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Country	City	Population↓
DR Congo	Kinshasa	21,852,144
Egypt	Cairo	10,119,520
Angola	Luanda	8,473,127
Kenya	Nairobi	5,603,502
Mali	Bamako	5,163,564
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	4,229,569
Cameroon	Yaounde	3,674,849
Somalia	Mogadishu	3,307,421
South Africa	Pretoria	3,296,921
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	3,149,586
Algeria	Algiers	2,961,324
Ghana	Accra	2,951,532
Togo	Lome	2,766,121
Madagascar	Antananarivo	2,567,094
Liberia	Monrovia	2,396,360
Zambia	Lusaka	2,393,400
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	2,323,299
Sudan	Khartoum	2,274,979
Guinea	Conakry	2,195,947
Rwanda	Kigali	2,075,215
Nigeria	Abuja	2,057,985
Uganda	Kampala	1,862,258
Chad	N'Djamena	1,697,201
Mauritania	Nouakchott	1,637,012
Niger	Niamey	1,523,856
Libya	Tripoli	1,506,832
Zimbabwe	Harare	1,494,371
Malawi	Lilongwe	1,344,144
Mozambique	Maputo	1,067,522
Senegal	Dakar	1,063,571
Gabon	Libreville	997,953
Tanzania	Dodoma	934,592
Central African Republic	Bangui	865,084
Djibouti	Djibouti	806,174
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	795,519
Eritrea	Asmara	783,135
Burundi	Bujumbura	758,892
Namibia	Windhoek	537,336
Lesotho	Maseru	517,905
Morocco	Rabat	504,005
Sierra Leone	Freetown	474,425
South Sudan	Juba	474,156
Tunisia	Tunis	471,958
Equatorial Guinea	Ciudad de la Paz	332,814
Benin	Porto-Novo	314,100
Western Sahara	Laayoune	272,865
Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	268,568
Botswana	Gaborone	251,682
Cape Verde	Praia	189,897
Reunion	Saint-Denis	159,007
Mauritius	Port Louis	141,235
Comoros	Moroni	90,383
Sao Tome and Principe	Sao Tome	82,618
Mayotte	Mamoudzou	71,437
Eswatini	Mbabane	61,306
Gambia	Banjul	23,727
Seychelles	Victoria	4,739
Saint Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	Jamestown	3,942

List of Capitals in Africa

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