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Serial number | nation | capital | Population (ten thousand) | Population ranking | Area (ten thousand square kilometers) | Area ranking | Population density (person/km2) | Population density ranking |
1 | Algeria Algeria |
Algiers Algiers |
3790.0 | 8 | 238.17 | 2 | 15.91 | 40 |
2 | Egypt Egypt |
Cairo Cairo |
8670.0 | 3 | 100.15 | 12 | 86.57 | 16 |
3 | Ethiopia Ethiopia |
Addis Ababa Addis Ababa |
9,100.0 | 2 | 110.36 | 10 | 82.46 | 18 |
4 | Angola Angola |
Luanda, Luanda |
500.0 | 35 | 124.67 | 7 | 4.01 | 50 |
5 | Benin Benin |
Porto-Novo Porto-Novo |
1000.0 | 30 | 11.20 | 37 | 89.29 | 15 |
6 | Botswana, Botswana |
Gaborone Gaborone |
200.0 | 43 | 58.17 | twenty two | 3.44 | 53 |
7 | Burkina Faso Burkina Faso |
Ouagadougou Ouagadougou |
1740.0 | 18 | 27.40 | 29 | 63.50 | 26 |
8 | Burundi Burundi |
Bujumbura Bujumbura |
1050.0 | 28 | 2.78 | 44 | 377.70 | 3 |
9 | Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea |
Malabo Malabo |
101.0 | 49 | 2.81 | 43 | 36.01 | 33 |
10 | Togo Togo |
Lome Lomé |
700.0 | 32 | 5.68 | 40 | 123.27 | 12 |
11 | Eritrea Eritrea |
Asmara Asmara |
450.0 | 38 | 1.24 | 48 | 361.97 | 4 |
12 | Cape Verde Cape Verde |
Praia Praia |
50.7 | 52 | 0.40 | 50 | 125.71 | 11 |
13 | Gambia, Gambia |
Banjul Banjul |
191.0 | 44 | 1.04 | 49 | 184.01 | 8 |
14 | Congo, Congo |
Brazzaville Brazzaville |
460.0 | 37 | 34.20 | 27 | 13.45 | 44 |
15 | DR Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Kinshasa Kinshasa |
7,100.0 | 4 | 234.50 | 3 | 30.28 | 38 |
16 | Djibouti Djibouti |
Djibouti City, Djibouti |
90.0 | 50 | 2.32 | 46 | 38.79 | 32 |
17 | Guinea Guinea |
Conakry Conakry |
1200.0 | 26 | 24.60 | 31 | 48.78 | 27 |
18 | Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau |
Bissau Bissau |
170.0 | 45 | 3.60 | 41 | 47.22 | 29 |
19 | Ghana, Ghana |
Accra Accra |
2640.0 | 12 | 23.85 | 33 | 110.69 | 14 |
20 | Gabon Gabon |
Libreville Libreville |
170.0 | 45 | 26.77 | 30 | 6.35 | 49 |
twenty one | Zimbabwe Zimbabwe |
Harare Harare |
1306.0 | twenty four | 39.00 | 26 | 33.49 | 35 |
twenty two | Cameroon Cameroon |
Yaounde Yaounde |
2220.0 | 14 | 47.60 | twenty four | 46.64 | 30 |
twenty three | Comoros Comoros |
Moroni Moroni |
80.0 | 51 | 0.22 | 51 | 357.78 | 5 |
twenty four | Côte d'Ivoire Côte d'Ivoire |
Yamoussoukro Yamoussoukro |
2,130.0 | 15 | 32.00 | 28 | 66.56 | twenty four |
25 | Kenya Kenya |
Nairobi Nairobi |
4100.0 | 7 | 58.00 | twenty three | 70.69 | 20 |
26 | Lesotho Lesotho |
Maseru Maseru |
210.0 | 42 | 3.00 | 42 | 70.00 | twenty one |
27 | Liberia Liberia |
Monrovia Monrovia |
348.0 | 40 | 11.10 | 38 | 31.35 | 37 |
28 | Libya Libya |
Tripoli Tripoli |
636.0 | 33 | 176.00 | 4 | 3.61 | 52 |
29 | Rwanda Rwanda |
Kigali Kigali |
1210.0 | 25 | 2.63 | 45 | 459.41 | 2 |
30 | Madagascar Madagascar |
Antananarivo Antananarivo |
2100.0 | 16 | 59.00 | twenty one | 35.59 | 34 |
31 | Malawi Malawi |
