List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa
Related subjects: African Geography
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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 |  |
| Angola (Republic of Angola) |  |
Luanda | Kwanza | Portuguese | 1,246,700 | 15,941,000 | $2,813 |  |
| Benin (Republic of Benin) |  |
Porto Novo | West African CFA franc | French | 112,622 | 8,439,000 | $1,176 |  |
| Botswana (Republic of Botswana) |  |
Gaborone | Pula | English, Tswana | 581,726 | 1,639,833 | $11,400 |  |
| Burkina Faso |  |
Ouagadougou | West African CFA franc | French | 274,000 | 13,228,000 | $1,284 |  |
| Burundi (Republic of Burundi) |  |
Bujumbura | Burundi franc | Kirundi, French | 27,830 | 7,548,000 | $739 |  |
| Cameroon (Republic of Cameroon) |  |
Yaoundé | Central African CFA franc | French, English | 475,442 | 17,795,000 | $2,421 |  |
| Canary Islands |  |
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Euro | Spanish | 7,447 | 1,995,833 | N/A |  |
| Cape Verde (Republic of Cape Verde) |  |
Praia | Cape Verdean escudo | Portuguese | 4,033 | 420,979 | $6,418 |  |
| Central African Republic (Central African Republic) |  |
Bangui | Central African CFA franc | Sango, French | 622,984 | 4,216,666 | $1,198 |  |
| Ceuta |  |
Ceuta | Euro | Spanish | 28 | 76,861 | N/A |  |
| Chad (Republic of Chad) |  |
N'Djamena | Central African CFA franc | French, Arabic | 1,284,000 | 10,146,000 | $1,519 |  |
| Comoros (Union of the Comoros) |  |
Moroni | Comorian franc | Comorian, Arabic, French | 2,235 | 798,000 | $1,660 |  |
| Côte d'Ivoire (Republic of Côte d'Ivoire) |  |
Yamoussoukro Abidjan |
West African CFA franc | French | 322,460 | 17,654,843 | $1,600 |  |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) |  |
Kinshasa | Congolese franc | French | 2,344,858 | 63,655,000 | $774 |  |
| Djibouti (Republic of Djibouti) |  |
Djibouti | Djiboutian Franc | Arabic, French | 23,200 | 496,374 | $2,070 |  |
| Egypt (Arab Republic of Egypt) |  |
Cairo | Egyptian Pound | Arabic | 1,001,449 | 80,335,036 | $4,836 |  |
| Equatorial Guinea (Republic of Equatorial Guinea) |  |
Malabo | Central African CFA franc | Spanish, French, Portuguese | 28,051 | 504,000 | $50,200 |  |
| Eritrea (State of Eritrea) |  |
Asmara | Nakfa | None at national level | 117,600 | 4,401,000 | $1,000 |  |
| Ethiopia (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia) |  |
Addis Ababa | Birr | Amharic | 1,104,300 | 75,067,000 | $823 |  |
| Gabon (Gabonese Republic) |  |
Libreville | Central African CFA franc | French | 267,668 | 1,384,000 | $7,055 |  |
| Gambia (Republic of The Gambia) |  |
Banjul | Dalasi | English | 10,380 | 1,517,000 | $2002 |  |
| Ghana (Republic of Ghana) |  |
Accra | Ghanaian cedi | English | 238,534 | 23,000,000 | $2,700 |  |
| Guinea (Republic of Guinea) |  |
Conakry | Guinean franc | French | 245,857 | 9,402,000 | $2,035 |  |
| Guinea-Bissau (Republic of Guinea-Bissau) |  |
Bissau | West African CFA franc | Portuguese | 36,125 | 1,586,000 | $736 |  |
| Kenya (Republic of Kenya) |  |
Nairobi | Kenyan shilling | Swahili, English | 580,367 | 34,707,817 | $1,445 |  |
| Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho) |  |
Maseru | Loti | Sesotho, English | 30,355 | 1,795,000 | $2,113 |  |
| Liberia (Republic of Liberia) |  |
Monrovia | Liberian dollar | English | 111,369 | 3,283,000 | $1,003 |  |
| Libya (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) |  |
Tripoli | Libyan dinar | Arabic | 1,759,540 | 6,036,914 | $12,700 |  |
| Madagascar (Republic of Madagascar) |  |
