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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.[1] With more than 900 million people (as of 2005)[2] 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. There are 46 countries including Madagascar, and 53 including all the island groups.

Name (official name) Flag Capital Currency Language Area (km²) Population GDP per capita (PPP) Map
Algeria (People's Democratic Republic of Algeria) Algeria Algiers Algerian dinar Arabic 2,381,740 33,333,216 $7,700
Angola (Republic of Angola) Angola Luanda Kwanza Portuguese 1,246,700 15,941,000 $2,813
Benin (Republic of Benin) Benin Porto Novo West African CFA franc French 112,622 8,439,000 $1,176
Botswana (Republic of Botswana) Botswana Gaborone Pula English, Tswana 581,726 1,639,833 $11,400
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso Ouagadougou West African CFA franc French 274,000 13,228,000 $1,284
Burundi (Republic of Burundi) Burundi Bujumbura Burundi franc Kirundi, French 27,830 7,548,000 $739
Cameroon (Republic of Cameroon) Cameroon Yaoundé Central African CFA franc French, English 475,442 17,795,000 $2,421
Canary Islands[3] Canary Islands Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Santa Cruz de Tenerife Euro Spanish 7,447 2,118,519 N/A
Cape Verde (Republic of Cape Verde) Cape Verde Praia Cape Verdean escudo Portuguese 4,033 420,979 $6,418
Central African Republic (Central African Republic) Central African Republic Bangui Central African CFA franc Sango, French 622,984 4,216,666 $1,198
Ceuta[3] Ceuta Ceuta Euro Spanish 19 80,579 N/A
Chad (Republic of Chad) Chad N'Djamena Central African CFA franc French, Arabic 1,284,000 10,146,000 $1,519
Comoros (Union of the Comoros) Comoros Moroni Comorian franc Comorian, Arabic, French 2,235 798,000 $1,660
Côte d'Ivoire (Republic of Côte d'Ivoire) Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro
Abidjan
West African CFA franc French 322,460 17,654,843 $1,600
Democratic Republic of the Congo[4] (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 Djibouti Djiboutian Franc Arabic, French 23,200 496,374 $2,070
Egypt[5] (Arab Republic of Egypt) Egypt Cairo Egyptian Pound Arabic 1,001,449 80,335,036 $4,836
Equatorial Guinea (Republic of Equatorial Guinea) Equatorial Guinea Malabo Central African CFA franc Spanish, French, Portuguese 28,051 504,000 $50,200
Eritrea (State of Eritrea) Eritrea Asmara Nakfa None at national level 117,600 4,401,000 $1,000
Ethiopia (Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia) Ethiopia Addis Ababa Birr Amharic 1,104,300 75,067,000 $823
Gabon (Gabonese Republic) Gabon Libreville Central African CFA franc French 267,668 1,384,000 $7,055
Gambia (Republic of The Gambia) The Gambia Banjul Dalasi English 10,380 1,517,000 $2002
Ghana (Republic of Ghana) Ghana Accra Ghanaian cedi English 238,534 23,000,000 $2,700
Guinea (Republic of Guinea) Guinea Conakry Guinean franc French 245,857 9,402,000 $2,035
Guinea-Bissau (Republic of Guinea-Bissau) Guinea-Bissau Bissau West African CFA franc Portuguese 36,125 1,586,000 $736
Kenya (Republic of Kenya) Kenya Nairobi Kenyan shilling Swahili, English 580,367 34,707,817 $1,445
Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho) Lesotho Maseru Loti Sesotho, English 30,355 1,795,000 $2,113
Liberia (Republic of Liberia) Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar English 111,369 3,283,000 $1,003
Libya (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) Libya Tripoli Libyan dinar Arabic 1,759,540 6,036,914 $12,700
Madagascar (Republic of Madagascar) Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy ariary Malagasy, French, English 587,041 18,606,000 $905
Madeira[6] Madeira Funchal Euro Portuguese 801 245,806 N/A
Malawi (Republic of Malawi) Malawi Lilongwe Malawian kwacha English, Chichewa 118,484 12,884,000 $596
