World Capitals — Africa flashcards
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All 54 African UN member states, one capital per card with a memorable hook and the largest-city traps (Lagos, Casablanca, Abidjan, Dar es Salaam) called out, grouped by sub-region.
Learn deck · part of World capitals and US states · written against: 193 UN member states plus four observers/others; capitals as of 2026. Updated 2026-10-10.
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What is the capital of Algeria?AlgiersNorth Africa
Alger in French; its old walled medina, the Kasbah, climbs a steep hillside above the sea and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. -
What is the capital of Egypt?CairoNorth Africa
Al-Qahirah, "the victorious", in Arabic; the Giza pyramids stand on the edge of its metropolitan area. -
What is the capital of Benin?Porto-NovoWest Africa
Watch out: Porto-Novo is the official capital, but Cotonou, the main port, is the seat of government. -
What is the capital of Burkina Faso?OuagadougouWest Africa
Pronounced roughly "wah-gah-DOO-goo"; it was the Mossi capital for centuries before the French took it in 1896. -
What is the capital of Angola?LuandaCentral Africa
Founded by the Portuguese in 1576; for centuries its port shipped enslaved Africans across the Atlantic, chiefly to Brazil. -
What is the capital of Cameroon?YaoundéCentral Africa
Watch out: not Douala, the main port and economic capital; Yaoundé lies inland, spread over hills. -
What is the capital of Burundi?GitegaEast Africa
Watch out: Gitega replaced Bujumbura as the political capital in 2019; Bujumbura, on Lake Tanganyika, stays the economic capital. -
What is the capital of Djibouti?Djibouti (City)East Africa
Country and capital share a name; it sits on the Gulf of Tadjoura near the southern entrance to the Red Sea. -
What is the capital of Botswana?GaboroneSouthern Africa
Purpose-built as the capital just before independence in 1966; the G sounds like an H, roughly "ha-bo-ROH-neh". -
What is the capital of the Comoros?MoroniIndian Ocean Islands
On Grande Comore (Ngazidja), at the foot of the active volcano Mount Karthala.
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- Countries checked against the United Nations member-state list (un.org); capitals against the US Department of State's "Independent States in the World" (August 2026, public domain), national constitutions (Constitute Project) and, for Equatorial Guinea's 2026 decree, the World Bank's country overview; city sizes against UN DESA World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO) and Statistics South Africa's Census 2022; hooks against the UNESCO World Heritage List (CC BY-SA 4.0), national and city government pages, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the Seychelles News Agency, the Library of Congress country studies, State Department background notes and its Office of the Historian, the UK PCGN toponymic factfiles, World Bank, African Development Bank, UN-Habitat and NASA Earth Observatory publications, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oregon State University's Volcano World and the Bulletin of Volcanology, the Miller Center (University of Virginia), the Dakar Rally organiser's history page, Reindorf's History of the Gold Coast and Asante (1895), edited reference works (World Encyclopedia, the Worldmark and Junior Worldmark encyclopedias, Columbia Encyclopedia, Gale Encyclopedia of Science, Countries and Their Cultures, Cities of the World, Countries of the World and Their Leaders Yearbook, World Education Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Africa, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Place Names, A Dictionary of World History, Dictionary Plus Social Sciences) and the Merriam-Webster, Larousse and Priberam dictionaries. All wording original.
- World History Encyclopedia (worldhistory.org), consulted, not copied.
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