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Africa

The second largest and second most populous continent, straddling the equator so evenly that it reaches almost equally far into both hemispheres. It holds the longest river, the largest hot desert and the oldest human fossils yet found.

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Quick facts

  • The Sahara alone is close to the size of the United States.
  • Africa has the youngest population of any continent โ€” a median age around 19.
  • The Great Rift Valley is splitting the continent apart at a few millimetres a year.

โ–ฒ Kilimanjaro, 5,895 m  ยท  โ–ผ Lake Assal, โˆ’155 m

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Countries of Africa

51 mapped, ordered by population.

1 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Nigeria Western Africa 200.96M 2 ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡น Ethiopia Eastern Africa 112.08M 3 ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ฌ Egypt Northern Africa 100.39M 4 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Dem. Rep. Congo Middle Africa 86.79M 5 ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆ South Africa Southern Africa 58.56M 6 ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฟ Tanzania Eastern Africa 58.01M 7 ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ช Kenya Eastern Africa 52.57M 8 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Uganda Eastern Africa 44.27M 9 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Algeria Northern Africa 43.05M 10 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Sudan Northern Africa 42.81M 11 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Morocco Northern Africa 36.47M 12 ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ด Angola Middle Africa 31.83M 13 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ญ Ghana Western Africa 30.42M 14 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Mozambique Eastern Africa 30.37M 15 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Madagascar Eastern Africa 26.97M 16 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Cameroon Middle Africa 25.88M 17 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Cรดte d'Ivoire Western Africa 25.72M 18 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ช Niger Western Africa 23.31M 19 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ซ Burkina Faso Western Africa 20.32M 20 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Mali Western Africa 19.66M 21 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ผ Malawi Eastern Africa 18.63M 22 ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Zambia Eastern Africa 17.86M 23 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ณ Senegal Western Africa 16.3M 24 ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฉ Chad Middle Africa 15.95M 25 ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ผ Zimbabwe Eastern Africa 14.65M 26 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ณ Guinea Western Africa 12.77M 27 ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ผ Rwanda Eastern Africa 12.63M 28 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฏ Benin Western Africa 11.8M 29 ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ Tunisia Northern Africa 11.69M 30 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฎ Burundi Eastern Africa 11.53M 31 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ธ S. Sudan Eastern Africa 11.06M 32 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ด Somalia Eastern Africa 10.19M 33 ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฌ Togo Western Africa 8.08M 34 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Sierra Leone Western Africa 7.81M 35 ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡พ Libya Northern Africa 6.78M 36 ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ท Eritrea Eastern Africa 6.08M 37 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Congo Middle Africa 5.38M 38 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ด Somaliland Eastern Africa 5.1M 39 ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ท Liberia Western Africa 4.94M 40 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ซ Central African Rep. Middle Africa 4.75M 41 ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ท Mauritania Western Africa 4.53M 42 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Namibia Southern Africa 2.49M 43 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Gambia Western Africa 2.35M 44 ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ผ Botswana Southern Africa 2.3M 45 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Gabon Middle Africa 2.17M 46 ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ธ Lesotho Southern Africa 2.13M 47 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ผ Guinea-Bissau Western Africa 1.92M 48 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ถ Eq. Guinea Middle Africa 1.36M 49 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฟ eSwatini Southern Africa 1.15M 50 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฏ Djibouti Eastern Africa 973.56K 51 ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ญ W. Sahara Northern Africa 603.25K

Peaks

The highest ground on this continent.

5,895 m

Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro massif ยท Tanzania

5,199 m

Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya massif ยท Kenya

4,321 m

Mount Elgon

Mount Elgon massif ยท Uganda, Kenya

2,285 m

Mount Sinai

Sinai Peninsula ยท Egypt

1,085 m

Table Mountain

Cape Fold Belt ยท South Africa

Where to go

Featured destinations across Africa.

Great Pyramid of Giza

Ancient

The only wonder of the ancient world still standing, and the tallest human structure on Earth for nearly four thousand years.

EgyptOct โ€“ Apr

Victoria Falls

Nature

Mosi-oa-Tunya, the smoke that thunders โ€” spray from the drop rises 400 m and is visible 50 km away.

ZambiaFeb โ€“ May

Sahara โ€“ Erg Chebbi

Desert

Wind-piled dunes up to 150 m tall, with some of the darkest night skies anywhere in North Africa.

MoroccoOct โ€“ Apr

Namib Desert & Sossusvlei

Desert

The oldest desert on Earth, where 300 m dunes meet a clay pan of 900-year-old blackened camelthorn trees.

NamibiaMay โ€“ Oct

Serengeti Migration

Wildlife

Around 1.5 million wildebeest run a clockwise circuit through the Serengeti and Masai Mara every year.

TanzaniaJun โ€“ Oct

Okavango Delta

Wildlife

A river that never reaches the sea, flooding the Kalahari instead and pulling in wildlife from across the desert.

BotswanaJun โ€“ Sep

Bwindi Gorillas

Wildlife

Roughly half the world's remaining mountain gorillas live in this single stretch of impenetrable forest.

UgandaJun โ€“ Aug, Dec โ€“ Feb

Marrakesh Medina

City

Jemaa el-Fnaa turns over completely at dusk, from snake charmers and storytellers to a hundred food stalls.

MoroccoMar โ€“ May, Sep โ€“ Nov

Cape Town

City

A city wedged between a flat-topped mountain and two oceans, with penguins on a suburban beach.

South AfricaNov โ€“ Mar

Zanzibar

Beach

The old Spice Islands, where a coral-stone trading town meets tides that walk the sea out a kilometre.

TanzaniaJun โ€“ Oct