Lilongwe Lilongwe |
1390.0 | twenty one | 11.80 | 36 | 117.80 | 13 |
32 | Mali Mali |
Bamako Bamako |
1630.0 | 19 | 124.10 | 8 | 13.13 | 46 |
33 | Mauritius Mauritius |
Port Louis Port Louis |
125.7 | 47 | 0.20 | 52 | 616.18 | 1 |
34 | Mauritania Mauritania |
Nouakchott Nouakchott |
390.0 | 39 | 103.00 | 11 | 3.79 | 51 |
35 | Morocco Morocco |
Rabat Rabat |
3,280.0 | 11 | 45.90 | 25 | 71.46 | 19 |
36 | Mozambique Mozambique |
Maputo Maputo |
2580.0 | 13 | 80.16 | 16 | 32.19 | 36 |
37 | Namibia Namibia |
Windhoek Windhoek |
240.0 | 41 | 82.40 | 15 | 2.91 | 54 |
38 | South Africa South Africa |
Tshwane within Tshwane |
5496.0 | 5 | 122.00 | 9 | 45.05 | 31 |
39 | South Sudan South Sudan |
Juba Juba |
826.0 | 31 | 62.00 | 20 | 13.32 | 45 |
40 | Niger Niger |
Niamey Niamey |
1,780.0 | 17 | 126.70 | 6 | 14.05 | 42 |
41 | Nigeria Nigeria |
Abuja Abuja |
19600.0 | 1 | 92.00 | 14 | 188.04 | 6 |
42 | Sierra Leone Sierra Leone |
Freetown Freetown |
610.0 | 34 | 7.20 | 39 | 84.72 | 17 |
43 | Senegal Senegal |
Dakar Dakar |
1360.0 | twenty two | 19.67 | 34 | 69.14 | twenty two |
44 | Seychelles Seychelles |
Victoria Victoria |
8.5 | 54 | 0.05 | 54 | 186.65 | 7 |
45 | Sao Tome and Principe São Tomé & Príncipe |
Sao Tome São Tomé |
16.0 | 53 | 0.10 | 53 | 159.84 | 9 |
46 | Swaziland Swaziland |
Mbabane within Mbabane |
114.0 | 48 | 1.70 | 47 | 67.06 | twenty three |
47 | Sudan Sudan |
Khartoum Khartoum |
3420.0 | 10 | 250.58 | 1 | 13.65 | 43 |
48 | Somalia Somalia |
Mogadishu Mogadishu |
1008.0 | 29 | 63.80 | 18 | 15.80 | 41 |
49 | Tanzania Tanzania |
Dodoma Dodoma |
4,600.0 | 6 | 94.50 | 13 | 48.68 | 28 |
50 | Tunisia, Tunisia |
Tunis, Tunis |
1070.0 | 27 | 16.20 | 35 | 66.05 | 25 |
51 | Uganda Uganda |
Kampala Kampala |
3,490.0 | 9 | 24.10 | 32 | 144.81 | 10 |
52 | Zambia Zambia |
Lusaka Lusaka |
1463.0 | 20 | 75.00 | 17 | 19.51 | 39 |
53 | Chad Chad |
N'Djamena N'Djamena |
1360.0 | twenty two | 128.40 | 5 | 10.59 | 47 |
54 | Central Africa Central Africa |
Bangui Bangui |
470.0 | 36 | 62.20 | 19 | 7.56 | 48 |
Note: Tshwane (also known as Pretoria) is only the administrative capital of South Africa, with the legislative capital Cape Town (Cape Town) and the judicial capital Bloemfontein (Bloemfontein).
Africa (English: Africa), the full name of Africa, is located in the west of the Eastern Hemisphere, south of Europe, west of Asia, east of the Indian Ocean, west of the Atlantic Ocean, spanning the equator from north to south, covering an area of approximately 30.2 million square kilometers (land area), accounting for the world With 20.4% of the total land area, it is the second largest continent in the world and the second most populous continent (approximately 1.286 billion) [1].
The African continent extends to Cape Hafon (51°24'E, 10°27'N) in the east, Cape Agulhas in the south (20°02'E, 34°51'S), and Cape Verde in the west (17°33' W, 14°45'N), north to Cape Gilan (Cape Bensaika) (9°50'E, 37°21'N).
