Cities in Africa

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With total of 53 countries, Africa is the second largest continent in the world. Some of the most popular cities of Africa include:

Cairo - The capital of Egypt, it is the most populous city of Africa.
Lagos - The commercial capital of Nigeria, it is the most populous city of the most populous nation of Africa.
Johannesberg - The largest city of South Africa, it stands as a reminiscent of struggle against apartheid.
Cape Town - One of the well-known cities of South Africa, Cape Town is popular world wide for its Table Mountain and Cape Point.
Alexandria - This city of Egypt is probably the oldest inhabited city of the world. The former capital of Egypt, it is the place where the mighty Nile meets the Mediterranean Sea.
Kinshasa - Resting amicably on the banks of the river Congo, this capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo is another significant city of Africa. Hub of the economic affairs of the nation, it is also the epicenter of some of the greatest music genres of Africa.
Kano - The third largest city of Nigeria, it is the administrative center of the country.

City	Country	City Population	Urban Area Population
Major Cities in Africa
Lagos	Nigeria	8029200	9123200
Cairo	Egypt	7764700	15546100
Kinshasa	Congo Dem Republic	6301100	7527500
Alexandria	Egypt	3806300	4345800
Casablanca	Morocco	3344300	3344300
Abidjan	Cote d’ Ivoire (Ivory Coast)	3310500	3972300
Kano	Nigeria	3248700	3519500
Ibadan	Nigeria	3078400	3670400
Cape Town	South Africa	2686000	3086600
Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	2638500	2638500
Giza	Egypt	2541000	2541000
Nairobi	Kenya	2510800	3043100
Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	2456100	2456100
Dakar	Senegal	2384000	2384000
Durban	South Africa	2354900	2354900
Luanda	Angola	2193400	2640500
Tripoli	Libya	1890600	2271800
Harare	Zimbabwe	1864400	2264200
Algiers	Algeria	1696000	3815900
Omdurman	Sudan	1670000	1670000
Johannesburg	South Africa	1646400	5014000
Accra	Ghana	1605400	2756100
Rabat	Morocco	1600700	1600700
Conakry	Guinea	1595800	1595800
Kaduna	Nigeria	1458900	1458900
Khartoum	Sudan	1244500	5862500
Douala	Cameroon	1239100	1449400
Pretoria	South Africa	1228200	1514800
Soweto	South Africa	1221100	1221100
Lusaka	Zambia	1218200	1720800
Mogadishu	Somalia	1183100	1183100
Brazzaville	Congo	1133800	1133800
Yaoundé	Cameroon	1122500	1356600
Maputo	Mozambique	1088100	1639300
Lubumbashi	Congo Dem Republic	1074600	1074600
Port Harcourt	Nigeria	1053900	1190600
Benin	Nigeria	1051600	1051600
Freetown	Sierra Leone	1032100	1032100
Subra al-Haymah	Egypt	995800	995800
Maiduguri	Nigeria	971700	971700
Kampala	Uganda	953400	1146700
Bulawayo	Zimbabwe	927600	927600
Fez	Morocco	921200	921200
Bamako	Mali	906700	1130800
Mbuji-Mayi	Congo Dem Republic	905800	1054400
Zaria	Nigeria	898900	898900
Antananarivo	Madagascar	875200	1359600
Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso	839800	839800
Port Elizabeth	South Africa	833900	1047600
Kolwezi	Congo Dem Republic	803900	803900

Last Updated Date: August 04, 2016

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