African countries and their capital cities

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Africa is the world’s second largest and second most-populous continent, being behind Asia in both categories. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth’s total surface area and 20% of its land area. With 1.4 billion people, it accounts for about 16% of the world’s human population. Each country has one capital city, where all government functions are carried from. Except, South Africa which has three, Swaziland and Tanzania, both having two.

Here is the list of all African countries and their capital cities.

No.	Country	Capital city
1	Algeria	Algiers
2	Angola	Luanda
3	Benin	Porto-Novo
4	Botswana	Gaborone
5	Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou
6	Burundi	Bujumbura
7	Cameroon	Yaounde
8	The Republic of Cape Verde	Praia
9	The Central African Republic	Bangui
10	Chad	N’Djamena
11	Comoros	Moroni
12	Democratic Republic of Congo	Kinshasa
13	Republic of Congo	Brazzaville
14	Cote d’Ivoire	Yamoussoukro
15	Djibouti	Djibouti
16	Egypt	Cairo
17	Equatorial Guinea	Malabo
18	Eritrea	Asmara
19	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa
20	Gabon	Libreville
21	The 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	São Tomé and Príncipe	Sao Tome
41	Senegal	Dakar
42	Seychelles	Victoria
43	Sierra Leone	Freetown
44	Somalia	Mogadishu
45	South Africa	Pretoria (Executive), Bloemfontein (Judicial), Capetown (Legislative)
46	South Sudan	Juba
47	Sudan	Khartoum
48	Swaziland	Lobamba (royal and legislative), Mbabane (Administrative)
49	Tanzania	Dar es Salaam (Traditional capital), Dodoma (Legislature)
50	Togo	Lomé
51	Tunisia	Tunis
52	Uganda	Kampala
53	Zambia	Lusaka
54	Zimbabwe	Harare