THE AFRICAN CAPITALS

THE AFRICAN CAPITALS. A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational entity, usually as its seat of the government. A capital is typically a city that physically encompasses the government’s offices and meeting places; the status as capital is often designated by its law or constitution. In some jurisdictions, including several countries, different branches of government are in different settlements, sometimes meaning multiple official capitals. In some cases, a distinction is made between the official (constitutional) capital and the seat of government, which is in another place.

English-language news media often use the name of the capital city as an alternative name for the government of the country of which it is the capital, as a form of metonymy. For example, “relations between Washington and London” refers to “relations between the United States and the United Kingdom“.

Capitals of All 54 Independent African Nations

Listed below are the capitals of all 54 independent African Nations. We believe this is the only such list and historical profile of these capitals on the Internet. We have also listed the capitals of majority-black nations in Latin America and the West Indies.

Abuja, Nigeria
Accra, Ghana
Addis Abba, Ethiopia
Algiers, Algeria
Antananarivo, Madagascar
Asmera, Eritrea
Bamako, Mali
Bangui, Central African Republic
Banjul, Gambia
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Bujumbura, Burundi
Cairo, Egypt
Conakry, Guinea
Dakar, Senegal
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Djibouti City, Djibouti
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Gaborone, Botswana
Harare, Zimbabwe
Juba, South Sudan
Kampala, Uganda
Khartoum, Sudan
Kigali, Rwanda
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Libreville, Gabon
Lilongwe, Malawi
Lome, Togo
Luanda, Angola
Lusaka, Zambia
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
Maputo, Mozambique
Maseru, Lesotho
Mbabane, Swaziland
Mogadishu, Somalia
Monrovia, Liberia
Moroni, Comoros
Nairobi, Kenya
N’Djamena, Chad
Niamey, Niger
Nouakchott, Mauritania
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Port Louis, Mauritius
Pretoria, South Africa
Porto Novo, Benin
Praia, Cape Verde
Rabat, Morocco
Tripoli, Libya
Tunis, Tunisia
Victoria, Seychelles
Windhoek, Namibia
Yamoussoukro, Cote d’Ivoire
Yaoundé, Cameroon