African Countries with their Capitals
Last Updated :
18 Aug, 2022
In SSC, Banking, LIC, Railways, and other competitive exams, the General Awareness section plays an important role nowadays since it is a very scoring section. In this article, we will cover one of the topics of this section i.e “Countries and their Capitals”. This is a very easy topic and if students read it comprehensively they with do well in this section.
Africa: An Introduction
- Africa is the hottest continent in the world and the second driest continent in the world.
- Africa is the second largest continent on Earth, accounting for approximately 22% of the Earth’s total land area and 6% of the Earth’s total land area.
- Africa is the second most populous continent in the world with more than 1.1 billion people or about 16% of the world’s population. Asia is the most populous continent with more than 4.4 billion people or 59% of the world population.
- Africa is the poorest and least developed continent in the world. Of the 40% of illiterate people in Africa, 2/3 are women.
- More than half of Africa’s population is under the age of 25, making it the youngest population in the world.
- In Africa, more than 25 million people are infected with HIV and more than 17 million have already died from the disease. Of all malaria cases worldwide, 90% occur in Africa.
- Deforestation rates in Africa are twice those in the rest of the world. Kenya and Zambia have only about 1-5% of the remaining primary forest.
- Africa is home to more than 25% of the world’s bird species.
- More than a thousand languages ​​are spoken in Africa.
List of African Countries and their Capitals:
Serial No.
|
Country
|
Capital
|
1 |
Algeria |
Algiers |
2 |
Egypt |
Cairo |
3 |
Libya |
Tripoli |
4 |
Morocco |
Rabat |
5 |
Sudan |
Khartoum |
6 |
Tunisia |
Tunis |
7 |
Burundi |
Gitega |
8 |
Comoros |
Moroni |
9 |
Djibouti |
Djibouti |
10 |
Eritrea |
Asmara |
11 |
Ethiopia |
Addis Ababa |
12 |
Kenya |
Nairobi |
13 |
Madagascar |
Antananarivo |
14 |
Malawi |
Lilongwe |
15 |
Mauritius |
Port Louis |
16 |
Mozambique |
Maputo |
17 |
Rwanda |
Kigali |
18 |
Somalia Mogadishu |
Mogadishu |
19 |
South Sudan Juba |
Juba |
20 |
Tanzania Dodoma |
Dodoma |
21 |
Seychelles |
Victoria |
22 |
Uganda |
Kampala |
24 |
Zambia |
Lusaka |
25 |
Zimbabwe |
Harare |
26 |
Angola |
Luanda |
27 |
Cameroon |
Yaounde |
28 |
Central African Republic |
Bangui |
29 |
Chad |
N’Djamena |
30 |
Botswana |
Gaborone |
31 |
Burkina Faso |
Ouagadougou |
32 |
Cabo Verde |
Praia |
33 |
Congo, The Democratic Republic |
Kinshasa |
34 |
Congo Republic |
Brazzaville |
35 |
Cote d’Ivoire |
Yamoussoukro |
36 |
Equatorial Guinea |
Malabo |
37 |
Eswatini(Swaziland) |
Mbabane |
38 |
Gabon |
Libreville |
39 |
Gambia |
Banjul |
40 |
Ghana |
Accra |
41 |
Guinea |
Conakry |
42 |
Guinea-Bissau |
Bissau |
43 |
Lesotho |
Maseru |
44 |
Liberia |
Monrovia |
45 |
Mali |
Bamako |
46 |
Mauritania |
Nouakchott |
47 |
Namibia |
Windhoek |
48 |
Niger |
Niamey |
49 |
Nigeria |
Abuja |
50 |
Sao Tome and Principe |
Sao Tome |
51 |
Senegal |
Dakar |
52 |
Sierra Leone |
Free Town |
53 |
South Africa |
Pretoria |
54 |
Togo |
Lome |
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