Capitals of Africa

Learn the capitals of 54 African countries. Match each city with its country and check the requested capital role before answering.

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54 UN member states in the Africa set. Capital questions specify the role to answer.

How this set is defined

Country quizzes use the 193 UN member states. The Holy See and the State of Palestine are non-member observer states and are not included. Each member appears in one regional set: Russia and Cyprus are in Europe; Türkiye, the Caucasus states and Kazakhstan are in Asia. North America includes Central America and the Caribbean. These groupings define the quiz, not a position on statehood or disputed borders.

Not included

The Holy See (UN non-member observer State)
The State of Palestine (UN non-member observer State)
Other non-member entities
Dependent territories as separate answers

Last scope review: 2026-10-21

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Places and answers

Use the names and alternatives listed below. Capital questions accept the city for the role named in the prompt. Historical names and unlisted abbreviations are not accepted automatically.

Place	Capital role	Accepted names	Place notes
Algeria	Algiers — capital	Algiers	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Angola	Luanda — capital	Luanda	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Benin	Porto-Novo — constitutional capital Cotonou — seat of government	Porto-Novo / Cotonou	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Botswana	Gaborone — capital	Gaborone	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou — capital	Ouagadougou	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Burundi	Gitega — political capital: Bujumbura is the economic capital and is not accepted for this political-capital question.	Gitega	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Cabo Verde	Praia — capital	Praia	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Cameroon	Yaounde — capital	Yaounde	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Central African Republic	Bangui — capital	Bangui	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Chad	N'Djamena — capital	N'Djamena	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Comoros	Moroni — capital	Moroni	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Côte d’Ivoire	Yamoussoukro — capital	Yamoussoukro	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa — capital	Kinshasa	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Djibouti	Djibouti — capital	Djibouti	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Egypt	Cairo — capital	Cairo	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Equatorial Guinea	Ciudad de la Paz — capital designated by Decree-Law 1/2026: Declared capital on 2 January 2026. Malabo is the former capital and is not accepted for this current-role question.	Ciudad de la Paz; Ciudad de Paz	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified. Ciudad de la Paz was declared the capital on 2 January 2026; the older Malabo answer is not accepted for the new-capital role.
Eritrea	Asmara — capital	Asmara	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Eswatini	Mbabane — administrative capital Lobamba — royal and legislative capital	Mbabane / Lobamba	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa — capital	Addis Ababa	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Gabon	Libreville — capital	Libreville	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Gambia	Banjul — capital	Banjul	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Ghana	Accra — capital	Accra	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Guinea	Conakry — capital	Conakry	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau — capital	Bissau	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Kenya	Nairobi — capital	Nairobi	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Lesotho	Maseru — capital	Maseru	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Liberia	Monrovia — capital	Monrovia	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Libya	Tripoli — capital	Tripoli	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Madagascar	Antananarivo — capital	Antananarivo	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Malawi	Lilongwe — capital	Lilongwe	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Mali	Bamako — capital	Bamako	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Mauritania	Nouakchott — capital	Nouakchott	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Mauritius	Port Louis — capital	Port Louis	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Morocco	Rabat — capital	Rabat	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Mozambique	Maputo — capital	Maputo	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Namibia	Windhoek — capital	Windhoek	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Niger	Niamey — capital	Niamey	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Nigeria	Abuja — capital	Abuja	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville — capital	Brazzaville	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Rwanda	Kigali — capital	Kigali	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Sao Tome and Principe	Sao Tome — capital	Sao Tome	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Senegal	Dakar — capital	Dakar	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Seychelles	Victoria — capital	Victoria	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Sierra Leone	Freetown — capital	Freetown	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Somalia	Mogadishu — capital	Mogadishu	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
South Africa	Pretoria — administrative capital Cape Town — legislative capital Bloemfontein — judicial capital: Traditional judicial-capital designation; the Constitutional Court is in Johannesburg.	Pretoria / Cape Town / Bloemfontein	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
South Sudan	Juba — capital	Juba	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Sudan	Khartoum — capital	Khartoum	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Tanzania	Dodoma — capital	Dodoma	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Togo	Lome — capital	Lome	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Tunisia	Tunis — capital	Tunis	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Uganda	Kampala — capital	Kampala	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Zambia	Lusaka — capital	Lusaka	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.
Zimbabwe	Harare — capital	Harare	Included in this site’s 193 UN member-state set. Map outlines are simplified.

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equirectangular; regional standard parallel; US inset transforms when stated. Generalized Natural Earth geography; public domain. Coordinate projection is an equirectangular study view with standard-parallel scaling. Boundaries are not a political-status claim. Small or unrepresented polygons use explicitly marked representative points. Use the text list as an equivalent answer method.

Last scope review: 2026-10-21

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