 33,333,216 $7,700 3

Angola (Republic of Angola) Luanda Kwanza Portuguese 1,246,700 15,941,000 $2,813 40

Benin (Republic of Benin) Porto Novo West African CFA franc French 112,622 8,439,000 $1,176 24

Botswana (Republic of Botswana) Gaborone Pula English, Tswana 581,726 1,639,833 $11,400 46

Burkina Faso Ouagadougou West African CFA franc French 274,000 13,228,000 $1,284 21

Burundi (Republic of Burundi) Bujumbura Burundi franc Kirundi, French 27,830 7,548,000 $739 38

Cameroon (Republic of Cameroon) Yaoundé Central African CFA franc French, English 475,442 17,795,000 $2,421 26

Canary Islands Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife Euro Spanish 7,447 1,995,833 N/A 6

Cape Verde (Republic of Cape Verde) Praia Cape Verdean escudo Portuguese 4,033 420,979 $6,418 14a

Central African Republic (Central African Republic) Bangui Central African CFA franc Sango, French 622,984 4,216,666 $1,198 27

Ceuta Ceuta Euro Spanish 28 76,861 N/A 2a

Chad (Republic of Chad) N'Djamena Central African CFA franc French, Arabic 1,284,000 10,146,000 $1,519 11

Comoros (Union of the Comoros) Moroni Comorian franc Comorian, Arabic, French 2,235 798,000 $1,660 43a

Côte d'Ivoire (Republic of Côte d'Ivoire) Yamoussoukro Abidjan West African CFA franc French 322,460 17,654,843 $1,600 20

Democratic Republic of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Kinshasa Congolese franc French 2,344,858 63,655,000 $774 34

Djibouti (Republic of Djibouti) Djibouti Djiboutian Franc Arabic, French 23,200 496,374 $2,070 29

Egypt (Arab Republic of Egypt) Cairo Egyptian Pound Arabic 1,001,449 80,335,036 $4,836 5

Equatorial Guinea (Republic of Equatorial Guinea) Malabo Central African CFA franc Spanish, French, Portuguese 28,051 504,000 $50,200 31

Eritrea (State of Eritrea) Asmara Nakfa None at national level 117,600 4,401,000 $1,000 13

Ethiopia (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia) Addis Ababa Birr Amharic 1,104,300 75,067,000 $823 28

Gabon (Gabonese Republic) Libreville Central African CFA franc French 267,668 1,384,000 $7,055 32

Gambia (Republic of The Gambia) Banjul Dalasi English 10,380 1,517,000 $2002 15

Ghana (Republic of Ghana) Accra Ghanaian cedi English 238,534 23,000,000 $2,700 22

Guinea (Republic of Guinea) Conakry Guinean franc French 245,857 9,402,000 $2,035 17

Guinea-Bissau (Republic of Guinea-Bissau) Bissau West African CFA franc Portuguese 36,125 1,586,000 $736 16

Kenya (Republic of Kenya) Nairobi Kenyan shilling Swahili, English 580,367 34,707,817 $1,445 36

Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho) Maseru Loti Sesotho, English 30,355 1,795,000 $2,113 49

Liberia (Republic of Liberia) Monrovia Liberian dollar English 111,369 3,283,000 $1,003 19

Libya (Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) Tripoli Libyan dinar Arabic 1,759,540 6,036,914 $12,700 4

Madagascar (Republic of Madagascar) Antananarivo Malagasy ariary Malagasy, French, English 587,041 18,606,000 $905 44

Madeira Funchal Euro Portuguese 828 245,806 N/A 1

Malawi (Republic of Malawi) Lilongwe Malawian kwacha English, Chichewa 118,484 12,884,000 $596 42

Mali (Republic of Mali) Bamako West African CFA franc French 1,240,192 13,518,000 $1,154 9

Mauritania (Islamic Republic of Mauritania) Nouakchott Mauritanian ouguiya Arabic, French 1,030,700 3,069,000 $2,402 8

Mauritius (Republic of Mauritius) Port Louis Mauritian rupee English 2,040 1,219,220 $13,703 44a

Mayotte Mamoudzou Euro French 374 186,452 2,600 43b

Melilla (Autonomous City of Melilla) N/A Euro Spanish 20 72,000 N/A 2b

Morocco (Kingdom of Morocco) Rabat Moroccan dirham Arabic, French 446,550 33,757,175 $4,600 2

Mozambique (Republic of Mozambique) Maputo Mozambican metical Portuguese 801,590 20,366,795 $1,389 43

Namibia (Republic of Namibia) Windhoek Namibian dollar English 825,418 2,031,000 $7,478 45

Niger ( Republic of Niger) Niamey West African CFA franc French 1,267,000 13,957,000 $872 10

Nigeria (Federal Republic of Nigeria) Abuja Nigerian naira English 923,768 133,530,000 $1,188 25

Republic of the Congo (Republic of the Congo) Brazzaville Central African CFA franc French 342,000 3,999,000 $1,369 33

Réunion Saint-Denis Euro French 2,512 793,000 N/A 44b

Rwanda (Republic of Rwanda) Kigali Rwandan franc Kinyarwanda, French, English 26,798 7,600,000 $1,300 37

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic El Aaiún (Moroccan), Bir Lehlou (temporary) Moroccan dirham Arabic 267,405 266,000 N/A 7

Saint Helena Jamestown Saint Helenian pound English 3,926 420 N/A 40b

São Tomé and Príncipe (Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe) São Tomé São Tomé and Príncipe Dobra Portuguese 964 157,000 $1,266 31a

Senegal (Republic of Senegal) Dakar West African CFA franc French 196,723 11,658,000 $1,759 14

Seychelles (Republic of Seychelles) Victoria Seychellois rupee English, French, Seychellois Creole 451 80,654 $11,818 39a

Sierra Leone (Republic of Sierra Leone) Freetown Leone English 71,740 6,144,562 $903 18

Somalia (Somali Republic) Mogadishu Somali shilling Somali 637,661 17,700,000 $2,941 30

South Africa (Republic of South Africa) Pretoria (executive) Bloemfontein (judicial) Cape Town (legislative)

South African rand Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu 1,221,037 47,432,000 $12,161 48

Sudan (Republic of Sudan) Khartoum Sudanese pound Arabic, English 2,505,813 36,992,490 $2,522 12

Swaziland (Kingdom of Swaziland) Lobamba (royal and legislative) Mbabane (administrative) Lilangeni English, Swati 17,364 1,032,000 $5,245 50

Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania) Dar es Salaam (traditional capital) Dodoma (legislative) Tanzanian shilling Swahili 945,087 37,849,133 $723 39

Togo (Togolese Republic) Lomé West African CFA franc French 56,785 6,100,000 $1,700 23

Tunisia (Tunisian Republic) Tunis Tunisian dinar Arabic 163,610 10,102,000 $8,800 3

Uganda ( Republic of Uganda) Kampala Ugandan shilling English, Swahili 236,040 27,616,000 $1,700 35

Zambia (Republic of Zambia) Lusaka Zambian kwacha English 752,614 11,668,000 $931 41

Zimbabwe (Republic of Zimbabwe) Harare Zimbabwean dollar English 390,757 13,010,000 $2,607 47

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