Largest cities in Africa
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City | No | Country | Population | Continent |
Abidjan | 1. | Ivory Coast | 6,321,017 | Africa |
Abobo | 2. | Ivory Coast | 1,340,083 | Africa |
Abuja | 3. | Nigeria | 1,235,880 | Africa |
Accra | 4. | Ghana | 1,963,264 | Africa |
Addis Ababa | 5. | Ethiopia | 2,757,729 | Africa |
Alexandria | 6. | Egypt | 5,263,542 | Africa |
Algiers | 7. | Algeria | 1,977,663 | Africa |
Antananarivo | 8. | Madagascar | 1,391,433 | Africa |
Bamako | 9. | Mali | 1,297,281 | Africa |
Benin City | 10. | Nigeria | 1,782,000 | Africa |
Brazzaville | 11. | Republic of the Congo | 1,284,609 | Africa |
Bulawayo | 12. | Zimbabwe | 1,200,337 | Africa |
Cairo | 13. | Egypt | 9,606,916 | Africa |
Camayenne | 14. | Guinea | 1,871,242 | Africa |
Cape Town | 15. | South Africa | 4,710,000 | Africa |
Casablanca | 16. | Morocco | 3,144,909 | Africa |
Conakry | 17. | Guinea | 1,767,200 | Africa |
Dakar | 18. | Senegal | 2,476,400 | Africa |
Dar es Salaam | 19. | Tanzania | 5,383,728 | Africa |
Douala | 20. | Cameroon | 1,338,082 | Africa |
Durban | 21. | South Africa | 3,120,282 | Africa |
Giza | 22. | Egypt | 4,367,343 | Africa |
Harare | 23. | Zimbabwe | 1,542,813 | Africa |
Ibadan | 24. | Nigeria | 3,649,000 | Africa |
Johannesburg | 25. | South Africa | 5,635,127 | Africa |
Kaduna | 26. | Nigeria | 1,582,102 | Africa |
Kakamega | 27. | Kenya | 1,867,579 | Africa |
Kampala | 28. | Uganda | 1,353,189 | Africa |
Kano | 29. | Nigeria | 4,103,000 | Africa |
Khartoum | 30. | Sudan | 1,974,647 | Africa |
Kigali | 31. | Rwanda | 1,132,686 | Africa |
Kinshasa | 32. | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 7,785,965 | Africa |
Kumasi | 33. | Ghana | 1,468,609 | Africa |
Lagos | 34. | Nigeria | 15,388,000 | Africa |
Luanda | 35. | Angola | 2,776,168 | Africa |
Lubumbashi | 36. | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1,373,770 | Africa |
Lusaka | 37. | Zambia | 1,267,440 | Africa |
Maputo | 38. | Mozambique | 1,191,613 | Africa |
Matola | 39. | Mozambique | 1,032,197 | Africa |
Mogadishu | 40. | Somalia | 2,587,183 | Africa |
Mombasa | 41. | Kenya | 1,208,333 | Africa |
Nairobi | 42. | Kenya | 2,750,547 | Africa |
Omdurman | 43. | Sudan | 1,200,000 | Africa |
Onitsha | 44. | Nigeria | 1,553,000 | Africa |
Ouagadougou | 45. | Burkina Faso | 1,086,505 | Africa |
Port Harcourt | 46. | Nigeria | 1,865,000 | Africa |
Pretoria | 47. | South Africa | 1,619,438 | Africa |
Rabat | 48. | Morocco | 1,655,753 | Africa |
Shubra al Khaymah | 49. | Egypt | 1,240,289 | Africa |
Soweto | 50. | South Africa | 1,695,047 | Africa |
Tripoli | 51. | Libya | 1,150,989 | Africa |
Yaounde | 52. | Cameroon | 1,299,369 | Africa |
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