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Largest city of each country in Africa

55 cities, each one drawn on a satellite globe. Name it when it lights up, find it when you are given its name, or type every one you can remember in Name all.

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The cities

  1. 1Cairo23.2 M
  2. 2Lagos21.9 M
  3. 3Kinshasa16.9 M
  4. 4Johannesburg15.1 M
  5. 5Luanda10.4 M
  6. 6Khartoum7.4 M
  7. 7Abidjan7.3 M
  8. 8Nairobi7.2 M
  9. 9Accra7.1 M
  10. 10Dar es Salaam6.9 M
  11. 11Bamako6 M
  12. 12Kampala5.4 M
  13. 13Addis Ababa5 M
  14. 14Casablanca4.5 M
  15. 15Algiers4.4 M
  16. 16Dakar4.4 M
  17. 17Conakry4 M
  18. 18Douala4 M
  19. 19Ouagadougou3.6 M
  20. 20Antananarivo3.3 M
  21. 21Lusaka3.1 M
  22. 22Tunis2.8 M
  23. 23Lomé2.7 M
  24. 24Harare2.7 M
  25. 25Maputo2.7 M
  26. 26Brazzaville2.6 M
  27. 27Mogadishu2.3 M
  28. 28Cotonou2.2 M
  29. 29Kigali2.1 M
  30. 30N'Djamena2 M
  31. 31Monrovia2 M
  32. 32Tripoli1.9 M
  33. 33Bangui1.7 M
  34. 34Niamey1.6 M
  35. 35Nouakchott1.6 M
  36. 36Freetown1.5 M
  37. 37Bujumbura1.3 M
  38. 38Lilongwe1.3 M
  39. 39Banjul1.2 M
  40. 40Asmara1.1 M
  41. 41Libreville917 k
  42. 42Bata790 k
  43. 43Djibouti735 k
  44. 44Bissau674 k
  45. 45Nimule665 k
  46. 46Port Louis557 k
  47. 47Windhoek418 k
  48. 48Las Palmas de Gran Canaria378 k
  49. 49Gaborone299 k
  50. 50Maseru297 k
  51. 51Fomboni236 k
  52. 52João Teves161 k
  53. 53São Tomé155 k
  54. 54Funchal135 k
  55. 55Manzini93 k

Population of the metro area: the city and the places continuously built up around it, as Thomas Brinkhoff’s Major Agglomerations of the World (citypopulation.de) counts them from censuses projected to 1 January 2026, the list most rankings use. It covers every agglomeration of 1 million or more; a smaller city ranks by its GHSL urban centre (2025), or by its city-proper figure where GHSL’s centre is far larger than the list allows. A city inside another city’s metro area (Giza in Cairo’s, Pretoria in Johannesburg’s) is not ranked on its own. One per group: the largest city of each country by this measure, then ranked together. Sources: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), GHSL UCDB R2024A (CC BY 4.0), Thomas Brinkhoff: Major Agglomerations of the World, citypopulation.de, Wikidata names (CC0).

On the map

Map of Largest city of each country in Africa, 55 cities: each one marked on the globe

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