Capitals of Africa

Some of the important details about the list of countries and territory capitals in Africa are mentioned below

Algeria - Algiers

It is the third largest city
Its name is from French and Catalan ‘Alger’
It is the chief economic, political as well as cultural center of Algeria

Angola - Luanda

The city is the most metropolitan capital city where most of the people speak Portuguese
It was founded by one of the Portuguese explorers Paulo Dias de Novais in January 1576
It is one of the oldest colonial cities in Africa

Benin-Porto - Novo

Initially, it was called Ajase where it was the capital of the Yoruba state of Popo
It was renamed in 1730 so that it could become the port for the slave trade

Botswana - Gaborone

It is the government capital and Botswana’s economic capital
It is the largest city in the country
Here, the population growth is about 3.4% which is the highest in the country

Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou

It is the communications, administrative, cultural, and economic center
It is also called one of the largest cities in the country
Its primary industries of it are textiles and food processing

Burundi - Gitega

It is the second largest city
Later in 2018 December, the president announced that Gitega would finally return to its former status of the political capital as well as the parliament vote in 2019 January

Cabo Verde - Praia

It is the political, economic, and cultural center of the country
It is home to around 160,000 residents
Praia also serves the purpose of agricultural products for example coffee, sugarcane, bananas

Cameroon - Yaounde

It is the second largest city in the country behind Douala
It comprises the major industries for example dairy, tobacco, beer
It also serves as the center of distribution for coffee, rubber

Central African Republic - Bangui

It is the capital of the country and is the largest city
The city also serves as the trade and commercial center for the correspondence country that is the Central African Republic

Chad - N’Djamena

N’Djamena stands for ‘place of rest’ in Arabic terms
The city acts as a regional market for dates, salts, and grains
The chief industries in the city are fish, cotton, and meat

Comoros - Moroni

It is not only the capital and largest city but also the seat of Comoros’s government
Moroni is a producer of several goods for example soft drinks, vanilla, woods, and types of cement

Congo, Democratic Republic - Kinshasa

Here, it acts as a home to around 13% of the population of the country
Although, it is responsible for about 85% of the economy of the country when it comes to the case of GDP

Republic of the Congo - Brazzaville

It is a trading, industrial port settlement center
UNESCO planned Brazzaville as a City of Music
Here, the capital is both the administrative as well as the financial center of the country

Cote d'Ivoire - Yamoussoukro

It is the largest city as well as the economic center of the country
However, the capital does not have any ministry, parliament, or embassy of its own

Djibouti - Djibouti

Here, its primary economic activity is cargo operations at the very Djibouti’s Port
Djibouti is the hub for financial industries such as retail, construction

Egypt - Cairo

Here, it has the 15th of the largest metro area in the entire world
It also has its architecture and acts as a host to ancient sites for example Pyramids of Giza
It is one of the wealthiest cities in Africa

Equatorial Guinea - Malabo

It is the oldest city in the country
It serves as the financial as well as the commercial center
However, the economy of the capital is based on trade and administration

Eritrea - Asmara

It is the sixth highest capital in the world
UNESCO declared it the world heritage site

Eswatini - Mbabane

It is Eswatini’s tourism center
It also acts as the commercial hub for iron as well as tin mined

Ethiopia - Addis Ababa

It serves as the home to the African Union headquarters
It is one of the largest city

Gabon - Libreville

It acts host to brewing industries and shipbuilding as well as sawmills
It also exports rubber, cocoa, and rubber

The Gambia - Banjul

It is the administrative and economic center of the Gambia
It serves as home to palm wood, beeswax, pal oils

Ghana - Accra

It is the most populated city in Africa
It has the 13th largest metropolitan area in Africa

Guinea - Conakry

It acts as a host for the Atlantic port
It has about one-sixth of the total population of the country

Kenya - Nairobi

It serves as a home to the largest companies in Africa
It is one of the oldest cities in Kenya

Lesotho - Maseru

It has grown productively such as in tourism and foreign investment

Liberia - Monrovia

It is named after James Monroe who was the U.S President
It is one of the most populous cities in the country

