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Africa is the second-largest continent in the world in both area and population.
Area: about 30 244 000 km2 (11 700 000 mi2) including its adjacent islands it covers about 20 percent of Earth's total land area.
Population: 885 million human inhabitants, about 20 percent of the world's population.
Highest Point: Mount Kilimanjaro - Uhuru Peak on the volcano Kibo, 5 895 m (19 340 ft) in Tanzania.
Largest Lake: Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza; 68 870 sq. km.
Longest River: Nile; 6 695 km.
Languages of Africa: about thousand languages classified in four major language families:
Afro-Asiatic (e.g. Berber lang), Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo (Bantu), and Khoi-San.

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List of African Countries

(as used by the United Nations when categorising geographic subregions)

Eastern Africa

   
  Country
Population
   Capital City
BDI Burundi 6,200,000   Bujumbura
COM Comoros 727,000   Moroni
DJI Djibouti 700,000   Djibouti
ERI Eritrea 4,400,000   Asmara
ETH Ethiopia 72,400,000   Addis Ababa
KEN Kenya 32,400,000   Nairobi
MDG Madagascar 17,500,000   Antananarivo
MWI Malawi 11,900,000   Lilongwe
MUS Mauritius 1,200,000   Port Louis
MOZ Mozambique 19,200,000   Maputo
FRA Réunion 800,000   Saint-Denis
RWA Rwanda 8,400,000   Kigali
SYC Seychelles 100,000   Victoria
SOM Somalia 8,300,000   Mogadishu
TZA Tanzania 36,100,000   Dar es Salaam
UGA Uganda 26,100,000   Kampala
ZMB Zambia 10,900,000   Lusaka
ZWE Zimbabwe 12,700,000   Harare
 

Central Africa (Middle Africa)

   
  Country Population   Capital City
AGO Angola 13,300,000   Luanda
CMR Cameroon 16,100,000   Yaoundé
CAF Central African Republic 3,700,000   Bangui
TCD Chad 9,500,000   N'Djamena
COG Congo, Rep. (Brazzaville) 3,800,000   Brazzaville
COD Congo, Dem. Rep. (Kinshasa) 58,300,000   Kinshasa
GNQ Equatorial Guinea 500,000   Malabo
GAB Gabon 1,400,000   Libreville
STP São Tomé and Príncipe 200,000   São Tomé
 

Northern Africa

   
  Country Population   Capital City
DZA Algeria 32,300,000   Algiers
EGY Egypt 73,400,000   Cairo
LBY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 5,600,000   Tripoli
MAR Morocco 30,600,000   Rabat
SDN Sudan 39,100,000   Khartoum
TUN Tunisia 10,000,000   Tunis
WestSahara Western Sahara 300,000   ---
 

Southern Africa

   
  Country Population   Capital City
BWA Botswana 1,700,000   Gaborone
LSO Lesotho 1,800,000   Maseru
NAM Namibia 1,900,000   Windhoek
ZAF South Africa 46,900,000   Pretoria
SWZ Swaziland 1,200,000   Mbabane
 

Western Africa

   
  Country Population   Capital City
BEN Benin 7,300,000   Porto-Novo
BFA Burkina Faso 13,600,000   Ouagadougou
CPV Cape Verde 500,000   Praia
CIV Côte d'Ivoire 16,900,000   Yamoussoukro
GMB Gambia, The 1,500,000   Banjul
GHA Ghana 21,400,000   Accra
GIN Guinea 9,200,000   Conakry
GNB Guinea-Bissau 1,500,000   Bissau
LBR Liberia 3,500,000   Monrovia
MLI Mali 13,400,000   Bamako
MRT Mauritania 3,000,000   Nouakchott
NER Niger 12,400,000   Niamey
NGA Nigeria 137,300,000   Abuja
Saint Helena Saint Helena 6,000   Jamestown
SEN Senegal 10,900,000   Dakar
SLE Sierra Leone 5,200,000   Freetown
TGO Togo 5,600,000   Lomé
Source: Population Reference Bureau: 2004 World Population Data Sheet

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