Countries in Africa

A LIST OF THE COUNTRIES OF AFRICA AND THEIR CAPITALS.

The continent of Africa has fifty-four(54) countries and is the second largest continent in the world. Africa covers about 6% of the world's total surface(including area occupied by water) and about 20% of the world's land surface. The continent of Africa is also the second most populous continent in the world, with a population of about 1.4 billion people. Asia is the only continent with larger population than Africa.
In Africa, Algeria is the largest country by landmass while Nigeria is the largest by population.
It should be noted also that the continent of Africa is divided into five(5) regions namely, East Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa and North Africa.

COUNTRY                               CAPITAL
Algeria                                     Algiers
Angola                                     Luanda
Benin                                       Porto-Novo
                                                  *Cotonou
Botswana                               Gaborone
Burkina Faso                          Ouagadougou
Burundi                                    Gitega
                                                  *Bujumbura
Cape Verde                             Praia
Cameroon                               Yaounde
Central African Republic      Bangui
Chad                                         N'Djamena
Comoros                                 Moroni
Cote d'Ivoire                            Yamoussoukro
                                                 *Abidjan
Dem. Rep. of Congo             Kinshasa
Djibouti                                   Djibouti
Egypt                                        Cairo
Equatorial Guinea                  Malabo
Eritrea                                      Asmara
Eswatini(Swaziland)             Mbabane
                                                 *Lobamba
Ethiopia                                   Addis Ababa
Gabon                                      Libreville
Gambia                                   Banjul
Ghana                                      Accra
Guinea                                   Conakry
Guinea-Bissau                       Bissau
Kenya                                      Nairobi
Lesotho                                   Maseru
Liberia                                     Monrovia
Libya                                       Tripoli
Madagascar                          Antananarivo
Malawi                                  Lilongwe
Mali                                       Bamako
Mauritania                             Nouakchott
Mauritius                             Port Louis
Morocco                                Rabat
Mozambique                        Maputo
Namibia                                  Windhoek
Niger                                    Niamey
Nigeria                                  Abuja
Republic of Congo               Brazzaville
Rwanda                                  Kigali
Sao Tome and Principe      São Tomé
Senegal                               Dakar
Seychelles                          Victoria
Sierra Leone                          Freetown
Somalia                                 Mogadishu
South Africa                       Pretoria (admin.)
                                               *Cape Town (leg.)
                                               *Bloemfontein (jud.)
South Sudan                       Juba
Sudan                                   Khartoum
Tanzania                              Dodoma
                                              *Dar es Salaam
Togo                                     Lomé
Tunisia                                Tunis
Uganda                                Kampala
Zambia                                 Lusaka
Zimbabwe                           Harare

Note- South Africa as shown above has three(3) capitals, Pretoria as the seat of the President, Bloemfontein as the seat of the Judiciary and Cape Town as the seat of the Legislative.
*In Benin Republic, Porto-Novo is the official capital while Cotonou is the seat of government and the judiciary.
*Burundi has Gitega as the official capital while  Bujumbura is the seat of the national executive.
*Côte d'Ivoire has Yamoussoukro as the official capital while Abidjan is the seat of government.
*Eswatini, which was known formerly as Swaziland has Mbabane as the administrative capital while Lobamba is the legislative capital and seat of the king.
*Tanzania as well is recorded as having two(2) capitals, Dodoma and Dar es Salaam.