Libya - Tripoli

It acts as the leading center when it comes to communication, finance, and banking
There has been a positive jump in the foreign investment

Madagascar - Antananarivo

It is home to around 1.3 million people
It is the highest national capital by elevation

Malawi - Lilongwe

It primarily consists of tourism, retail, finance, tobacco
There has been a constructive growth in the city population

Mali - Bamako

It lies on fertile land which is located near the Niger River
It is known as the seventh-largest capital in the West African

Mauritania - Nouakchott

It acts as the hub of the economy of Mauritania
It serves as a home to the deepwater port

Mauritius - Port Louis

It acts as the host of the political, economic, and cultural center
It was founded by Bertrand Francois in 1735

Morocco - Rabat

It acts as the administrative center
It is the seventh largest capital

Mozambique - Maputo

This is an actual port site that is located on the Indian Ocean with an economy that is especially centered on commerce
It is one of the most populous city

Namibia - Windhoek

It acts as the economic, and political center of Namibia
Some of the organizations situated there are a cultural institutions and national enterprise

Niger - Niamey

It is located in the growing region of the pearl millet
It acts as a home to manufacturing industries such as cement, bricks

Nigeria - Abuja

It was built primarily in the 1980s and was replaced by the former capital of Lagos
It is one of the fastest growing cities in Africa

Rwanda - Kigali

It is the financial as well as an economic hub of Rwanda
It also hosts the main port of entry in the country

Sao Tome and Principe - Sao Tome

It was founded in the 15th century
It is one of the oldest colonial cities in Africa

Senegal - Dakar

It is the largest city in the entire mainland Africa

Seychelles - Victoria

Its economy is boosted by tourism
It is located on the Mahe’s largest island

Sierra Leone – Freetown

It is one of the cultural, educational, and financial centers
It has a culmination of diversity in the terms of ethics

Somalia - Mogadishu

It is the financial and commercial center
It also has a productive textile industry

South Africa - Cape town, Bloemfontein, and Pretoria

The immense struggles between political and cultural parties lead to the three capitals of the colonialism

South Sudan - Juba

The capital has numerous merchants, regional as well as international businessmen
It is one of the largest cities in South Sudan

Sudan - Khartoum

It is the trade as well as an economic center in entire Northern Africa
The industries comprise textiles, petroleum products, manufacturing

Tanzania – Dodoma

Ever since 1974, it is the designated national capital of the country
The population is around 41,000 according to the 2020 census

Togo - Lome

It is one of the most important trading ports which is because of the neighboring countries
The exports here comprise cotton, phosphates, palm oil, coffee

Tunisia – Tunis

It is the third largest city in the entire Maghreb region
It serves as the center of the cultural, administrative, commercial,l and political center of the country

Uganda - Kampala

It is a city that is the fastest growing in Africa
It is also the largest city in Uganda

Zambia - Lusaka

It is the center of the country of commerce and government
It connects four of the highways of Zambia that run between north, south, east, and west

Zimbabwe - Harare

It is home to around 3.1 million inhabitants
It was renamed on the celebration of the second anniversary

Thus, these are everything that was there to know about the countries of Africa and the respective capitals.

Country	Capital city
Algeria	Algiers
Angola	Luanda
Benin	Porto-Novo
Botswana	Gaborone
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou
Burundi	Gitega
Cabo Verde	Praia
Cameroon	Yaounde
Central African Republic	Bangui
Chad	N'Djamena
Comoros	Moroni
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	Kinshasa
Congo, Republic of the	Brazzaville
Cote d'Ivoire	Yamoussoukro
Djibouti	Djibouti (city)
Egypt	Cairo
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo (de jure), Oyala (seat of government)
Eritrea	Asmara
Eswatini	Mbabane (administrative), Lobamba (legislative, royal)
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	Victoria
Sierra Leone	Freetown
Somalia	Mogadishu
South Africa	Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)
South Sudan	Juba
Sudan	Khartoum
Tanzania	Dodoma
Togo	Lomé
Tunisia	Tunis
Uganda	Kampala
Zambia	Lusaka
Zimbabwe	Harare