Territories and Regions
The countries in this table are categorised according to the scheme for geographic subregions used by the United Nations, and data included are per sources in cross-referenced articles. Where they differ, provisos are clearly indicated.
| Name of region and territory, with flag |
Area (km²) |
Population | Year | Density (per km²) |
Capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastern Africa | |||||
| Burundi | 27,830 | 8,988,091 | 2009 | 323 | Bujumbura |
| Comoros | 2,170 | 752,438 | 2009 | 347 | Moroni |
| Djibouti | 23,000 | 516,055 | 2009 | 22 | Djibouti |
| Eritrea | 121,320 | 5,647,168 | 2009 | 47 | Asmara |
| Ethiopia | 1,127,127 | 84,320,987 | 2012 | 75 | Addis Ababa |
| Kenya | 582,650 | 39,002,772 | 2009 | 66 | Nairobi |
| Madagascar | 587,040 | 20,653,556 | 2009 | 35 | Antananarivo |
| Malawi | 118,480 | 14,268,711 | 2009 | 120 | Lilongwe |
| Mauritius | 2,040 | 1,284,264 | 2009 | 630 | Port Louis |
| Mayotte (France) | 374 | 223,765 | 2009 | 490 | Mamoudzou |
| Mozambique | 801,590 | 21,669,278 | 2009 | 27 | Maputo |
| Réunion (France) | 2,512 | 743,981 | 2002 | 296 | Saint-Denis |
| Rwanda | 26,338 | 10,473,282 | 2009 | 398 | Kigali |
| Seychelles | 455 | 87,476 | 2009 | 192 | Victoria |
| Somalia | 637,657 | 9,832,017 | 2009 | 15 | Mogadishu |
| Tanzania | 945,087 | 41,048,532 | 2009 | 43 | Dodoma |
| Uganda | 236,040 | 32,369,558 | 2009 | 137 | Kampala |
| Zambia | 752,614 | 11,862,740 | 2009 | 16 | Lusaka |
| Zimbabwe | 390,580 | 11,392,629 | 2009 | 29 | Harare |
| Central Africa | |||||
| Angola | 1,246,700 | 12,799,293 | 2009 | 10 | Luanda |
| Cameroon | 475,440 | 18,879,301 | 2009 | 40 | Yaoundé |
| Central African Republic | 622,984 | 4,511,488 | 2009 | 7 | Bangui |
| Chad | 1,284,000 | 10,329,208 | 2009 | 8 | N'Djamena |
| Republic of the Congo | 342,000 | 4,012,809 | 2009 | 12 | Brazzaville |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2,345,410 | 69,575,000 | 2012 | 30 | Kinshasa |
| Equatorial Guinea | 28,051 | 633,441 | 2009 | 23 | Malabo |
| Gabon | 267,667 | 1,514,993 | 2009 | 6 | Libreville |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 1,001 | 212,679 | 2009 | 212 | São Tomé |
| Northern Africa | |||||
| Algeria | 2,381,740 | 34,178,188 | 2009 | 14 | Algiers |
| Canary Islands (Spain) | 7,492 | 2,118,519 | 2010 | 226 | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
| Ceuta (Spain) | 20 | 71,505 | 2001 | 3,575 | — |
| Egypt | 1,001,450 | 82,868,000 | 2012 | 83 | Cairo |
| Libya | 1,759,540 | 6,310,434 | 2009 | 4 | Tripoli |
| Madeira (Portugal) | 797 | 245,000 | 2001 | 307 | Funchal |
| Melilla (Spain) | 12 | 66,411 | 2001 | 5,534 | — |
| Morocco | 446,550 | 34,859,364 | 2009 | 78 | Rabat |
| South Sudan | 619,745 | 8,260,490 | 2008 | 13 | Juba |
| Sudan | 1,861,484 | 30,894,000 | 2008 | 17 | Khartoum |
| Tunisia | 163,610 | 10,486,339 | 2009 | 64 | Tunis |
| Western Sahara | 266,000 | 405,210 | 2009 | 2 | El Aaiún |
| Southern Africa | |||||
| Botswana | 600,370 | 1,990,876 | 2009 | 3 | Gaborone |
| Lesotho | 30,355 | 2,130,819 | 2009 | 70 | Maseru |
| Namibia | 825,418 | 2,108,665 | 2009 | 3 | Windhoek |
| South Africa | 1,219,912 | 51,770,560 | 2011 | 42 | Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Pretoria |
| Swaziland | 17,363 | 1,123,913 | 2009 | 65 | Mbabane |
| Western Africa | |||||
| Benin | 112,620 | 8,791,832 | 2009 | 78 | Porto-Novo |
| Burkina Faso | 274,200 | 15,746,232 | 2009 | 57 | Ouagadougou |
| Cape Verde | 4,033 | 429,474 | 2009 | 107 | Praia |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 322,460 | 20,617,068 | 2009 | 64 | Abidjan, Yamoussoukro |
| Gambia | 11,300 | 1,782,893 | 2009 | 158 | Banjul |
| Ghana | 239,460 | 23,832,495 | 2009 | 100 | Accra |
| Guinea | 245,857 | 10,057,975 | 2009 | 41 | Conakry |
| Guinea-Bissau | 36,120 | 1,533,964 | 2009 | 43 | Bissau |
| Liberia | 111,370 | 3,441,790 | 2009 | 31 | Monrovia |
| Mali | 1,240,000 | 12,666,987 | 2009 | 10 | Bamako |
| Mauritania | 1,030,700 | 3,129,486 | 2009 | 3 | Nouakchott |
| Niger | 1,267,000 | 15,306,252 | 2009 | 12 | Niamey |
| Nigeria | 923,768 | 166,629,000 | 2012 | 180 | Abuja |
| Saint Helena (United Kingdom) | 410 | 7,637 | 2009 | 14 | Jamestown |
| Senegal | 196,190 | 13,711,597 | 2009 | 70 | Dakar |
| Sierra Leone | 71,740 | 6,440,053 | 2009 | 90 | Freetown |
| Togo | 56,785 | 6,019,877 | 2009 | 106 | Lomé |
| Africa Total | 30,368,609 | 1,001,320,281 | 2009 | 33 | |
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