Annexure-1, Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers six percent of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4 percent of the total land area. With 1.1 billion people as of 2013, it accounts for about 15% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, both theSuez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagoes. It has 54 fully recognized sovereign states ("countries"), nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition.

The countries in this table are categorized according to the scheme for geographic subregions used by the United Nations, and data included are per sources in cross-referenced articles. Where they differ, provisos are clearly indicated.

Regions of Africa:   Northern Africa   Horn of Africa   Western Africa   Central Africa   Eastern Africa   Southern Africa

Physical map of Africa

Political map of Africa

( The rank mentioned in the bracket is from poorest as in 2003 in Africa out of 53, of which first 29 countries are below the poverty line and the last 24 are developing countries.)

Name of region and territory, with flag	Area (km²)	Population[117]	Year	Density (per km²)	Capital
Northern Africa
Algeria (46 in marxist)	2,381,740	34,178,188	2009	14	Algiers
Canary Islands (Spain)	7,492	2,118,519	2010	226	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Ceuta (Spain)	20	71,505	2001	3,575	—
Egypt (43 in marxist)	1,001,450	82,868,000	2012	83	Cairo
Libya        ?	1,759,540	6,310,434	2009	4	Tripoli
Madeira (Portugal)	797	245,000	2001	307	Funchal
Melilla (Spain)	12	66,411	2001	5,534	—
Morocco (41)	446,550	34,859,364	2009	78	Rabat
Sudan (30)	1,861,484	30,894,000	2008	17	Khartoum
Tunisia (48)	163,610	10,486,339	2009	64	Tunis
Western Sahara ?	266,000	405,210	2009	2	El Aaiún
Horn of Africa
Djibouti  (40)	23,000	623,891	2012	22	Djibouti
Eritrea (8)	121,320	5,647,168	2009	47	Asmara
Ethiopia (1)	1,127,127	84,320,987	2012	75	Addis Ababa
Somalia ?	637,657	9,832,017	2009	15	Mogadishu
Eastern Africa
Burundi (3)	27,830	8,988,091	2009	323	Bujumbura
Comoros (29)	2,170	752,438	2009	347	Moroni
Kenya (25)	582,650	39,002,772	2009	66	Nairobi
Madagascar (17)	587,040	20,653,556	2009	35	Antananarivo
Malawi (7)	118,480	14,268,711	2009	120	Lilongwe
Mauritius (52)	2,040	1,284,264	2009	630	Port Louis
Mayotte (France) ?	374	223,765	2009	490	Mamoudzou
Mozambique (10)	801,590	21,669,278	2009	27	Maputo
Réunion (France)	2,512	743,981	2002	296	Saint-Denis
Rwanda (11)	26,338	10,473,282	2009	398	Kigali
Seychelles (53)	455	87,476	2009	192	Victoria
South Sudan (same as Sudan)	619,745	8,260,490	2008	13	Juba
Tanzania (16)	945,087	44,929,002	2009	43	Dodoma
Uganda (12)	236,040	32,369,558	2009	137	Kampala
Zambia (24)	752,614	11,862,740	2009	16	Lusaka
Zimbabwe (31)	390,580	11,392,629	2009	29	Harare
Central Africa
Angola (3)8	1,246,700	12,799,293	2009	10	Luanda
Cameroon (36)	475,440	18,879,301	2009	40	Yaoundé
Central African Republic (14)	622,984	4,511,488	2009	7	Bangui
Chad (13)	1,284,000	10,329,208	2009	8	N'Djamena
Republic of the Congo (35)	342,000	4,012,809	2009	12	Brazzaville
Democratic Republic of the Congo (2)	2,345,410	69,575,000	2012	30	Kinshasa
Equatorial Guinea (39)	28,051	633,441	2009	23	Malabo
Gabon (51)	267,667	1,514,993	2009	6	Libreville
São Tomé and Príncipe (21)	1,001	212,679	2009	212	São Tomé
Southern Africa
Botswana (50)	600,370	1,990,876	2009	3	Gaborone
Lesotho (34)	30,355	2,130,819	2009	70	Maseru
Namibia (45)	825,418	2,108,665	2009	3	Windhoek
South Africa (49)	1,219,912	51,770,560	2011	42	Bloemfontein, Cape Town,Pretoria[124]
Swaziland (42)	17,363	1,123,913	2009	65	Mbabane
Western Africa
	112,620	8,791,832	2009	78	Porto-Novo
Burkina Faso (18)	274,200	15,746,232	2009	57	Ouagadougou
Cape Verde (44)	4,033	429,474	2009	107	Praia
Côte d'Ivoire (37)	322,460	20,617,068	2009	64	Abidjan,[125] Yamoussoukro
Gambia ?	11,300	1,782,893	2009	158	Banjul
Ghana ((23)	239,460	23,832,495	2009	100	Accra
Guinea (27)	245,857	10,057,975	2009	41	Conakry
Guinea-Bissau (5)	36,120	1,533,964	2009	43	Bissau
Liberia (4)	111,370	3,441,790	2009	31	Monrovia
Mali (15)	1,240,000	12,666,987	2009	10	Bamako
Mauritania (26)	1,030,700	3,129,486	2009	3	Nouakchott
Niger (9)	1,267,000	15,306,252	2009	12	Niamey
Nigeria (22)	923,768	166,629,000	2012	180	Abuja
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)	420	7,728	2012	13	Jamestown
Senegal ((33)	196,190	13,711,597	2009	70	Dakar
Sierra Leone (6)	71,740	6,440,053	2009	90	Freetown
Togo (19)	56,785	6,019,877	2009	106	Lomé
Africa Total	30,368,609	1,001,320,281	2009	33