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List of cities in Africa by population

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Cairo, Egypt is the largest metropolis in Africa, the Middle East and the Arab world.
Lagos, Nigeria is one of the primary economic and logistical turntables in West Africa.
Oceanside of Luanda, the Angolan metropolis.
East Africa's central place of business and Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Great Mosque in the city of Kano, the historical centre and trans-Saharan trade focus in Northern Nigeria.
Kampala is the hub of Uganda.
Cape Peninsula of Cape Town, Africa's southernmost city and the second largest one in South Africa, also its legislative capital.
Addis Ababa is the core of Ethiopia and seat of the African Union.
Aerial view of the pyramid complex and the city of Giza, Egypt, forming part of the Cairo agglomeration.
Downtown Algiers: Algeria's centre.
The ancient royal Rovan'i Manjakamiadana overlooking Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo.
Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis, the Tunisian commercial turntable.
Aerial view of Harare, Zimbabwe's core city.
Mombasa, Kenya's historical, second largest city, is its gate to the Indian Ocean trade.
The Jemaa el-Fnaa marketplace in the Moroccan Imperial city of Marrakesh is an old key to the trans-Saharan trade.

The following is a list of the 100 largest cities in Africa by urban population using the most recent official estimate. This reflects only cities located geographically in Africa including related islands.

List

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Bold represents largest city in country.

Italic represents capital city.

Rank City Country Population Year of estimate
1 Cairo Egypt 23,200,000 2026[1]
2 Lagos Nigeria 21,900,000 2026[1]
3 Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo 16,900,000 2026[1]
4 Johannesburg South Africa 15,100,000 2026[1]
5 Luanda Angola 10,400,000 2026[1]
6 Khartoum Sudan 7,400,000 2026[1]
7 Abidjan Ivory Coast 7,300,000 2026[1]
8 Nairobi Kenya 7,150,000 2026[1]
9 Accra Ghana 7,050,000 2026[1]
10 Dar es Salaam Tanzania 6,900,000 2026[1]
11 Alexandria Egypt 6,350,000 2026[1]
12 Bamako Mali 5,950,000 2026[1]
13 Kano Nigeria 5,550,000 2026[1]
14 Kampala Uganda 5,350,000 2026[1]
15 Cape Town South Africa 5,200,000 2026[1]
16 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 4,950,000 2026[1]
17 Casablanca Morocco 4,500,000 2026[1]
18 Giza Egypt 4,458,135 2023[2]
19 Algiers Algeria 4,400,000 2026[1]
20 Dakar Senegal 4,375,000 2026[1]
21 Ekurhuleni South Africa 4,066,691 2022[3]
22 City of Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa 4,040,315 2022[4]
23 Conakry Guinea 4,000,000 2026[1]
24 Durban South Africa 3,975,000 2026[1]
25 Douala Cameroon 3,950,000 2026[1]
26 Yaoundé Cameroon 3,900,000 2026[1]
27 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso 3,550,000 2026[1]
28 Ibadan Nigeria 3,475,000 2026[1]
29 Antananarivo Madagascar 3,250,000 2026[1]
30 Abuja Nigeria 3,175,000 2026[1]
31 Lusaka Zambia 3,100,000 2026[1]
32 Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of the Congo 2,975,000 2026[1]
33 Kumasi Ghana 2,950,000 2026[1]
34 Omdurman Sudan 2,805,396 2022[5]
35 Tunis Tunisia 2,775,000 2026[1]
36 Lomé Togo 2,725,000 2026[1]
37 Harare Zimbabwe 2,700,000 2026[1]
38 Maputo Mozambique 2,650,000 2026[1]
39 Mbuji-Mayi Democratic Republic of the Congo 2,600,000 2026[1]
40 Brazzaville Republic of the Congo 2,550,000 2026[1]
41 Mogadishu Somalia 2,325,000 2026[1]
42 Port Harcourt Nigeria 2,300,000 2026[1]
43 Cotonou Benin 2,225,000 2026[1]
44 Rabat Morocco 2,150,000 2026[1]
45 Kigali Rwanda 2,050,000 2026[1]
46 Kaduna Nigeria 2,025,000 2026[1]
47 N'Djamena Chad 2,025,000 2026[1]
48 Monrovia Liberia 2,000,000 2026[1]
49 Tripoli Libya 1,930,000 2026[1]
50 Benin City Nigeria 1,840,000 2026[1]
51 Matola Mozambique 1,796,872 2022[6]
52 Bangui Central African Republic 1,740,000 2026[1]
53 Oran Algeria 1,670,000 2026[1]
54 Niamey Niger 1,580,000 2026[1]
55 Nouakchott Mauritania 1,550,000 2026[1]
56 Pointe-Noire Republic of the Congo 1,530,000 2026[1]
57 Freetown Sierra Leone 1,460,000 2026[1]
58 Tangier Morocco 1,460,000 2026[1]
59 Kananga Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,420,000 2026[1]
60 Mombasa Kenya 1,400,000 2026[1]
61 Mwanza Tanzania 1,390,000 2026[1]
62 Benguela Angola 1,370,000 2026[1]
63 Touba Senegal 1,370,000 2026[1]
64 Kisangani Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,340,000 2026[1]
65 Fez Morocco 1,330,000 2026[1]
66 Bujumbura Burundi 1,320,000 2026[1]
67 Aba Nigeria 1,310,000 2026[1]
68 Agadir Morocco 1,300,000 2026[1]
69 Shubra el-Kheima Egypt 1,275,700 2023[2]
70 Onitsha Nigeria 1,250,000 2026[1]
71 Lilongwe Malawi 1,250,000 2026[1]
72 Arusha Tanzania 1,230,000 2026[1]
73 Maiduguri Nigeria 1,220,000 2026[1]
74 Banjul Gambia 1,210,000 2026[1]
75 Gqeberha South Africa 1,200,000 2026[1]
76 Sousse Tunisia 1,200,000 2026[1]
77 Ilorin Nigeria 1,190,000 2026[1]
78 Abomey-Calavi Benin 1,188,736 2022[7]
79 Sokoto Nigeria 1,180,000 2026[1]
80 Nnewi Nigeria 1,176,550 2022[8]
81 Marrakesh Morocco 1,150,000 2026[1]
82 Jos Nigeria 1,140,000 2026[1]
83 Bukavu Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,140,000 2026[1]
84 Bobo Dioulasso Burkina Faso 1,130,000 2026[1]
85 Asmara Eritrea 1,120,000 2026[1]
86 Zaria Nigeria 1,080,000 2026[1]
87 Zanzibar Tanzania 1,080,000 2026[1]
88 Hargeisa Somalia ( Somaliland) 1,079,377 2022[9]
89 Goma Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,050,000 2026[1]
90 Enugu Nigeria 1,040,000 2026[1]
91 Tshikapa Democratic Republic of the Congo 1,023,575 2022[10]
92 Nyala Sudan 1,012,312 2022[11]
93 Blantyre Malawi 994,911 2022[12]
94 Misratah Libya 953,472 2022[13]
95 Nampula Mozambique 927,472 2022[14]
96 Warri Nigeria 910,000 2022[15]
97 Port Said Egypt 790,000 2024[16]
98 Ikorodu Nigeria 781,500 2022[17]
99 Suez Egypt 690,000 2024[16]
100 Mansoura, Egypt Egypt 600,000 2024[16]

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The 40 largest cities in Africa (those with over 5 million inhabitants highlighted)

See also

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