User:Phidauex/Africa
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| Name of region[1] and territory, with flag |
Area (km²) |
Population (1 July 2002 est.) |
Population density (per km²) |
Capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Africa: | ||||
 Burundi |
27,830 | 6,373,002 | 229.0 | Bujumbura |
 Comoros |
2,170 | 614,382 | 283.1 | Moroni |
 Djibouti |
23,000 | 472,810 | 20.6 | Djibouti |
 Eritrea |
121,320 | 4,465,651 | 36.8 | Asmara |
 Ethiopia |
1,127,127 | 67,673,031 | 60.0 | Addis Ababa |
 Kenya |
582,650 | 31,138,735 | 53.4 | Nairobi |
 Madagascar |
587,040 | 16,473,477 | 28.1 | Antananarivo |
 Malawi |
118,480 | 10,701,824 | 90.3 | Lilongwe |
 Mauritius |
2,040 | 1,200,206 | 588.3 | Port Louis |
 Mayotte (France) |
374 | 170,879 | 456.9 | Mamoudzou |
 Mozambique |
801,590 | 19,607,519 | 24.5 | Maputo |
| Réunion (France) |
2,512 | 743,981 | 296.2 | Saint-Denis |
 Rwanda |
26,338 | 7,398,074 | 280.9 | Kigali |
 Seychelles |
455 | 80,098 | 176.0 | Victoria |
 Somalia |
637,657 | 7,753,310 | 12.2 | Mogadishu |
 Tanzania |
945,087 | 37,187,939 | 39.3 | Dodoma |
 Uganda |
236,040 | 24,699,073 | 104.6 | Kampala |
 Zambia |
752,614 | 9,959,037 | 13.2 | Lusaka |
 Zimbabwe |
390,580 | 11,376,676 | 29.1 | Harare |
| Middle Africa: | ||||
 Angola |
1,246,700 | 10,593,171 | 8.5 | Luanda |
 Cameroon |
475,440 | 16,184,748 | 34.0 | Yaoundé |
 Central African Republic |
622,984 | 3,642,739 | 5.8 | Bangui |
 Chad |
1,284,000 | 8,997,237 | 7.0 | N'Djamena |
 Congo |
342,000 | 2,958,448 | 8.7 | Brazzaville |
 Democratic Republic of the Congo |
2,345,410 | 55,225,478 | 23.5 | Kinshasa |
 Equatorial Guinea |
28,051 | 498,144 | 17.8 | Malabo |
 Gabon |
267,667 | 1,233,353 | 4.6 | Libreville |
 São Tomé and Príncipe |
1,001 | 170,372 | 170.2 | São Tomé |
| Northern Africa: | ||||
 Algeria |
2,381,740 | 32,277,942 | 13.6 | Algiers |
 Egypt[2] |
1,001,450 | 70,712,345 | 70.6 | Cairo |
 Libya |
1,759,540 | 5,368,585 | 3.1 | Tripoli |
 Morocco |
446,550 | 31,167,783 | 69.8 | Rabat |
 Sudan |
2,505,810 | 37,090,298 | 14.8 | Khartoum |
 Tunisia |
163,610 | 9,815,644 | 60.0 | Tunis |
 Western Sahara [3] |
266,000 | 256,177 | 1.0 | El Aaiún |
| Southern Europe dependencies in Northern Africa: | ||||
 Canary Islands (Spain)[4] |
7,492 | 1,694,477 | 226.2 | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
 Ceuta (Spain)[5] |
20 | 71,505 | 3,575.2 | — |
 Madeira Islands (Portugal)[6] |
797 | 245,000 | 307.4 | Funchal |
 Melilla (Spain)[7] |
12 | 66,411 | 5,534.2 | — |
| Southern Africa: | ||||
 Botswana |
600,370 | 1,591,232 | 2.7 | Gaborone |
 Lesotho |
30,355 | 2,207,954 | 72.7 | Maseru |
 Namibia |
825,418 | 1,820,916 | 2.2 | Windhoek |
 South Africa |
1,219,912 | 43,647,658 | 35.8 | Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Pretoria[8] |
 Swaziland |
17,363 | 1,123,605 | 64.7 | Mbabane |
| Western Africa: | ||||
 Benin |
112,620 | 6,787,625 | 60.3 | Porto-Novo |
 Burkina Faso |
274,200 | 12,603,185 | 46.0 | Ouagadougou |
 Cape Verde |
4,033 | 408,760 | 101.4 | Praia |
 Côte d'Ivoire |
322,460 | 16,804,784 | 52.1 | Abidjan, Yamoussoukro[9] |
 Gambia |
11,300 | 1,455,842 | 128.8 | Banjul |
 Ghana |
239,460 | 20,244,154 | 84.5 | Accra |
 Guinea |
245,857 | 7,775,065 | 31.6 | Conakry |
 Guinea-Bissau |
36,120 | 1,345,479 | 37.3 | Bissau |
 Liberia |
111,370 | 3,288,198 | 29.5 | Monrovia |
 Mali |
1,240,000 | 11,340,480 | 9.1 | Bamako |
 Mauritania |
1,030,700 | 2,828,858 | 2.7 | Nouakchott |
 Niger |
1,267,000 | 10,639,744 | 8.4 | Niamey |
 Nigeria |
923,768 | 129,934,911 | 140.7 | Abuja |
 Saint Helena (UK) |
410 | 7,317 | 17.8 | Jamestown |
 Senegal |
196,190 | 10,589,571 | 54.0 | Dakar |
 Sierra Leone |
71,740 | 5,614,743 | 78.3 | Freetown |
 Togo |
56,785 | 5,285,501 | 93.1 | Lomé |
| Total | 30,368,609 | 843,705,143 | 27.8 | |
- ^ Continental regions as per UN categorisations/map.
- ^ Egypt is generally considered a transcontinental country in Northern Africa (UN region) and Western Asia; population and area figures are for African portion only, west of the Suez Canal.
- ^ Western Sahara is disputed between the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, who administer a minority of the territory, and Morocco, who occupy the remainder.
- ^ The Spanish Canary Islands, of which Las Palmas de Gran Canaria are Santa Cruz de Tenerife are co-capitals, are often considered part of Northern Africa due to their relative proximity to Morocco and Western Sahara; population and area figures are for 2001.
- ^ The Spanish exclave of Ceuta is surrounded on land by Morocco in Northern Africa; population and area figures are for 2001.
- ^ The Portuguese Madeira Islands are often considered part of Northern Africa due to their relative proximity to Morocco; population and area figures are for 2001.
- ^ The Spanish exclave of Melilla is surrounded on land by Morocco in Northern Africa; population and area figures are for 2001.
- ^ Bloemfontein is the judicial capital of South Africa, while Cape Town is its legislative seat, and Pretoria is the country's administrative seat.
- ^ Yamoussoukro is the official capital of Côte d'Ivoire, while Abidjan is the de facto seat.
