List of the largest metropolitan areas in Africa

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This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in Africa.

Rank	City	Country	Population (2007)
1	Cairo-Giza	Egypt	15,907,574
2	Lagos	Nigeria	11,615,563
3	Kinshasa-Brazzaville	Democratic Republic of the Congo /  Republic of the Congo	9,575,626
4	Khartoum-Umm Durman-Bahri	Sudan	8,363,915
5	Johannesburg-Soweto	South Africa	7,372,314
6	Algiers	Algeria	5,937,183
7	Abidjan	Côte d'Ivoire	5,317,003
8	Ibadan	Nigeria	4,712,877
9	Cape Town	South Africa	4,709,212
10	Alexandria	Egypt	4,368,095
11	Luanda	Angola	4,040,762
12	Kano	Nigeria	4,033,069
13	Nairobi	Kenya	3,922,110
14	Accra	Ghana	3,554,218
15	Durban	South Africa	3,368,631
16	Casablanca	Morocco	3,209,054
17	Harare-Chitungwiza	Zimbabwe	2,919,512
18	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2,915,979
19	Addis Abeba	Ethiopia	2,888,248
20	Mogadishu	Somalia	2,855,805
21	Dakar	Senegal	2,461,682
22	Lusaka	Zambia	2,389,572
23	Pretoria-Verwoerdburg	South Africa	2,187,172
24	Conakry	Guinea	2,064,236
25	Tunis-Aryanah-at-Tadaman Dawwar Hisar	Tunisia	2,028,662
26	Yaoundé	Cameroon	1,928,882
27	Maputo-Matola	Mozambique	1,926,940
28	Tripoli	Libya	1,894,852
29	Douala	Cameroon	1,834,817
30	Bamako	Mali	1,761,659
31	Monrovia	Liberia	1,751,688
32	Kampala	Uganda	1,735,918
33	Antanarivo	Madagascar	1,733,226
34	Rabat-Salé	Morocco	1,721,760
35	Oshogbo-Ede-Inisa	Nigeria	1,675,704
36	Kaduna	Nigeria	1,652,844
37	Kumasi	Ghana	1,604,909
38	Port Harcourt	Nigeria	1,499,603
39	Lubumbashi	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,485,288
40	N'Djaména-Kousséri	Chad/ Cameroon	1,471,881
41	Kisangani	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,326,778
42	Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage	South Africa	1,319,177
43	Mbuji-Mayi	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,221,333
44	Maiduguri	Nigeria	1,197,497
45	Benin	Nigeria	1,167,327
46	Benghazi	Libya	1,166,063
47	Onitsha-Nnewi-Okpoko-Obosi	Nigeria	1,156,380
48	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	1,152,402
49	Bouaké	Côte d'Ivoire	1,126,623
50	Ogbomosho	Nigeria	1,098,912
51	Asmara	Eritrea	1,091,388
52	Zaria	Nigeria	1,018,927
53	Aba	Nigeria	1,012,762
54	Fes	Morocco	1,001,798

[edit] See also

• World largest cities

[edit] Source

• World Gazeteer

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