Antananarivo | Malagasy ariary | Malagasy, French, English | 587,041 | 18,606,000 | $905 |  |
| Madeira |  |
Funchal | Euro | Portuguese | 828 | 245,806 | N/A |  |
| Malawi (Republic of Malawi) |  |
Lilongwe | Malawian kwacha | English, Chichewa | 118,484 | 12,884,000 | $596 |  |
| Mali (Republic of Mali) |  |
Bamako | West African CFA franc | French | 1,240,192 | 13,518,000 | $1,154 |  |
| Mauritania (Islamic Republic of Mauritania) |  |
Nouakchott | Mauritanian ouguiya | Arabic, French | 1,030,700 | 3,069,000 | $2,402 |  |
| Mauritius (Republic of Mauritius) |  |
Port Louis | Mauritian rupee | English | 2,040 | 1,219,220 | $13,703 |  |
| Mayotte |  |
Mamoudzou | Euro | French | 374 | 186,452 | 2,600 |  |
| Melilla (Autonomous City of Melilla) |  |
N/A | Euro | Spanish | 20 | 72,000 | N/A |  |
| Morocco (Kingdom of Morocco) |  |
Rabat | Moroccan dirham | Arabic, French | 446,550 | 33,757,175 | $4,600 |  |
| Mozambique (Republic of Mozambique) |  |
Maputo | Mozambican metical | Portuguese | 801,590 | 20,366,795 | $1,389 |  |
| Namibia (Republic of Namibia) |  |
Windhoek | Namibian dollar | English | 825,418 | 2,031,000 | $7,478 |  |
| Niger ( Republic of Niger) |  |
Niamey | West African CFA franc | French | 1,267,000 | 13,957,000 | $872 |  |
| Nigeria (Federal Republic of Nigeria) |  |
Abuja | Nigerian naira | English | 923,768 | 133,530,000 | $1,188 |  |
| Republic of the Congo (Republic of the Congo) |  |
Brazzaville | Central African CFA franc | French | 342,000 | 3,999,000 | $1,369 |  |
| Réunion | |
Saint-Denis | Euro | French | 2,512 | 793,000 | N/A |  |
| Rwanda (Republic of Rwanda) |  |
Kigali | Rwandan franc | Kinyarwanda, French, English | 26,798 | 7,600,000 | $1,300 |  |
| Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic |  |
El Aaiún (Moroccan), Bir Lehlou (temporary) | Moroccan dirham | Arabic | 267,405 | 266,000 | N/A |  |
| Saint Helena |  |
Jamestown | Saint Helenian pound | English | 3,926 | 420 | N/A |  |
| São Tomé and Príncipe (Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe) |  |
São Tomé | São Tomé and Príncipe Dobra | Portuguese | 964 | 157,000 | $1,266 |  |
| Senegal (Republic of Senegal) |  |
Dakar | West African CFA franc | French | 196,723 | 11,658,000 | $1,759 |  |
| Seychelles (Republic of Seychelles) |  |
Victoria | Seychellois rupee | English, French, Seychellois Creole | 451 | 80,654 | $11,818 |  |
| Sierra Leone (Republic of Sierra Leone) |  |
Freetown | Leone | English | 71,740 | 6,144,562 | $903 |  |
| Somalia (Somali Republic) |  |
Mogadishu | Somali shilling | Somali | 637,661 | 17,700,000 | $2,941 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Sudan (Republic of Sudan) |  |
Khartoum | Sudanese pound | Arabic, English | 2,505,813 | 36,992,490 | $2,522 |  |
| Swaziland (Kingdom of Swaziland) |  |
Lobamba (royal and legislative) Mbabane (administrative) |
Lilangeni | English, Swati | 17,364 | 1,032,000 | $5,245 |  |
| Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania) |  |
Dar es Salaam (traditional capital) Dodoma (legislative) |
Tanzanian shilling | Swahili | 945,087 | 37,849,133 | $723 |  |
| Togo (Togolese Republic) |  |
Lomé | West African CFA franc | French | 56,785 | 6,100,000 | $1,700 |  |
| Tunisia (Tunisian Republic) |  |
Tunis | Tunisian dinar | Arabic | 163,610 | 10,102,000 | $8,800 |  |
| Uganda ( Republic of Uganda) |  |
Kampala | Ugandan shilling | English, Swahili | 236,040 | 27,616,000 | $1,700 |  |
| Zambia (Republic of Zambia) |  |
Lusaka | Zambian kwacha | English | 752,614 | 11,668,000 | $931 |  |
| Zimbabwe (Republic of Zimbabwe) |  |
Harare | Zimbabwean dollar | English | 390,757 | 13,010,000 | $2,607 |  |
