| Country | Capital | Population | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | Abuja | 154,000,000 | 923,768 km² |
| Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 88,013,491 | 1,127,127 km² |
| Egypt | Cairo | 80,471,869 | 1,001,450 km² |
| Congo-Kinshasa | Kinshasa | 70,916,439 | 2,345,410 km² |
| South Africa | Pretoria | 49,000,000 | 1,219,912 km² |
| Tanzania | Dodoma | 41,892,895 | 945,087 km² |
| Kenya | Nairobi | 40,046,566 | 582,650 km² |
| Sudan | Khartoum | 35,000,000 | 1,861,484 km² |
| Algeria | Algiers | 34,586,184 | 2,381,740 km² |
| Morocco | Rabat | 33,848,242 | 446,550 km² |
| Uganda | Kampala | 33,398,682 | 236,040 km² |
| Ghana | Accra | 24,339,838 | 239,460 km² |
| Mozambique | Maputo | 22,061,451 | 801,590 km² |
| Madagascar | Antananarivo | 21,281,844 | 587,040 km² |
| Ivory Coast | Yamoussoukro | 21,058,798 | 322,460 km² |
| Cameroon | Yaoundé | 19,294,149 | 475,440 km² |
| Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | 16,241,811 | 274,200 km² |
| Niger | Niamey | 15,878,271 | 1,267,000 km² |
| Malawi | Lilongwe | 15,447,500 | 118,480 km² |
| Mali | Bamako | 13,796,354 | 1,240,000 km² |
| Zambia | Lusaka | 13,460,305 | 752,614 km² |
| Angola | Luanda | 13,068,161 | 1,246,700 km² |
| Zimbabwe | Harare | 13,061,000 | 390,580 km² |
| Senegal | Dakar | 12,323,252 | 196,190 km² |
| Rwanda | Kigali | 11,055,976 | 26,338 km² |
| Tunisia | Tunis | 10,589,025 | 163,610 km² |
| Chad | N'Djamena | 10,543,464 | 1,284,000 km² |
| Guinea | Conakry | 10,324,025 | 245,857 km² |
| Somalia | Mogadishu | 10,112,453 | 637,657 km² |
| Burundi | Bujumbura | 9,863,117 | 27,830 km² |
| Benin | Porto-Novo | 9,056,010 | 112,620 km² |
| South Sudan | Juba | 8,260,490 | 644,329 km² |
| Togo | Lomé | 6,587,239 | 56,785 km² |
| Libya | Tripoli | 6,461,454 | 1,759,540 km² |
| Eritrea | Asmara | 5,792,984 | 121,320 km² |
| Sierra Leone | Freetown | 5,245,695 | 71,740 km² |
| Central African Republic | Bangui | 4,844,927 | 622,984 km² |
| Liberia | Monrovia | 3,685,076 | 111,370 km² |
| Mauritania | Nouakchott | 3,205,060 | 1,030,700 km² |
| Congo-Brazzaville | Brazzaville | 3,039,126 | 342,000 km² |
| Namibia | Windhoek | 2,128,471 | 825,418 km² |
| Botswana | Gaborone | 2,029,307 | 600,370 km² |
| Lesotho | Maseru | 1,919,552 | 30,355 km² |
| Gambia | Banjul | 1,593,256 | 11,300 km² |
| Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | 1,565,126 | 36,120 km² |
| Gabon | Libreville | 1,545,255 | 267,667 km² |
| Swaziland | Mbabane | 1,354,051 | 17,363 km² |
| Mauritius | Port Louis | 1,294,104 | 2,040 km² |
| Equatorial Guinea | Malabo | 1,014,999 | 28,051 km² |
| Réunion | Saint-Denis | 776,948 | 2,517 km² |
| Comoros | Moroni | 773,407 | 2,170 km² |
| Djibouti | Djibouti | 740,528 | 23,000 km² |
| Cape Verde | Praia | 508,659 | 4,033 km² |
| Western Sahara | 273,008 | 266,000 km² | |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | São Tomé | 175,808 | 1,001 km² |
| Mayotte | Mamoudzou | 159,042 | 374 km² |
| Seychelles | Victoria | 88,340 | 455 km² |
| Saint Helena | 7,460 | 410 km² |