Region
Africa
56 countries and territories
56
Countries
1.53B
Population
28.0M km²
Total Area
$2.8T
GDP
About Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest continent, home to 54 countries and over 1.4 billion people. It features diverse landscapes from the Sahara Desert to tropical rainforests, and economies ranging from rapidly developing to some of the world's poorest.
The most populous country is Nigeria with 244.3M people, while the largest economy is South Africa with a GDP of $400B.
All Countries in Africa
Algeria
47.7M people · Algiers
Angola
39.0M people · Luanda
Benin
15.2M people · Porto-Novo
Botswana
2.5M people · Gaborone
Burkina Faso
23.5M people · Ouagadougou
Burundi
13.6M people · Gitega
Côte d'Ivoire
31.9M people · Yamoussoukro
Cabo Verde
611K people · Praia
Cameroon
31.5M people · Yaounde
Central African Republic
5.8M people · Bangui
Chad
19.7M people · N'Djamena
Comoros
912K people · Moroni
Congo (Brazzaville)
6.1M people · Brazzaville
Djibouti
1.0M people · Djibouti
DRC
119.0M people · Kinshasa
Egypt
112.9M people · Cairo
Equatorial Guinea
1.8M people · Malabo
Eritrea
6.4M people · Asmara
Eswatini
1.1M people · Mbabane
Ethiopia
121.4M people · Addis Ababa
Gabon
2.5M people · Libreville
Ghana
35.3M people · Accra
Guinea
14.4M people · Conakry
Guinea-Bissau
2.1M people · Bissau
Kenya
55.8M people · Nairobi
Lesotho
2.2M people · Maseru
Liberia
5.6M people · Monrovia
Libya
7.4M people · Tripoli
Madagascar
31.3M people · Antananarivo
Malawi
21.8M people · Lilongwe
Mali
22.6M people · Bamako
Mauritania
5.2M people · Nouakchott
Mauritius
1.3M people · Port Louis
Morocco
37.4M people · Rabat
Mozambique
34.2M people · Maputo
Namibia
2.9M people · Windhoek
Niger
27.3M people · Niamey
Nigeria
244.3M people · Abuja
Rwanda
13.6M people · Kigali
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
8K people · Jamestown
Sao Tome and Principe
224K people · Sao Tome
Senegal
18.8M people · Dakar
Seychelles
98K people · Victoria
Sierra Leone
9.3M people · Freetown
Somalia
20.3M people · Mogadishu
South Africa
61.1M people · Pretoria
South Sudan
12.7M people · Juba
Sudan
50.5M people · Khartoum
Tanzania
69.1M people · Dodoma
The Gambia
2.5M people · Banjul
Togo
9.1M people · Lome
Tunisia
12.0M people · Tunis
Uganda
50.9M people · Kampala
Western Sahara
652K people
Zambia
22.0M people · Lusaka
Zimbabwe
17.5M people · Harare