African Countries with their Capitals

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