African Countries

List of African Countries and their capitals, currencies and languages

1. S/N Flag Name Capital Currency Official language
1 Algeria Algiers Budju Arabic
2 Sheet1!A1 Angola Luanda Angolar Portuguese
Porto-Novo (official)
Cotonou (seat of government)
English
Setswana
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4
Benin West African CFA franc French
Botswana Gaborone Pula
Setswana
5 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou West African CFA franc French
Kirundi
French
French
English
8 Cape Verde Praia Cape Verdean escudo Portuguese
French
Sango
French
Arabic
Comorian
Arabic
French
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7
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10
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Central African Republic Bangui Central African CFA franc
Chad N'Djamena Central African CFA franc
Cameroon Yaoundé Central African CFA franc
Comoros Moroni Comorian franc
Burundi Bujumbura Rupie

2. 12 Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) Brazzaville Central African CFA francFrench
Yamoussoukro (official)
Abidjan (seat of government)
14
Democratic Republic of the
Congo (Congo-Kinshasa)
Kinshasa Congolese franc French
French
Arabic
16 Egypt Cairo Egyptian gineih Arabic
Spanish
French
Portuguese
Tigrinya
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15
17
French
Djibouti Djibouti Djiboutian franc
Equatorial Guinea Malabo Equatorial Guinean peseta
Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) West African CFA franc
Tigrinya
Arabic
English
19 Ethiopia Addis Ababa Birr Amharic
20 Gabon Libreville Central African CFA francFrench
Mandinka
English
English
Akan
23 Guinea Conakry Guinean franc French
24 Guinea-Bissau Bissau West African CFA franc Portuguese
Swahili
English
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Ghana Accra British West African pound
Kenya Nairobi Kenyan shilling
Eritrea Asmara Tallero
Gambia Banjul British West African pound

3. English
Sesotho
27 Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar English
28 Libya Tripoli Dinar Arabic
Malagasy
French
English
Chichewa
31 Mali Bamako West African CFA franc French
32 Mauritania Nouakchott Ouguiya Arabic
Mauritian Creole
French
English
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Malawi Lilongwe Kwacha
Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian rupee
Lesotho Maseru Lesotho loti
Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy ariary
34 Mayotte Mamoudzou Euro French
Arabic
Berber
36 Mozambique Maputo Mozambican metical Portuguese
37 Namibia Windhoek Namibian dollar English
38 Niger Niamey West African CFA franc French
39 Nigeria Abuja Naira English
40 Réunion Saint-Denis
Overseas department of
France
Kinyarwanda
English
French
Morocco Rabat Moroccan dirham
Rwanda Kigali Rwandan franc
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4. Jamestown (Saint Helena) Saint Helena pound
Georgetown (Ascension Island)Pound sterling
Edinburgh of the Seven
Seas (Tristan da Cunha)
43 Sao Tome and Principe São Tomé Dobra Portuguese
44 Senegal Dakar CFA franc French
Seychellois Creole
French
English
46 Sierra Leone Freetown Leone English
Somali
Arabic
Somali
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Somalia Mogadishu Somali shilling
Saint Helena, Ascension and
Tristan da Cunha
Seychelles Victoria Seychellois rupee
Somali
Arabic
Afrikaans
English
Southern Ndebele
Northern Sotho
Southern Sotho
Swazi
Tsonga
Tswana
Venda
Xhosa
Zulu
50 South Sudan Juba South Sudanese pound English
Pretoria (administrative/execut
ive)
Cape Town (legislative)
Bloemfontein (judicial)
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49 South Africa South African rand
Somaliland Hargeisa Somaliland shilling

5. Arabic
English
Mbabane (administrative) English
Lobamba (royal and legislative) Swati
Dodoma (official) Swahili
Dar es Salaam (seat of
government)
English
54 Togo Lomé CFA franc French
55 Tunisia Tunis Tunisian dinar Arabic
Swahili
English
Luganda
Lilangeni
Tanzania
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Uganda Kampala Ugandan shilling
Swaziland
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Tanzanian shilling
Sudan Khartoum Sudanese pound
Luganda
Moroccan dirham
Algerian dinar
Mauritanian ouguiya
58 Zambia Lusaka Zambian kwacha English
English
Shona
Sindebele
various59 Zimbabwe Harare
See respective
claimants
None Western Sahara
None 
Disputed territory
between Morocco and
the  Sahrawi Arab Democratic
Republic
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