This is a list of the largest
metropolitan areas in
Africa.
| Rank | City | Country | Population (2007) |
|---|
| 1 | Cairo-Giza | | 15,907,574 |
| 2 | Lagos | | 11,615,563 |
| 3 | Kinshasa-Brazzaville | /
| 9,575,626 |
| 4 | Khartoum-Umm Durman-Bahri | | 8,363,915 |
| 5 | Johannesburg-Soweto | | 7,372,314 |
| 6 | Algiers | | 5,937,183 |
| 7 | Abidjan | | 5,317,003 |
| 8 | Ibadan | | 4,712,877 |
| 9 | Cape Town | | 4,709,212 |
| 10 | Alexandria | | 4,368,095 |
| 11 | Luanda | | 4,040,762 |
| 12 | Kano | | 4,033,069 |
| 13 | Nairobi | | 3,922,110 |
| 14 | Accra | | 3,554,218 |
| 15 | Durban | | 3,368,631 |
| 16 | Casablanca | | 3,209,054 |
| 17 | Harare-Chitungwiza | | 2,919,512 |
| 18 | Dar es Salaam | | 2,915,979 |
| 19 | Addis Abeba | | 2,888,248 |
| 20 | Mogadishu | | 2,855,805 |
| 21 | Dakar | | 2,461,682 |
| 22 | Lusaka | | 2,389,572 |
| 23 | Pretoria-Verwoerdburg | | 2,187,172 |
| 24 | Conakry | | 2,064,236 |
| 25 | Tunis-Aryanah-at-Tadaman Dawwar Hisar | | 2,028,662 |
| 26 | Yaoundé | | 1,928,882 |
| 27 | Maputo-Matola | | 1,926,940 |
| 28 | Tripoli | | 1,894,852 |
| 29 | Douala | | 1,834,817 |
| 30 | Bamako | | 1,761,659 |
| 31 | Monrovia | | 1,751,688 |
| 32 | Kampala | | 1,735,918 |
| 33 | Antanarivo | | 1,733,226 |
| 34 | Rabat | | 1,721,760 |
| 35 | Oshogbo-Ede-Inisa | | 1,675,704 |
| 36 | Kaduna | | 1,652,844 |
| 37 | Kumasi | | 1,604,909 |
| 38 | Port Harcourt | | 1,499,603 |
| 39 | Lubumbashi | | 1,485,288 |
| 40 | N'Djaména-Kousséri | / | 1,471,881 |
| 41 | Kisangani | | 1,326,778 |
| 42 | Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage | | 1,319,177 |
| 43 | Mbuji-Mayi | | 1,221,333 |
| 44 | Maiduguri | | 1,197,497 |
| 45 | Benin | | 1,167,327 |
| 46 | Benghazi | | 1,166,063 |
| 47 | Onitsha-Nnewi-Okpoko-Obosi | | 1,156,380 |
| 48 | Ouagadougou | | 1,152,402 |
| 49 | Bouaké | | 1,126,623 |
| 50 | Ogbomosho | | 1,098,912 |
| 51 | Asmara | | 1,091,388 |
| 52 | Zaria | | 1,018,927 |
| 53 | Aba | | 1,012,762 |
| 54 | Fes | | 1,001,798 |
See also
★
World largest cities
Source
★
World Gazeteer