Mali (Republic of Mali) Mali Bamako West African CFA franc French 1,240,192 13,518,000 $1,154
Mauritania (Islamic Republic of Mauritania) Mauritania Nouakchott Mauritanian ouguiya Arabic, French 1,030,700 3,069,000 $2,402
Mauritius (Republic of Mauritius) Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian rupee English 2,040 1,219,220 $13,703
Mayotte[7] Mayotte Mamoudzou Euro French 374 186,452 2,600
Melilla[3] (Autonomous City of Melilla) Melilla N/A Euro Spanish 13 76,034 N/A
Morocco (Kingdom of Morocco) Morocco Rabat Moroccan dirham Arabic, French 446,550 33,757,175 $4,600
Mozambique (Republic of Mozambique) Mozambique Maputo Mozambican metical Portuguese 801,590 20,366,795 $1,389
Namibia (Republic of Namibia) Namibia Windhoek Namibian dollar English 825,418 2,031,000 $7,478
Niger ( Republic of Niger) Niger Niamey West African CFA franc French 1,267,000 13,957,000 $872
Nigeria (Federal Republic of Nigeria) Nigeria Abuja Nigerian naira English 923,768 133,530,000 $1,188
Republic of the Congo[8] (Republic of the Congo) Republic of the Congo Brazzaville Central African CFA franc French 342,000 3,999,000 $1,369
Réunion[7] Réunion Saint-Denis Euro French 2,512 793,000 N/A
Rwanda (Republic of Rwanda) Rwanda Kigali Rwandan franc Kinyarwanda, French, English 26,798 7,600,000 $1,300
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[9] Western Sahara El Aaiún (Moroccan), Bir Lehlou (temporary)[10] Moroccan dirham Arabic 267,405 266,000 N/A
Saint Helena 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 and Príncipe São Tomé São Tomé and Príncipe Dobra Portuguese 964 157,000 $1,266
Senegal (Republic of Senegal) Senegal Dakar West African CFA franc French 196,723 11,658,000 $1,759
Seychelles (Republic of Seychelles) Seychelles Victoria Seychellois rupee English, French, Seychellois Creole 451 80,654 $11,818
Sierra Leone (Republic of Sierra Leone) Sierra Leone Freetown Leone English 71,740 6,144,562 $903
Somalia (Somali Republic) Somalia Mogadishu Somali shilling Somali 637,661 17,700,000 $2,941
South Africa (Republic of South Africa) 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) Sudan Khartoum Sudanese pound Arabic, English 1,886,068 36,992,490 $2,522
Swaziland (Kingdom of Swaziland) Eswatini Lobamba (royal and legislative)
Mbabane (administrative)
Lilangeni English, Swati 17,364 1,032,000 $5,245
Tanzania (United Republic of Tanzania) Tanzania Dar es Salaam (traditional capital)
Dodoma (legislative)
Tanzanian shilling Swahili 945,087 37,849,133 $723
Togo (Togolese Republic) Togo Lomé West African CFA franc French 56,785 6,100,000 $1,700
Tunisia (Tunisian Republic) Tunisia Tunis Tunisian dinar Arabic 163,610 10,102,000 $8,800
Uganda ( Republic of Uganda) Uganda Kampala Ugandan shilling English, Swahili 236,040 27,616,000 $1,700
Zambia (Republic of Zambia) Zambia Lusaka Zambian kwacha English 752,614 11,668,000 $931
Zimbabwe (Republic of Zimbabwe) Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwean dollar English 390,757 13,010,000 $2,607

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Sayre, April Pulley. (1999) Africa, Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 0-7613-1367-2.
  2. ^ "World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision" United Nations (Department of Economic and Social Affairs, population division)
  3. ^ a b c Autonomous community of Spain
  4. ^ Also known as Congo-Kinshasa and formerly as Zaire.
  5. ^ Some territory could be argued to be a part of Asia or Africa.
  6. ^ Autonomous Region of Portugal.
  7. ^ a b Overseas departments and territories of France.
  8. ^ Also known as Congo-Brazzaville.
  9. ^ Not fully internationally recognised. Also known as Western Sahara.
  10. ^ Currenlty under Moroccan administration. Bir Lehlou is the temporary capital and Tindouf Camps is the de facto one

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