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List Of 54 Countries In Africa And Their Capitals

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Your are searching for “Capital of Africa” on the net? Here you are! But your search may not yield you the expected result because Africa is not a country. Africa is one of the seven continents of the world and is made up of 54 different countries. Africa is the 2nd largest continent on the planet and the second most-populous continent in the world after Asia.As you can see, there is nothing called capital of Africa, the search should be “capital of the countries in Africa. Africa is a collection of fifty four individual countries, including Western Sahara, a member state of the African Union but whose statehood is disputed by Morocco.South Sudan is Africa’s newest country after it became an independent state on the 9th of July 2011from Sudan. The current capital of South Sudan is Juba, which is also the largest city in the country. Some people considered Pretoria to be the capital of Africa but this is not the case, it is just the capital of South Africa which is one of the 54 countries in Africa.

Map of Africa showing capital of Africa

Below is the full list of the countries in Africa and their capitals. See if you can locate all the countries on the map and their capitals:

  1. Algeria — Algiers
  2. Angola — Luanda
  3. Benin — Porto-Novo
  4. Botswana — Gaborone
  5. Burkina Faso — Ouagadougou
  6. Burundi — Bujumbura
  7. Cape Verde — Praia
  8. Cameroon — Yaoundé
  9. Central African Republic — Bangui
  10. Chad — N’Djamena
  11. Comoros — Moroni
  12. Congo, Republic — Brazzaville
  13. Congo, Democratic Republic — Kinshasa
  14. Cote d’Ivoire — Abidjan
  15. Djibouti — Djibouti (city)
  16. Egypt — Cairo
  17. Equatorial Guinea — Malabo
  18. Eritrea — Asmara
  19. Ethiopia — Addis Ababa
  20. Gabon — Libreville
  21. Gambia — Banjul
  22. Ghana — Accra
  23. Guinea — Conakry
  24. Guinea-Bissau — Bissau
  25. Kenya — Nairobi
  26. Lesotho — Maseru
  27. Liberia — Monrovia
  28. Libya — Tripoli
  29. Madagascar — Antananarivo
  30. Malawi — Lilongwe
  31. Mali — Bamako
  32. Mauritania — Nouakchott
  33. Mauritius — Port Louis
  34. Morocco — Rabat
  35. Mozambique — Maputo
  36. Namibia — Windhoek
  37. Niger — Niamey
  38. Nigeria — Abuja
  39. Rwanda — Kigali
  40. Sao Tome and Principe — São Tomé
  41. Senegal — Dakar
  42. Seychelles — Victoria
  43. Sierra Leone — Freetown
  44. Somalia — Mogadishu
  45. South Africa — Pretoria (administrative); Cape Town (legislative); Bloemfontein (judicial)
  46. South Sudan — Juba
  47. Sudan — Khartoum
  48. Swaziland — Mbabane
  49. Tanzania — Dodoma
  50. Togo — Lome
  51. Tunisia — Tunis
  52. Uganda — Kampala
  53. Zambia — Lusaka
  54. Zimbabwe — Harare

Now you have it —  all the countries in Africa and their capitals. There is nothing like capital of Africa. So, next time you commit such blunder, you may not be excused.

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