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Countries of Africa by largest ethnic group

50 countries, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, tell its flag from three others, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The countries

  1. 1Algeria2,381,741 km²
  2. 2Sudan1,886,068 km²
  3. 3Libya1,759,541 km²
  4. 4Chad1,284,000 km²
  5. 5Niger1,267,000 km²
  6. 6Angola1,246,700 km²
  7. 7Mali1,240,192 km²
  8. 8South Africa1,221,037 km²
  9. 9Ethiopia1,104,300 km²
  10. 10Mauritania1,030,700 km²
  11. 11Egypt1,010,408 km²
  12. 12Tanzania947,303 km²
  13. 13Nigeria923,768 km²
  14. 14Namibia825,615 km²
  15. 15Mozambique801,590 km²
  16. 16Zambia752,618 km²
  17. 17South Sudan644,329 km²
  18. 18Somalia637,657 km²
  19. 19Central African Republic622,984 km²
  20. 20Botswana581,737 km²
  21. 21Kenya581,309 km²
  22. 22Cameroon475,442 km²
  23. 23Morocco446,550 km²
  24. 24Zimbabwe390,757 km²
  25. 25Republic of the Congo342,000 km²
  26. 26Côte d'Ivoire322,463 km²
  27. 27Burkina Faso274,200 km²
  28. 28Gabon267,667 km²
  29. 29Guinea245,857 km²
  30. 30Uganda241,038 km²
  31. 31Ghana238,535 km²
  32. 32Senegal196,722 km²
  33. 33Tunisia163,610 km²
  34. 34Malawi118,484 km²
  35. 35Eritrea117,600 km²
  36. 36Benin114,763 km²
  37. 37Liberia111,369 km²
  38. 38Sierra Leone71,740 km²
  39. 39Togo56,785 km²
  40. 40Guinea-Bissau36,125 km²
  41. 41Lesotho30,355 km²
  42. 42Equatorial Guinea28,051 km²
  43. 43Burundi27,834 km²
  44. 44Rwanda26,338 km²
  45. 45Djibouti23,200 km²
  46. 46Eswatini17,364 km²
  47. 47Gambia11,300 km²
  48. 48Cabo Verde4,033 km²
  49. 49Mauritius2,040 km²
  50. 50Seychelles459 km²

Area in km²: standard reference totals including inland water, as in the Countries set. Ethnic groups: the CIA World Factbook’s shares (its latest census or estimate, often years old; countries that do not record ethnicity have none). Where the Factbook counts nationality or country of birth, only the largest entry counts, and only when it is over half the people. A group the Factbook counts together with another (“Mestizo and White”, “Arab-Amazigh”) is neither on its own. Indigenous counts every Indigenous people it names (Maya, Mapuche, Aymara, Māori) together. A majority is over half the people; “5% or more” counts the group’s entries together. Largest ethnic group: the group with the largest share of the people, in the Factbook’s words where the table of groups does not know it (“Kikuyu”); countries without figures are left out. Sources: Wikidata (CC0), Natural Earth 1:50m admin-0.

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Map of Countries of Africa by largest ethnic group, 50 countries: each one marked on the globe

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