All 1M+ Cities in Africa on a Map

Can you name all the urban areas in Africa with a population over 1 million - with the help of a map?

Source: citypopulation.de

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Population	City	Country
22,500,000	Cairo	Egypt
20,700,000	Lagos	Nigeria
15,600,000	Kinshasa	D.R. Congo
14,600,000	Johannesburg	South Africa
9,350,000	Luanda	Angola
7,050,000	Khartoum	Sudan
6,800,000	Abidjan	Ivory Coast
6,700,000	Nairobi	Kenya
6,600,000	Accra	Ghana
6,250,000	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania
6,200,000	Alexandria	Egypt
5,450,000	Bamako	Mali
5,200,000	Kano	Nigeria
4,975,000	Cape Town	South Africa
4,775,000	Casablanca	Morocco
4,725,000	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia
4,250,000	Algiers	Algeria
4,125,000	Kampala	Uganda
3,925,000	Dakar	Senegal
3,850,000	Durban	South Africa
3,825,000	Yaounde	Cameroon
3,775,000	Douala	Cameroon
3,325,000	Ibadan	Nigeria
3,300,000	Ouagadougou	Burkina Faso
3,050,000	Antananarivo	Madagascar
2,900,000	Abuja	Nigeria
2,875,000	Kumasi	Ghana
2,875,000	Conakry	Guinea
2,750,000	Lubumbashi	D.R. Congo
2,700,000	Tunis	Tunisia
2,625,000	Harare	Zimbabwe
2,550,000	Lome	Togo
2,525,000	Maputo	Mozambique
2,425,000	Mbuji-Mayi	D.R. Congo
2,400,000	Brazzaville	R. Congo
2,325,000	Lusaka	Zambia
2,200,000	Port Harcourt	Nigeria
2,175,000	Mogadishu	Somalia

Population	City	Country
2,150,000	Rabat	Morocco
2,075,000	Cotonou	Benin
1,930,000	Kaduna	Nigeria
1,890,000	Kigali	Rwanda
1,880,000	N'Djamena	Chad
1,870,000	Monrovia	Liberia
1,820,000	Tripoli	Libya
1,750,000	Benin City	Nigeria
1,620,000	Bangui	C.A.R.
1,600,000	Oran	Algeria
1,480,000	Niamey	Niger
1,400,000	Nouakchott	Mauritania
1,390,000	Benguela	Angola
1,380,000	Freetown	Sierra Leone
1,350,000	Fes	Morocco
1,340,000	Mombasa	Kenya
1,330,000	Kananga	D.R. Congo
1,310,000	Agadir	Morocco
1,260,000	Kisangani	D.R. Congo
1,250,000	Aba	Nigeria
1,220,000	Tangier	Morocco
1,200,000	Onitsha	Nigeria
1,200,000	Touba	Senegal
1,190,000	Gqeberha	South Africa
1,180,000	Pointe-Noire	R. Congo
1,170,000	Lilongwe	Malawi
1,170,000	Marrakech	Morocco
1,160,000	Maiduguri	Nigeria
1,150,000	Sousse	Tunisia
1,130,000	Ilorin	Nigeria
1,120,000	Banjul	Gambia
1,100,000	Sokoto	Nigeria
1,090,000	Jos	Nigeria
1,070,000	Bobo-Dioulasso	Burkina Faso
1,060,000	Bukavu	D.R. Congo
1,060,000	Mwanza	Tanzania
1,050,000	Asmara	Eritrea
1,020,000	Zaria	Nigeria

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13 Comments

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Level 71

Mar 30, 2020

Brilliant work!

Level 69

Mar 30, 2020

Level 25

Jan 6, 2022

According to citypopulation.de Abuja is now at 3.725M population ^^ Nice quizz !

Level 59

Feb 28, 2022

Great quiz! Nominated!

Level 74

Feb 28, 2022

Banjul, officially the City of Banjul, is the capital and fourth largest city of The Gambia. It is the centre of the eponymous administrative division which is home to an estimated 400,000 residents. So what's it doing here?

Level 75

Feb 28, 2022

This quiz uses urban area populations according to citypopulation.de (the standard source for city quizzes on Jetpunk). If you have a problem with the populations listed, take it up with them, not me.

Level 61

Feb 28, 2022

Gqeberha should work for Port Elizabeth, as it's the official name

Level 75

Feb 28, 2022

Okay

Level 76

Jan 14, 2023

Always the bloated citypopulation numbers.

Level 77

Feb 23, 2024

bro you gotta accept osogbo

Level 56

Mar 6, 2024

I got 63/79 but I missed easier ones like Tangier, Agadir and Sousse.

Level 71

Jun 14, 2024

Nominated!

Level 72

Aug 6, 2024

Osogbo is misspelled as Oshogbo

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