The plateau area of the African continent is vast. Plateaus with an altitude of 500 meters to 1,000 meters account for more than 60% of the area of Africa, and are known as the "Plateau Continent". Mountain plateaus above 2,000 altitudes account for about 5% of Africa's area. Plains below 200 meters above sea level are mostly distributed along the coastal zone, which is less than 10% of the area of Africa. The average elevation of the African continent is 650 meters.
Africa is one of the birthplaces of ancient humans and civilizations in the world, with the earliest written records in 4000 BC. Egypt in northern Africa is one of the birthplaces of world civilization.
Geographic context
Africa is located in the southwestern part of the Eastern Hemisphere, across the equator, and parts of the northwestern part extend into the Western Hemisphere. It borders the Indian Ocean to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and Europe across the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar to the north. The northeast corner is adjacent to Asia by the long and narrow Red Sea and the Suez Canal. The mainland extends to Cape Hafon in the east (longitude 51°24′ east, latitude 10°27′ north), Cape Agulhas south (20°02′ east longitude, 34°51′ south latitude), and west to Cape Verde (west longitude) 17°33', north latitude 14°45'), north to Cape Gilan (Cape Bensaika) (9°50' east longitude, 37°21' north latitude). About 30.2 million square kilometers (including nearby islands). It accounts for about 20.2% of the world's total land area, second to Asia and the second largest continent in the world.topography
The coastline has a total length of 30,500 kilometers. The coast is relatively straight, lacking bays and peninsulas. Africa is the continent with the least number of islands among all continents in the world. Except for Madagascar (the fourth largest island in the world), the rest are mostly small islands. The total area of the island is about 620,000 square kilometers, accounting for less than 3% of the total area of the continent. The African continent is wide in the north and narrow in the south, and has a unequal triangle shape. The longest from north to south is about 8,000 kilometers, and the widest from east to west is about 7,500 kilometers. Africa is a plateau continent, the terrain is relatively flat, the obvious mountains are limited to the north and south ends. The continent has an average elevation of 750 meters. Plateaus with an altitude of 500 to 1,000 meters account for more than 60% of the continent's area. Mountains and plateaus above 2000 meters above sea level account for about 5% of the continent's area. Plains below 200 meters above sea level are mostly distributed in coastal areas. The terrain is roughly bounded by the mouth of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the northern edge of the Ethiopian Plateau. The southeast half is higher and the northwest half is lower. The southeastern half is known as High Africa, with an elevation of more than 1,000 meters, including the Ethiopian Plateau (above 2,000 meters above sea level, known as the "Roof of Africa"), the East African Plateau and the South African Plateau. On the South African Plateau there is the Karahadi Basin . The northwestern half is called Low Africa. The altitude is mostly below 500 meters. Most of them are low plateaus and basins, including the Upper Nile Basin, Congo Basin and Chad Basin. The taller mountains in Africa mostly stand on the coastal zone of the plateau, with the Atlas Mountains on the northwest coast; the Drakensberg Mountains on the southeast coast; and Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro on the east. Mount Kilimanjaro is an extinct volcano, 5895 meters above sea level, the highest peak in Africa. East Africa has the world’s largest rift zone, the Great Rift Valley of East Africa. The eastern branch of the rift zone extends from the Shire River estuary to the south through Lake Malawi and runs northward through the middle of the East African Plateau and the middle of the Ethiopian Plateau, through the Red Sea to the northern part of the Dead Sea. , About 6,400 kilometers long; the west branch of the rift zone extends from the northwestern end of Lake Malawi in the south through Lake Tanganyika, Lake Kivu, Lake Edward, and Lake Albert to the Albert Nile Valley, about 1,700 kilometers long It is tens of kilometers to 300 kilometers wide, forming a series of narrow and deep valleys and lakes. The surface of Lake Assal is 156 meters below sea level, which is the lowest point of African land. Africa's desert area accounts for about 1/3 of the continent's area, making it the continent with the largest desert area. The Sahara Desert is the largest desert in the world, covering an area of 7.77 million square kilometers; there are Namib Desert and Kalahadi Desert in the southwest. In and near the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, there are a series of extinct and active volcanoes, among which tall volcanoes reach an altitude of more than 5,000 meters. There are also many tall volcanoes in central and western Africa. The Great Rift Valley is also the most frequent and strongest earthquake in Africa
Hydrology
