How many countries are there in Africa? Can you name them all? What about their capitals?
If you’ve ever tried to list all African countries along with their capitals, the best way may be alphabetically…..here’s a little help with that
- Algeria – Algiers
- Angola – Luanda
- Benin – Porto-Novo
- Botswana – Gaborone
- Burkina Faso – Ouagadougou
- Burundi – Bujumbura
- Cabo Verde – Praia
- Cameroon – Yaoundé
- Central African Republic – Bangui
- Chad – N’Djamena
- Comoros – Moroni
- Democratic Republic of the Congo – Kinshasa
- Djibouti – Djibouti City
- Egypt – Cairo
- Equatorial Guinea – Malabo
- Eritrea – Asmara
- Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) – Mbabane (administrative) / Lobamba (legislative)
- Ethiopia – Addis Ababa
- Gabon – Libreville
- Gambia – Banjul
- Ghana – Accra
- Guinea – Conakry
- Guinea-Bissau – Bissau
- Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) – Yamoussoukro (political) / Abidjan (economic)
- Kenya – Nairobi
- Lesotho – Maseru
- Liberia – Monrovia
- Libya – Tripoli
- Madagascar – Antananarivo
- Malawi – Lilongwe
- Mali – Bamako
- Mauritania – Nouakchott
- Mauritius – Port Louis
- Morocco – Rabat
- Mozambique – Maputo
- Namibia – Windhoek
- Niger – Niamey
- Nigeria – Abuja
- Republic of the Congo – Brazzaville
- Rwanda – Kigali
- São Tomé and Príncipe – São Tomé
- Senegal – Dakar
- Seychelles – Victoria
- Sierra Leone – Freetown
- Somalia – Mogadishu
- South Africa – Pretoria (administrative) / Bloemfontein (judicial) / Cape Town (legislative)
- South Sudan – Juba
- Sudan – Khartoum
- Tanzania – Dodoma (official) / Dar es Salaam (de facto)
- Togo – Lomé
- Tunisia – Tunis
- Uganda – Kampala
- Zambia – Lusaka
- Zimbabwe – Harare
Which ones did you miss? Now try it again without looking