Last updated: May 13, 2026

Countries in Africa

African countries in the database.

Showing 58 records from the 250 countries and territories in the database.

Country	Capital	Continent	Population	Area	Currency
Algeria	Algiers	Africa	47.4 million	2,381,741 km²	Algerian dinar
Angola	Luanda	Africa	36.2 million	1,246,700 km²	Angolan kwanza
Benin	Porto-Novo	Africa	13.2 million	112,622 km²	West African CFA franc
Botswana	Gaborone	Africa	2.4 million	582,000 km²	Botswana pula
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	Africa	24.1 million	272,967 km²	West African CFA franc
Burundi	Gitega	Africa	12.3 million	27,834 km²	Burundian franc
Cameroon	Yaoundé	Africa	29.4 million	475,442 km²	Central African CFA franc
Cape Verde	Praia	Africa	491.2 thousand	4,033 km²	Cape Verdean escudo
Central African Republic	Bangui	Africa	6.5 million	622,984 km²	Central African CFA franc
Chad	N'Djamena	Africa	19.3 million	1,284,000 km²	Central African CFA franc
Comoros	Moroni	Africa	919.9 thousand	1,862 km²	Comorian franc
Djibouti	Djibouti	Africa	1.1 million	23,200 km²	Djiboutian franc
DR Congo	Kinshasa	Africa	112.8 million	2,344,858 km²	Congolese franc
Egypt	Cairo	Africa	107.3 million	1,002,450 km²	Egyptian pound
Equatorial Guinea	Ciudad de la Paz	Africa	1.7 million	28,051 km²	Central African CFA franc
Eritrea	Asmara	Africa	3.6 million	117,600 km²	Eritrean nakfa
Eswatini	Mbabane	Africa	1.2 million	17,364 km²	Swazi lilangeni
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Africa	111.7 million	1,104,300 km²	Ethiopian birr
Gabon	Libreville	Africa	2.5 million	267,668 km²	Central African CFA franc
Gambia	Banjul	Africa	2.4 million	10,689 km²	dalasi
Ghana	Accra	Africa	33.7 million	238,533 km²	Ghanaian cedi
Guinea	Conakry	Africa	14.4 million	245,857 km²	Guinean franc
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	Africa	1.8 million	36,125 km²	West African CFA franc
Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	Africa	31.7 million	322,463 km²	West African CFA franc
Kenya	Nairobi	Africa	53.3 million	580,367 km²	Kenyan shilling
Lesotho	Maseru	Africa	2.1 million	30,355 km²	Lesotho loti
Liberia	Monrovia	Africa	5.2 million	111,369 km²	Liberian dollar
Libya	Tripoli	Africa	7.5 million	1,759,540 km²	Libyan dinar
Madagascar	Antananarivo	Africa	31.7 million	587,041 km²	Malagasy ariary
Malawi	Lilongwe	Africa	20.7 million	118,484 km²	Malawian kwacha
Mali	Bamako	Africa	22.4 million	1,240,192 km²	West African CFA franc
Mauritania	Nouakchott	Africa	4.9 million	1,030,700 km²	Mauritanian ouguiya
Mauritius	Port Louis	Africa	1.2 million	2,040 km²	Mauritian rupee
Mayotte	Mamoudzou	Africa	320.9 thousand	374 km²	euro
Morocco	Rabat	Africa	36.8 million	446,550 km²	Moroccan dirham
Mozambique	Maputo	Africa	34.1 million	801,590 km²	Mozambican metical
Namibia	Windhoek	Africa	3 million	825,615 km²	Namibian dollar
Niger	Niamey	Africa	26.3 million	1,267,000 km²	West African CFA franc
Nigeria	Abuja	Africa	223.8 million	923,768 km²	Nigerian naira
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	Africa	6.1 million	342,000 km²	Central African CFA franc
Rwanda	Kigali	Africa	14.1 million	26,338 km²	Rwandan franc
Réunion	Saint-Denis	Africa	896.2 thousand	2,511 km²	euro
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	Jamestown	Africa	5.7 thousand	394 km²	Pound sterling
Senegal	Dakar	Africa	18.6 million	196,722 km²	West African CFA franc
Seychelles	Victoria	Africa	122.7 thousand	452 km²	Seychellois rupee
Sierra Leone	Freetown	Africa	9.1 million	71,740 km²	Leone
Somalia	Mogadishu	Africa	19.7 million	637,657 km²	Somali shilling
South Africa	Pretoria	Africa	63.1 million	1,221,037 km²	South African rand
South Sudan	Juba	Africa	15.8 million	619,745 km²	South Sudanese pound
Sudan	Khartoum	Africa	51.7 million	1,886,068 km²	Sudanese pound
São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	Africa	209.6 thousand	964 km²	São Tomé and Príncipe dobra
Tanzania	Dodoma	Africa	68.2 million	947,303 km²	Tanzanian shilling
Togo	Lomé	Africa	8.1 million	56,785 km²	West African CFA franc
Tunisia	Tunis	Africa	12 million	163,610 km²	Tunisian dinar
Uganda	Kampala	Africa	45.9 million	241,550 km²	Ugandan shilling
Western Sahara	El Aaiún	Africa	600.9 thousand	266,000 km²	Algerian dinar
Zambia	Lusaka	Africa	19.7 million	752,612 km²	Zambian kwacha
Zimbabwe	Harare	Africa	17.1 million	390,757 km²	Zimbabwean dollar

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The database holds 250 country and territory records imported from REST Countries. That count is larger than the number of sovereign states because it includes dependencies and territories.