The exodus from Africa accounts for about 68.2% of the continent's area. The water systems outside the Atlantic Ocean are mostly large rivers with long history, such as the Nile, Congo, Niger, Senegal, Volta, Orange and so on. With a total length of 6,671 kilometers, the Nile is the longest river in the world. The drainage area and flow of the Congo River is second only to the Amazon River, ranking second in the world. In addition to the Zambezi River, the outflowing water systems of the Indian Ocean are mostly short and rapid rivers, including the Zambezi, Limpopo, Juba and short rivers on the east coast of Africa, and rivers on the island of Madagascar. The area of the inflow water system and no-flow zone in Africa is 9.58 million square kilometers, accounting for about 31.8% of the total area of the continent. Among them, only the Lake Chad basin has a sound river system. The Okavango River Basin and the Sahara Desert are very dry, with many intermittent rivers and many dry valleys in the desert. The inflow area also includes the small East African Rift Valley lake area. The river flows into the lake from the surrounding highlands. The lake area has abundant rainfall and dense river network, which is different from other arid inflow areas. African lakes are concentrated in the East African plateau, with a small amount scattered in inland basins. The plateau lakes are mostly fault lakes, with long and narrow water depth, arranged in the Great Rift Valley in a string of beads. Among them, Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa and the second largest freshwater lake in the world; Lake Tanganyika is the second deepest lake in the world. Lake Tana on the Ethiopian plateau is the highest lake in Africa, at an altitude of 1,830 meters. Lake Chad is the largest lake in the inland basin, and its area changes from time to time.
climate
Africa is known as the "Tropical Continent", and its climate is characterized by high temperature, little rain, and dryness. The climate zones are distributed symmetrically from north to south. The equator traverses the center, and the temperature generally decreases from the equator with increasing latitude. The continent’s annual average temperature above 20°C accounts for about 95% of the continent’s area. More than half of the regions are hot all year round, and nearly half of the regions have hot warm seasons and warm cool seasons. The annual average temperature of Dalor in the northeastern part of Ethiopia is 34.5℃, which is one of the places with the highest average annual temperature in the world. Aziziyah, south of Tripoli, the capital of Libya, had a temperature of 57.8°C on September 13, 1922, which was the extreme highest temperature in Africa. Mount Kilimanjaro is located near the equator. Due to its high altitude, the top of the mountain is covered with snow all year round. The precipitation in Africa decreases from the equator to the north and south, and the distribution of precipitation is extremely uneven. In some areas, there is almost no rain throughout the year, and in some places, the annual precipitation is as much as 10,000 mm. The average annual rainfall in one-third of the continent is less than 200 mm. The windward slopes in the southeast, along the Gulf of Guinea and mountainous areas have more precipitation.Origin of
the name Africa is the abbreviation of "Africa", English: Africa. There are many interesting legends about the origin of the term Africa: a legend is that in ancient times there was also a chief named Africaus who invaded North Africa in 2000 BC and established a city named Afrikyah there. People call this large area Africa. Another legend is that "Africa" is the name of a goddess worshipped by the Berbers living in North Africa. This goddess is a patron saint. It is said that as early as the 1st century BC, the Berbers found a statue of this goddess in a temple. She was a young woman dressed in elephant skin. Since then, people have used the name of the goddess "Africa" as the name of the African continent. There is also a saying that the word Africa comes from the Latin aprica, which means "a place where the sun is hot". Compared with Greece and Rome on the northern coast of the Mediterranean, the sun in North Africa is indeed much hotter. In addition, afri is a common name in North Africa and Carthaginians, and it is usually thought to be related to the Phoenician word afar, "dust". However, in 1981, there was a new saying that the term originated from the Berber term ifri, that is, "cave", referring to cave dwellers in this area. However, after the ancient Romans defeated the Carthaginians through the three Punic Wars, they continued to expand and established the province of Africa, and the meaning of the name continued to expand. Initially the name was limited to the northern part of the African continent. In the second century AD, the Roman Empire expanded to a vast area from the Strait of Gibraltar to the entire northeastern part of Egypt. The Romans or locals living here were collectively called African, which means Africans. This place is also called "Africa", and later refers to the African continent in general. In the Middle Ages, it was also used as Affrike in English to refer to Africa.
