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Ten Most Populated Cities in Africa

Can you name the ten most populated cities in Africa?
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First submittedApril 25, 2021
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Population
Answer
21,323,000
Cairo
21,320,000
Lagos
17,071,000
Kinshasa
10,050,000
Johannesburg
10,400,676
Nairobi
Population
Answer
8,330,000
Luanda
6,368,000
Dar es Salaam
5,381,101
Alexandria
5,274,321
Khartoum
5,059,000
Abidjan
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22 Comments
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Level 62
Apr 25, 2021
Nice Quiz! 10/10
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Level 68
Apr 25, 2021
Thanks!
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Level 60
Apr 26, 2021
Great Quiz!
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Level 68
Apr 27, 2021
Thanks!
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Level 62
Apr 26, 2021
Wow! You got this quiz spotlighted! Great Job!
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Level 68
Apr 27, 2021
Thanks! I didn’t even notice that it was spotlighted!
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Level 68
May 1, 2021
This is a great quiz. Got them all except Luanda, which I should have had. I wonder why Kinshasa's population so vastly outpaces Brazzaville's.
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Level 68
May 1, 2021
Thank you! I think the reason Kinshasa is so populated is because of the area of the cities boundaries, and the fact that the D.R Congo is just very populated.
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Level 60
May 1, 2021
You might think about sourcing those numbers.
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Level 68
May 1, 2021
I went to a reliable source, found the data, then used the metropolitan cities along with some other big cities that wouldn’t have been that high or been there at all otherwise.
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Level 40
May 1, 2021
There's a comma missing in the Casablanca figure. :)
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Level 68
May 1, 2021
Thanks! This is now fixed.
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Level 49
Oct 17, 2022
It’s just a ,
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Level 45
May 1, 2021
Cape Town? 🤔 🧐
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Level 68
May 1, 2021
The metropolitan population of Cape Town is 3 million, not enough to make the list.
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Level 53
May 1, 2021
Great Quiz! Congrats on spotlight!
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Level 68
May 1, 2021
Thanks!
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Level 69
May 1, 2021
Isn't the population of Khartoum bigger than that of the last one?
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Level 68
May 1, 2021
Yes it is, actually! The changes have been made.
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Level 62
May 1, 2021
lol i finished like right as this happened and it didn't accept casablanca the second time i took it
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Level 68
May 1, 2021
Lol that must have been confusing
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Level 15
May 10, 2022
Good quiz a bit easy but ok. PS: There live 14 million people in Johannesburg.