Childrens Illustrated World Atlas

Africa

495,755 sq miles

1,284,000 sq km

11,852,000

N’Djamena

French, Sara, Arabic, Maba

489,191 sq miles

1,267,000 sq km

18,639,000

Niamey

Hausa, Djerma, Fula,

Tuareg, Teda, French

481,354 sq miles

1,246,700 sq km

20,172,000

Luanda

Portuguese, Umbundu,

Kimbundu, Kikongo

478,841 sq miles

1,240,192 sq km

17,467,000

Bamako

Bambara, Fula, Senufo,

Soninke, French

470,693 sq miles

1,219,090 sq km

54,301,000

Pretoria

English, isiZulu, isiXhosa,

Afrikaans, Sepedi, Setswana,

Sesotho, Xitsonga, siSwati,

Tshivenda, isiNdebele

426,373 sq miles

1,104,300 sq km

102,374,000

Addis Ababa

Amharic, Tigrinya, Galla,

Sidamo, Somali, English,

Arabic (Oromu)

397,955 sq miles

1,030,700 sq km

3,677,000

Nouakchott

Hassaniyah Arabic, Wolof,

French

386,662 sq miles

1,001,450 sq km

94,667,000

Cairo

Arabic, French, English,

Berber

365,755 sq miles

947,300 sq km

52,483,000

Dodoma

Kiswahili, Sukuma,Kichagga,

Nyamwezi, Hehe, Makonde,

Yao, Sandawe, English

356,669 sq miles

923,768 sq km

186,053,000

Abuja

Hausa, English, Yoruba, Igbo

318,261 sq miles

824,292 sq km

2,436,000

Windhoek

Ovambo, Kavango, English,

Bergdama, German, Afrikaans

308,642 sq miles

799,380 sq km

25,930,000

Maputo

Makua, Xitsonga, Sena,

Lomwe, Portuguese

290,587 sq miles

752,618 sq km

15,511,000

Lusaka

Bemba, Tongan, Nyanja,

Lozi, Lala-Bisa, Nsenga, English

246,201 sq miles

637,657 sq km

10,817,000

Mogadishu

Somali, Arabic, English,

Italian

240,535 sq miles

622,984 sq km

5,507,000

Bangui

Sango, Banda, Gbaya,

French

226,658 sq miles

587,041 sq km

24,430,000

Antananarivo

Malagasy, French

224,607 sq miles

581,730 sq km

2,209,000

Gaborone

Setswana, English, Shona,

San, Khoikhoi, isiNdebele

224,081 sq miles

580,367 sq km

46,791,000

Nairobi

Kiswahili, English, Kikuyu,

Luo, Kalenjin, Kamba

183,568 sq miles

475,440 sq km

24,361,000

Yaoundé

Bamileke, Fang, Fula,

French, English

172,414 sq miles

446,550 sq km

33,656,000

Rabat

Arabic, Tamazight (Berber),

French, Spanish

Chad

Niger

Angola

Mali

NORTHWEST AFRICA

Ethiopia

Mauritania

Egypt

Tanzania

Nigeria

Namibia

Mozambique

Zambia

Somalia

CENTRAL AFRICA

Republic

Madagascar

Botswana

Kenya

Cameroon

Morocco

718,723 sq miles

1,861,484 sq km

36,730,000

Khartoum

Arabic, Nubian, Beja, Fur

Sudan

679,362 sq miles

1,759,540 sq km

6,542,000

Tripoli

Arabic, Tuareg

Libya

919,595 sq miles

2,381,741 sq km

40,264,000

Algiers

Arabic, Tamazight (Berber:

Kabyle, Shawia, Tamashek),

French

905,355 sq miles

2,344,858 sq km

81,331,000

Kinshasa

Kiswahili, Tshiluba,

Kikongo, Lingala, French

132,946 sq miles

342,000 sq km

4,852,000

Brazzaville

Kikongo, Teke, Lingala,

French

Algeria

Congo, Dem

Rep of the

Congo,

Republic of

103,347 sq miles

267,667 sq km

1,739,000

Libreville

Fang, French, Punu, Sira,

Nzebi, Mpongwe

150,872 sq miles

390,757 sq km

14,547,000

Harare

Shona, isiNdebele, English

124,504 sq miles

322,463 sq km

23,740,000

Yamoussoukro

Akan, French, Kru,

Voltaïque

105,869 sq miles

274,200 sq km

19,513,000

Ouagadougou

Mossi, Fulani, French,

Tuareg, Diyula, Songhai

Gabon

Zimbabwe

Ivory

Coast

Burkina Faso

AFRICA

Covering one-fifth of the world’s land area, Africa has a rapidly growing

population. Many of its 53 nations—listed below in order of size—are

desperately poor. This is partly due to hostile climates, especially in and

around the vast Sahara desert, but also because of a history of political

turmoil, ethnic tension or conflict and, in some countries, war. Despite

this, African culture is among the most vibrant on Earth.

248,777 sq miles

644,329 sq km

12,531,000

Juba

Dinka, Nuer, Zande, Bari,

Shilluk, Lotuko, Arabic

South

Sudan

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