North Africa
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North Africa usually includes Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Madeira (Portugal), Spanish Morocco (Spain), Ceuta (Spain), Melilla (Spain) , Canary Islands (part of Spain). Among them, Egypt, Sudan and Libya are sometimes referred to as Northeast Africa. The remaining countries and regions are called Northwest Africa. North Africa has an area of more than 8.2 million square kilometers and a population of about 120 million, with Arabs accounting for about 70%. The northwest is the Atlas Mountains, the southeast is part of the Sudanese grassland, the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts have narrow plains, and the rest is mostly the Sahara Desert. Many agricultural and mineral products in this area occupy an important position in the world. Crude oil accounts for 5% of the world’s total output, phosphate accounts for 22%, cotton accounts for about 5%, and gum arabic accounts for more than 80%. Others include cork, olives, citrus, grapes, Date palms, figs, etc.
East Africa
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East Africa generally include Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Seychelles, Rwanda, Burundi. Sometimes Sudan is also part of East Africa. East Africa covers an area of about 3.7 million square kilometers and has a population of about 130 million, mainly Bantu-speaking blacks, distributed in the south; followed by the Gaila and Amharic Somali, distributed in the north. In the north is the roof of Africa-the Ethiopian plateau, in the south is the East African plateau, and there are narrow plains along the Indian Ocean. The Great Rift Valley runs through the middle and west of the East African plateau. The coffee produced in this area accounts for about 14% of the world's total production, and about sisal. More than 25%, the supply of cloves accounts for more than 80% of the world's supply of cloves. Tea, sugar cane, and cotton also occupy an important position in Africa.
West Africa
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West Africa includes Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Western Sahara (region) [6] , Nigeria and St. Helena (part of the United Kingdom). The area is about 6.56 million square kilometers. Among them, blacks account for about 85% of the total population, and the rest are mostly Arabs. The northern part of this area belongs to the Sahara Desert, the central part belongs to the Sudanese grassland, the southern part is the Upper Guinea Plateau, and there are narrow plains along the coast. Diamonds produced in this area accounted for about 12% of the world's total output, bauxite accounted for more than 90% of Africa's total output, cocoa and palm kernels accounted for more than 50% of the world's total output, palm oil accounted for about 38%, and peanuts accounted for about 11% , Coffee and natural rubber also occupy a certain position in the world.
Central Africa
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Africa Central Africa Central Africa usually includes Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Kinshasa), Sao Tome and Principe, and sometimes Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi are part of Central Africa. It covers an area of more than 5.36 million square kilometers and has a population of about 56 million, of which Bantu blacks account for about 80%, distributed in the south. The rest are Sudanese blacks, distributed in the north. The northern part of this area belongs to the Sahara Desert, the middle part belongs to the Sudanese steppe, the south part belongs to the Congo Basin, and the southwest part belongs to the Lower Guinea Plateau. The Congo Basin covers an area of about 3.37 million square kilometers, and the lowest part of the central part is only 200 meters above sea level. The surrounding plateaus and mountains are generally as high as 1,000 meters above sea level. The production of diamonds accounts for about 30% of the world's total output, manganese ore accounts for 12%, and the output of copper, cobalt, uranium, tin, radium, niobium, tantalum and other minerals occupy an important position in the world. Palm oil, palm kernel, natural rubber, and cocoa are also important.
South Africa
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Africa South Africa South Africa usually includes Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Republic of South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Comoros, Mauritius, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mayotte, Reunion Island, British Indian Ocean Territory, French Southern Hemisphere and Antarctic Territory, etc. It covers an area of more than 6.61 million square kilometers and has a population of about 100 million. Among them, the Bantu language family accounts for 85% of the black people, the Malay-Polynesian family of Malagasy people account for 9%, and the European white people account for more than 5%: the South African plateau is the terrain of the region. The main body is the Kalahadi Basin, the low-lying central plateau, surrounded by plateaus and mountains. The gold produced in this area accounts for about 71.83% of the world's total output, diamonds and chromium ore account for about 28.17%, diamonds, uranium, copper, vanadium, The production of lithium, beryllium, cobalt, and asbestos also occupies an important position in the world.
National situation
Note: Tshwane (also known as Pretoria) is only the administrative capital of South Africa, with the legislative capital Cape Town (Cape Town) and the judicial capital Bloemfontein (Bloemfontein).