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| Most Populous Cities In Africa |
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This is a list of the most heavily populated cities in Africa, as opposed to the most populous metropolitan or urban areas. This list includes 2009 population estimates for all of those who are defined as living within the 'city limits', or 'city boundary', and are based on a mixture of official and independent sources.
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City |
Country |
2009 Calculation [1] |
| 1 |
Lagos |
Nigeria |
9,733,876 |
| 2 |
Kinshasa |
DR Congo |
9,518,988 |
| 3 |
Cairo |
Egypt |
8,026,454 |
| 4 |
Ibadan |
Nigeria |
5,003,747 |
| 5 |
Alexandria |
Egypt |
4,317,398 |
| 6 |
Abidjan |
Ivory Coast |
4,011,262 |
| 7 |
Cape Town |
South Africa |
3,569,359 |
| 8 |
Durban |
South Africa |
3,409,081 |
| 9 |
Gizeh |
Egypt |
3,347,333 |
| 10 |
Casablanca |
Morocco |
3,269,962 |
| 11 |
Āddīs Ābebā |
Ethiopia |
3,230,771 |
| 12 |
Nairobi |
Kenya |
3,141,065 |
| 13 |
Dar es Salaam |
Tanzania |
3,092,430 |
| 14 |
Luanda |
Angola |
2,583,981 |
| 15 |
Dakar |
Senegal |
2,535,431 |
| 16 |
Umm Durmān |
Sudan |
2,482,917 |
| 17 |
Accra |
Ghana |
2,365,018 |
| 18 |
Kano |
Nigeria |
2,359,248 |
| 19 |
Benin |
Nigeria |
2,324,188 |
| 20 |
Khartoum |
Sudan |
2,316,348 |
| 21 |
Algiers |
Algeria |
2,203,698 |
| 22 |
Douala |
Cameroon |
2,054,147 |
| 23 |
Johannesburg |
South Africa |
2,023,456 |
| 24 |
Port Harcourt |
Nigeria |
1,999,375 |
| 25 |
Kaduna |
Nigeria |
1,994,242 |
| 26 |
Conakry |
Guinea |
1,931,184 |
| 27 |
Kumasi |
Ghana |
1,852,449 |
| 28 |
Rabat |
Morocco |
1,787,307 |
| 29 |
Soweto |
South Africa |
1,755,247 |
| 30 |
Yaoundé |
Cameroon |
1,743,482 |
| 31 |
Bamako |
Mali |
1,728,444 |
| 32 |
Lubumbashi |
DR Congo |
1,713,852 |
| 33 |
Harare |
Zimbabwe |
1,696,018 |
| 34 |
Pretoria |
South Africa |
1,679,164 |
| 35 |
Muqdisho |
Somalia |
1,663,223 |
| 36 |
Antananarivo |
Madagascar |
1,612,632 |
| 37 |
Lomé |
Togo |
1,565,121 |
| 38 |
Kampala |
Uganda |
1,560,080 |
| 39 |
Mbuji-Mayi |
DR Congo |
1,546,705 |
| 40 |
Aba |
Nigeria |
1,529,729 |
| 41 |
Lusaka |
Zambia |
1,420,054 |
| 42 |
Ouagadougou |
Burkina Faso |
1,351,245 |
| 43 |
Abuja |
Nigeria |
1,243,152 |
| 44 |
Tripoli |
Libya |
1,203,637 |
| 45 |
Monrovia |
Liberia |
1,172,090 |
| 46 |
Brazzaville |
Republic of the Congo |
1,158,513 |
| 47 |
Port Elizabeth |
South Africa |
1,146,350 |
| 48 |
Maputo |
Mozambique |
1,120,245 |
| 49 |
Maiduguri |
Nigeria |
1,096,414 |
| 50 |
Shubra-El-Khema |
Egypt |
1,059,343 |
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City |
Country |
2009 Calculation [1] |
| 51 |
Ilorin |
Nigeria |
1,050,031 |
| 52 |
Fez |
Morocco |
1,024,587 |
| 53 |
Kolwezi |
DR Congo |
970,520 |
| 54 |
Kigali |
Rwanda |
965,398 |
| 55 |
Niamey |
Niger |
943,055 |
| 56 |
Lilongwe |
Malawi |
922,894 |
| 57 |
Marrakesh |
Morocco |
903,589 |
| 58 |
al-H̱arţūm Bah̨rī |
Sudan |
898,224 |
| 59 |
Warri |
Nigeria |
893,929 |
| 60 |
Pietermaritzburg |
South Africa |
891,607 |
| 61 |
Mombasa |
Kenya |
888,454 |
| 62 |
Onitsha |
Nigeria |
871,554 |
| 63 |
Freetown |
Sierra Leone |
827,985 |
| 64 |
Akure |
Nigeria |
804,104 |
| 65 |
Nouakchott |
Mauritania |
798,725 |
| 66 |
N'Djaména |
Chad |
776,126 |
| 67 |
Abeokuta |
Nigeria |
771,585 |
| 68 |
Blantyre |
Malawi |
760,064 |
| 69 |
Tangier |
Morocco |
746,516 |
| 70 |
Cotonou |
Benin |
745,726 |
| 71 |
Tunis |
Tunisia |
741,427 |
| 72 |
Bulawayo |
Zimbabwe |
740,086 |
| 73 |
Libreville |
Gabon |
732,885 |
| 74 |
Matola |
Mozambique |
729,469 |
| 75 |
Benghazi |
Libya |
711,820 |
| 76 |
Enugu |
Nigeria |
698,136 |
| 77 |
Wahrān |
Algeria |
679,877 |
| 78 |
Zaria |
Nigeria |
667,446 |
| 79 |
Benoni |
South Africa |
654,509 |
| 80 |
Āsmara |
Eritrea |
648,530 |
| 81 |
Oshogbo |
Nigeria |
647,652 |
| 82 |
Bouaké |
Ivory Coast |
641,787 |
| 83 |
Pointe Noire |
Republic of the Congo |
634,995 |
| 84 |
Jos |
Nigeria |
619,122 |
| 85 |
Djibouti |
Djibouti |
610,608 |
| 86 |
Kisangani |
DR Congo |
600,011 |
| 87 |
Ife |
Nigeria |
599,924 |
| 88 |
Port Said |
Egypt |
598,118 |
| 89 |
Meknes |
Morocco |
586,197 |
| 90 |
Welkom |
South Africa |
584,719 |
| 91 |
Bloemfontein |
South Africa |
583,253 |
| 92 |
Tembisa |
South Africa |
573,022 |
| 93 |
Bangui |
Central African Republic |
563,383 |
| 94 |
Agadir |
Morocco |
556,324 |
| 95 |
Mwanza |
Tanzania |
553,342 |
| 96 |
Garoua |
Cameroon |
546,060 |
| 97 |
Suez |
Egypt |
538,188 |
| 98 |
Niyālā |
Sudan |
531,022 |
| 99 |
Boma |
DR Congo |
527,725 |
| 100 |
Likasi |
DR Congo |
521,341 |
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[1] "World: largest cities and towns and statistics of their population" World Gazetteer - All statistics © Stefan Helders, www.world-gazetteer.com. Stefan Helders has been independently collating data relating to population statistics since 1998 on what is now known as the World Gazetteer website. According to Helders... "If possible, official data sources are used. In many cases however no official figures are available. In that case, secondary sources such as year books, encyclopediae, atlases etc. are used. I have also received data from other stats lovers". Along with another useful population statistics website called CityPopulation.de, Stefan Helders/World Gazetteer provides the most accurate and up-to-date analysis of population levels in the World's cities and metropolitan areas. |
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