THE GREAT AFRICA - Territories and Regions

Territories and regions

Main articles: List of regions of Africa and List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Africa

The countries in this table are categorized according to the scheme for geographic subregions used by the United Nations, and data included are per sources in cross-referenced articles. Where they differ, provisos are clearly indicated.

Regions of Africa:   Northern Africa   Western Africa   Central Africa   Eastern Africa   Southern Africa

Physical map of Africa

Political map of Africa

Name of region[99] and territory, with flag	Area (km²)	Population[100]	Year	Density (per km²)	Capital
Eastern Africa
Burundi	27,830	8,988,091	2009	323	Bujumbura
Comoros	2,170	752,438	2009	347	Moroni
Djibouti	23,000	516,055	2009	22	Djibouti
Eritrea	121,320	5,647,168	2009	47	Asmara
Ethiopia	1,127,127	84,320,987	2012	75	Addis Ababa
Kenya	582,650	39,002,772	2009	66	Nairobi
Madagascar	587,040	20,653,556	2009	35	Antananarivo
Malawi	118,480	14,268,711	2009	120	Lilongwe
Mauritius	2,040	1,284,264	2009	630	Port Louis
Mayotte (France)	374	223,765	2009	490	Mamoudzou
Mozambique	801,590	21,669,278	2009	27	Maputo
Réunion (France)	2,512	743,981	2002	296	Saint-Denis
Rwanda	26,338	10,473,282	2009	398	Kigali
Seychelles	455	87,476	2009	192	Victoria
Somalia	637,657	9,832,017	2009	15	Mogadishu
South Sudan	619,745	8,260,490	2008	13	Juba
Tanzania	945,087	44,929,002	2009	43	Dodoma
Uganda	236,040	32,369,558	2009	137	Kampala
Zambia	752,614	11,862,740	2009	16	Lusaka
Zimbabwe	390,580	11,392,629	2009	29	Harare
Central Africa
Angola	1,246,700	12,799,293	2009	10	Luanda
Cameroon	475,440	18,879,301	2009	40	Yaoundé
Central African Republic	622,984	4,511,488	2009	7	Bangui
Chad	1,284,000	10,329,208	2009	8	N'Djamena
Republic of the Congo	342,000	4,012,809	2009	12	Brazzaville
Democratic Republic of the Congo	2,345,410	69,575,000	2012	30	Kinshasa
Equatorial Guinea	28,051	633,441	2009	23	Malabo
Gabon	267,667	1,514,993	2009	6	Libreville
São Tomé and Príncipe	1,001	212,679	2009	212	São Tomé
Northern Africa
Algeria	2,381,740	34,178,188	2009	14	Algiers
Canary Islands (Spain)[101]	7,492	2,118,519	2010	226	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Ceuta (Spain)[102]	20	71,505	2001	3,575	—
Egypt[103]	1,001,450	82,868,000	2012	83	Cairo
Libya	1,759,540	6,310,434	2009	4	Tripoli
Madeira (Portugal)[104]	797	245,000	2001	307	Funchal
Melilla (Spain)[105]	12	66,411	2001	5,534	—
Morocco	446,550	34,859,364	2009	78	Rabat
Sudan	1,861,484	30,894,000	2008	17	Khartoum
Tunisia	163,610	10,486,339	2009	64	Tunis
Western Sahara[106]	266,000	405,210	2009	2	El Aaiún
Southern Africa
Botswana	600,370	1,990,876	2009	3	Gaborone
Lesotho	30,355	2,130,819	2009	70	Maseru
Namibia	825,418	2,108,665	2009	3	Windhoek
South Africa	1,219,912	51,770,560	2011	42	Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Pretoria[107]
Swaziland	17,363	1,123,913	2009	65	Mbabane
Western Africa
Benin	112,620	8,791,832	2009	78	Porto-Novo
Burkina Faso	274,200	15,746,232	2009	57	Ouagadougou
Cape Verde	4,033	429,474	2009	107	Praia
Côte d'Ivoire	322,460	20,617,068	2009	64	Abidjan,[108] Yamoussoukro
Gambia	11,300	1,782,893	2009	158	Banjul
Ghana	239,460	23,832,495	2009	100	Accra
Guinea	245,857	10,057,975	2009	41	Conakry
Guinea-Bissau	36,120	1,533,964	2009	43	Bissau
Liberia	111,370	3,441,790	2009	31	Monrovia
Mali	1,240,000	12,666,987	2009	10	Bamako
Mauritania	1,030,700	3,129,486	2009	3	Nouakchott
Niger	1,267,000	15,306,252	2009	12	Niamey
Nigeria	923,768	166,629,000	2012	180	Abuja
Saint Helena (United Kingdom)	410	7,637	2009	14	Jamestown
Senegal	196,190	13,711,597	2009	70	Dakar
Sierra Leone	71,740	6,440,053	2009	90	Freetown
Togo	56,785	6,019,877	2009	106	Lomé
Africa Total	30,368,609	1,001,320,281	2009	33