List of countries in Africa with their political seat, national territorial area, number of inhabitants and population density.
| Country | Capital | Area | Population | Density |
| Algeria | Algiers | 2 381 741 km² | 42 200 000 pop. (census 2018) | 15,9/km² |
| Angola | Luanda | 1 246 700 km² | 25,789,024 pop. (2014 Census) | 20.69/km² |
| Benin | Porto Novo | 114,763 km² | 10,872,298 pop. (est 2016) | 94.8/km² |
| Botswana | Gaborone | 581,730 km² | 2,250,260 [pop. (est. 2016) | 3.7/km² |
| Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | 274,200 km² | 20,107,509 pop. (est. 2017) | 64/km² |
| Burundi | Gitega | 27,834 km² | 10,524,117 pop. (est. 2016) | 1,040.1/km² |
| Cameroon | Yaoundé | 475,442 km² | 23,439,189 pop. (est 2016) | 39.7/km² |
| Cape Verde | Praia | 4 033 km² | 524 833 pop. (census 2015) | 101/km² |
| Central African Republic | Bangui | 622,984 km² | 4,594,621 pop. (est. 2016) | 7.1/km² |
| Chad | N'Djamena | 1,284,000 km² | 13,670,084 pop. (est 2015) | 8.6/km² |
| Comoros | Moroni | 1,862 km² | 850,688 pop. (est. 2018) | 457/km² |
| Congo | Brazzaville | 342,000 km² | 5,125,821 pop. (est 2016) | 12.8/km² |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of the | Kinshasa | 2,345,409 km² | 78,736,153 pop. (est 2016) | 34.83/km² |
| Djibouti | Djibouti | 23,200 km² | 942,333 pop. (est. 2016) | 37.2/km² |
| Equatorial Guinea | Malabo | 28,050 km² | 1,221.49 pop. (est. 2016) | 43,57/km² |
| Eritrea | Asmara | 117,600 km² | 4,954.64 pop. (est. 2016) | 51.8/km² |
| Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 1,104,300 km² | 102,403,196 pop. (est. 2016) | 92.7/km² |
| Eswatini | Mbabane | 17,364 km² | 1,343,098 pop. (est. 2016) | 68.2/km² |
| Gabon | Libreville | 267,667 km² | 1,979,786 pop. (est. 2016) | 5,5/km² |
| Gambia | Banjul | 10,689 km² | 2,051,363 pop. (est. 2017) | 176.1/km² |
| Ghana | Accra | 239,567 km² | 28,308,301 pop. (est. 2016) | 101.5/km² |
| Guinea | Conakry | 245,836 km² | 12,395,924 pop. (est. 2016) | 40.9/km² |
| Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | 36,125 km² | 1,815,698 pop. (est 2016) | 46.9/km² |
| Ivory Coast | Yamoussoukro | 322,463 km² | 23,740,424 pop. (est. 2018) | 63.9/km² |
| Kenya | Nairobi | 580,367 km² | 49,125,325 pop. (est. 2017) | 78/km² |
| Lesotho | Maseru | 30,355 km² | 2,203,821 pop. (est. 2016) | 68.1/km² |
| Liberia | Monrovia | 111,369 km² | 4,503,000 pop. (est 2015) | 40.43/km² |
| Libya | Tripoli | 1,759,541 km² | 6,653,210 pop. (est. 2016) | 3.74/km² |
| Madagascar | Antananarivo | 587,041 km² | 24,894,551 pop. (est. 2016) | 54.4/km² |
| Malawi | Lilongwe | 118,484 km² | 18,091,575 pop. (est. 2016) | 128.8/km² |
| Mali | Bamako | 1,240,192 km² | 19,329,841 pop. (census 2018) | 11.7/km² |
| Mauritania | Nouakchott | 1,030,000 km² | 4,301,018 pop. (est 2016) | 3.4/km² |
| Mauritius | Port Louis | 2,040 km² | 1,265,577 pop. (est. 2018) | 618.24/km² |
| Morocco | Rabat | 710,850 or 446,550 km² | 35,740,000 pop. (census 2017) | 50.0/km² |
| Mozambique | Maputo | 801,590 km² | 28,829,476 pop. (est 2016) | 28.7/km² |
| Namibia | Windhoek | 825,615 km² | 2,606,971 pop. (est. 2017) | 3.2/km² |
| Niger | Niamey | 1,267,000 km² | 20,672,987 pop. (est. 2016) | 12.1/km² |
| Nigeria | Abuja | 923,768 km² | 198,577.125 pop. (est. 2018) | 215/km² |
| Rwanda | Kigali | 26,338 km² | 11,262,564 pop. (est 2015) | 445/km² |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | São Tomé | 1,001 km² | 199,910 pop. (est 2016) | 199.7/km² |
| Senegal | Dakar | 196,712 km² | 15,411,614 pop. (est. 2016) | 68.7/km² |
| Seychelles | Victoria | 459 km² | 94,228 pop. (est. 2016) | 205.3/km² |
| Sierra Leone | Freetown | 71,740 km² | 7,075,641 pop. (census 2015) | 79.4/km² |
| Somalia | Mogadishu | 637,657 km² | 11,031,386 pop. (est. 2017) | 19.31/km² |
| South Africa | Pretoria/Bloemfontein/Cape Town | 1,221,037 km² | 57,725,600 pop. (est. 2018) | 42.4/km² |
| South Sudan | Yuba | 619,745 km² | 12,230,730 pop. (est. 2016) | 13.33/km² |
| Sudan | Khartoum | 1,886,068 km² | 39,578,828 pop. (est. 2016) | 21.3/km² |
| Tanzania | Dodoma | 947,303 km² | 55,572,201 pop. (est. 2016) | 47.5/km² |
| Togo | Lomé | 56,785 km² | 7,965,055 pop. (est. 2017) | 125.9/km² |
| Tunisia | Tunis | 163,610 km² | 11,434,994 pop. (est. 2017) | 63/km² |
| Uganda | Kampala | 241,038 km² | 44,270,563 pop. (census 2018) | 157.1/km² |
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