Africa Countries

54 countries in the quiz belong to Africa, spanning 5 subregions: Eastern Africa, Middle Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa.

Africa is home to 54 countries in this quiz's dataset. About 30% of these countries (16 of 54) have no direct coastline. By area, Algeria is the largest at 2,381,741 km², while Seychelles is the smallest at 452 km². Language-wise, English shows up most often, spoken in 23 of these countries.

Eastern Africa (17 countries)

Burundi Gitega Comoros Moroni Djibouti Djibouti Eritrea Asmara Ethiopia Addis Ababa Kenya Nairobi Madagascar Antananarivo Malawi Lilongwe Mauritius Port Louis Mozambique Maputo Rwanda Kigali Seychelles Victoria Somalia Mogadishu Tanzania Dodoma Uganda Kampala Zambia Lusaka Zimbabwe Harare

Middle Africa (10 countries)

Angola Luanda Cameroon Yaoundé Central African Republic Bangui Chad N'Djamena Congo Brazzaville DR Congo Kinshasa Equatorial Guinea Malabo Gabon Libreville São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé South Sudan Juba

Northern Africa (6 countries)

Algeria Algiers Egypt Cairo Libya Tripoli Morocco Rabat Sudan Khartoum Tunisia Tunis

Southern Africa (5 countries)

Botswana Gaborone Eswatini Lobamba Lesotho Maseru Namibia Windhoek South Africa Pretoria

Western Africa (16 countries)

Benin Porto-Novo Burkina Faso Ouagadougou Cape Verde Praia Gambia Banjul Ghana Accra Guinea Conakry Guinea-Bissau Bissau Ivory Coast Yamoussoukro Liberia Monrovia Mali Bamako Mauritania Nouakchott Niger Niamey Nigeria Abuja Senegal Dakar Sierra Leone Freetown Togo Lomé

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