African Cities by Wikipedia Descriptions - Statistics

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Hint	City	% Correct
Located on the shore of Table Bay, it's the oldest urban area in South Africa	Cape Town	99%
It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing north from Lake Victoria, and the Blue Nile	Khartoum	82%
It has two cultural centres, as well as a municipal theatre that is used by international theatre groups and a summer festival, the International Festival of Carthage, which is held in July.	Tunis	81%
Became an important center of Hellenistic civilization	Alexandria	74%
Although it was filmed entirely in Los Angeles and doesn't feature a single Arab or North African character with a speaking role	Casablanca	74%
It is also the world's largest Francophone urban area	Kinshasa	72%
The judicial capital of the nation	Bloemfontein	71%
Tangier to the northwest, 246 km (153 mi) from Casablanca, 169 km (105 mi) from Rabat to the west, and 387 km (240 mi) from Marrakesh to the southwest	Fes	70%
Has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand minarets"	Cairo	66%
Was founded in 1899 by the colonial authorities in British East Africa, as a rail depot on the Uganda Railway	Nairobi	63%
The principal maritime port for imports to and exports from neighboring Ethiopia	Djibouti	59%
The largest city in Cameroon and its economic capital	Douala	58%
It is one of two national capitals to be named after a U.S. President.	Monrovia	55%
It is where the African Union is headquartered and where its predecessor the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was based.	Addis Ababa	50%
Served as the capital of the British Gold Coast between 1877 and 1957 and has since transitioned into a modern metropolis	Accra	49%
A regional trade centre in medieval times, where caravans met to exchange salt from the Sahara Desert for gold, ivory, and slaves from the Sahel	Timbuktu	36%
from Arabic: دار السلام‎, literally 'house of peace'	Dar es Salaam	35%
Portuguese established a presence on the island of Gorée off the coast of Cap-Vert and used it as a base for the Atlantic slave trade	Dakar	34%
On 11 September 2012, the U.S. diplomatic mission was attacked by a heavily armed group of 125–150 gunmen, whose trucks bore the logo of Ansar al-Sharia	Benghazi	30%
At the Second Battle Allied forces broke the Axis line and forced them all the way back to Tunisia	El Alamein	24%
Also known by its colonial shorthand form "Tana"	Antananarivo	17%
It is 56 kilometres (35 mi) north of Moanda (DR Congo), 70 kilometres (43 mi) north of Congo River estuary and 137 kilometres (85 mi) south of Pointe-Noire (Rep. Congo)	Cabinda	17%

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