Facts About Africa

• The largest country in Africa is Sudan.

• Cairo is the largest city in Africa with over nine million inhabitants.
• Africa is the birthplace of the human species.
• Nile is the longest river in the world.
• Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa.
• South America and Africa were connected millions of years ago, but due to the
movement of the tectonic plates they moved away.
• The Sahara Desert in Africa is the largest desert in the world.
• Africa produces 50% of the diamonds in the world.
• Human fossils have been found in Africa which has been dated over four million years
old and some seven million years old.
• The first dominant human civilization was found in Africa and they were the "Egyptians"
in 3,300 BC.
• The largest mountain in Africa is Mt. Kilimanjaro with a height of 19,317 feet.
• Arabs made Africa their home in 7th century AD and spread Islam throughout the
continent.
• Africa is currently the poorest continent on Earth.
• In the early 18th and 19th century, European powers colonized the whole of Africa.
• Most countries in Africa gained independence in the early 20th century.

There are 47 countries in Africa which also includes the disputed territory of
Western Sahara. If you also count the surrounding islands on the cost of Africa,
then the number rises to 53. The islands of Madagascar, the Comoros,
Mauritius, Cape Verde, Sao Tome, Principe and the Seychelles are now
recognized as independent nations. Some people don't count the surrounding
islands so the answer to how many countries are in Africa altogether keeps
fluctuating. However, facts cannot be overlooked which says that all these
surrounding regions have majority African population and a strong historical
bond with Africa so they are usually considered as African countries. Here's a
list of African countries and capitals.

African Countries Capitals

Algeria Algiers
Angola Luanda
Benin Porto-Novo
Botswana Gaborone
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou
Burundi Bujumbura
Cameroon Yaounde
Cape Verde Praia
Central African Republic Bangui
Chad N'Djamena
Comoros Moroni
Congo, Democratic Republic of (Congo- Kinshasa
Kinshasa)
Congo, Republic of (Congo-Brazzaville) Brazzaville
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Yamoussoukr
Djibouti Djibouti
Egypt Cairo
Equatorial Guinea Malabo
Eritrea Asmara
Ethiopia Addis Ababa
Gabon Libreville
Gambia Banjul
Ghana Accra
Guinea Conakry
Guinea-Bissau Bissau
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
Rwanda Kigali
Sao Tome and Principe São Tomé
Senegal Dakar
Seychelles Vicoria
Sierra Leone Freetown
Somalia Mogadishu
South Africa Pretoria
Sudan Khartoum
Swaziland Mbabane
Tanzania Dodoma
Togo Lomé
Tunisia Tunis
Western Sahara El-Aaiún
Uganda Kampala
Zambia Lusaka
Zimbabwe Harare