Africa

Africa is the second-largest continent, stretching from the Mediterranean coast across the Sahara and the tropical forests of the Congo Basin to the Cape of Good Hope. The Nile, the Great Rift Valley and Kilimanjaro are among its landmark features.

Our atlas lists 59 countries and areas in Africa, together covering about 30,318,417 km² (11,706,001 sq mi) with roughly 1.55 billion people.

Countries and areas

Largest cities

• Kinshasa · 16.0 million
• Lagos · 15.4 million
• Cairo · 9.6 million
• Johannesburg · 9.4 million
• Abidjan · 6.3 million
• Dar es Salaam · 5.4 million
• Alexandria · 5.3 million
• Kano · 4.9 million
• Cape Town · 4.8 million
• Nairobi · 4.4 million
• Giza · 4.4 million
• Bamako · 4.2 million
• Addis Ababa · 3.9 million
• Casablanca · 3.7 million
• Ibadan · 3.6 million
• Durban · 3.3 million
• Luanda · 2.8 million
• Abuja · 2.7 million
• Dakar · 2.6 million
• Mogadishu · 2.6 million
• Kumasi · 2.5 million
• Ouagadougou · 2.4 million
• Algiers · 2.4 million
• Lubumbashi · 2.2 million

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