There are a total of 54 Independent countries in Africa and one transcontinental country, Egypt, which has a small territory in Asia, on the other side of the Suez Canal. Politically Egypt is a member of the African Union.
Africa is surrounded by water, The Mediterranean Sea separates Europe from Africa and the Suez Canal separates Africa from Asia, Southeast of Africa is surrounded by the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean from the West.
The largest country in Africa is Algeria, which occupies only 7% of the continent’s total area, and the smallest nation is Seychelles.
List of countries in Africa (Alphabetical Order)
A | B | C |
Algeria Angola | Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi | Cabo Verde Cameroon Central African Republic (CAR) Chad Comoros The Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Cote d’Ivoire |
D | E | G |
Djibouti | Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia | Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau |
K | L | M |
Kenya | Lesotho Liberia Libya | Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique |
N | R | S |
Namibia Niger Nigeria | Rwanda | Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland |
T | U | Z |
Tanzania Togo Tunisia | Uganda | Zambia Zimbabwe |
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