Africa is a vast continent with 54 countries where many disparate ethnic groups and cultures coexist, it also contains one of the largest deserts in the world, the Sahara, and an enormous variety of fauna and flora spread over areas such as the African savannah.
It is an immense and very rich land, both in terms of landscape and culture, for this reason, it is worth discovering and knowing which are the countries that make up this great continent. In this OneHowTo article, we are going to offer you a list of countries and capitals in Africa so that you can get to know, a little better, the variety and breadth of this immense territory.
Countries of Africa with their capitals (in alphabetical order)
Angola , Luanda
Algeria , Algiers
Benin , Porto – new
Botswana , Gaborone
Burkina Faso , Ouagadougou
Burundi , Buyumbura
Cape Verde , Beach
Cameroon , Yaoundé
Central African Republic, Bangui
Comoros , Moroni
Ivory Coast , Yamoussoukro
Chad, Yamena
Egypt , Cairo
Eritrea, Asmara
Ethiopia , Addis Ababa
Gabon , Libre Ville
Gambia, Banjul
Ghana, Accra
Guinea, Conakry
Guinea-Bissau , Bissau
Equatorial Guinea , Malabo
Kenya , Nairobi
Lesotho , Maseru
Liberia, Monrovia
Libya , Tripoli
Madagascar , Antananarivo
Malaui , Lilongüe
Little , Bamako
Morocco , Rabat
Mauricio, Port Louis
Mauritania , Nouakchott
Mozambique , Maputo
Namibia , Windhoek
Niger , Niamey
Nigeria , Abuya
Rwanda , Kigali
Republic of the Congo , Brazzaville
Democratic Republic of the Congo , Kinshasa
Sao Tome and Principe , Sao Tome
Senegal, Dakar
Seychelles , Victoria
Sierra Leona, Freetown
Somalia , Mogadishu
South Africa (Republic) , Pretoria
Sudan , Khartoum
South Sudan , Juba
Suazilandia , Lobamba
Tanzania , Dar el Salam
Tunis , Tunis
Togo , Lome
Uganda, Kampala
Yibuti , Yibuti
Zambia , Lusaka
Zimbabwe , Hare
Facts about Africa
Being such a vast and varied continent, Africa has some curiosities and contradictions that are worth knowing. In fact, it is a country that has been the object of settlers from the third world and that has lived (and continues to live) great wars to gain independence from foreign peoples. Next, we are going to discover some curiosities about Africa so that you can get to know this continent a little better.
Dictatorial regimes
Currently, there are only thirteen countries in the world that are governed by dictators, that is, heads of state who imposed their government by force without the people being able to say anything at all. Of these 13 countries, 10 are in Africa.
Diamond producer
It is one of the continents with the highest rate of poverty and yet it is the largest producer of diamonds in the world; in fact, 50% of the diamonds that exist are of African origin. The pioneer countries in this business are Angola, South Africa, and Botswana.
Uncolonized country: Ethiopia
It is the ONLY country on the entire continent that has never been colonized. It is the oldest country with more than 2000 years of history. It is inhabited by more than 80 different ethnic groups who speak different languages but maintain good coexistence, respect, and tolerance.
The pyramids of Sudan
When you think of pyramids, the first thing that comes to mind is Egypt, right? Well, Sudan they have more pyramids than Egypt and than any other country in the world. It has 223 pyramids in cities such as Meroe, Nuri, Al Kurru, and Gebel Barkal while in Egypt there are 110 pyramids.
Animals of Africa
Tanzania is the country that contains the largest number of wild animals, in fact, 20% of the large African mammals are found in the national parks of this region. In Madagascar, we also find a great peculiarity regarding the fauna that it houses and that is that this island houses species of fauna and flora that are not found in any other area of the world, 80% of the animals are endemic, and, among them, the infraorder lemur.
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