Region: North Africa

Capital: Algiers

Currency: Algerian Dinar

Population: 44.3 million

Official Language: Arabic

Fun Fact: Algeria is the biggest African Country

Region: West Africa

Capital: Ouagadougou

Currency: West African CFA franc

Population: 20.8  million

Official Language: French

Fun Fact: Burkina Faso has rich deposits of gold, zinc, copper and manganese

Region: Central  Africa

Capital: Bangui

Currency:Centra African CFA franc

Population: 4.8 million

Official Language: Sangho, French

Fun Fact: The Central African Republic is rich in natural resources including diamond, timber.

Region: Central  Africa

Capital: Brazaville

Currency:Congolese franc

Population: 5 million

Official Language: French

Fun Fact: Parc National Nouabalé-Ndoki is named the  ‘Last Eden’ as it's the last natural habitat on earth where you can find rich flora and fauna that remains undisturbed by global changes.

Region: Central  Africa

Capital: Malabo

Currency:Central African CFA franc

Population: 1.3 million

Official Language:Spanish, French, Portuguese 

Fun Fact: President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, of Equatorial Guinea is the World's longest serving president. 

Region: Central  Africa

Capital: Libreville

Currency: Central African CFA franc

Population: 2.17  million

Official Language: French

Fun Fact: Gabon is famous for the Oklo reactor zones, which are the only known natural nuclear fission reactor on Earth.

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Bissau

Currency: Central African CFA franc

Population: 1.92 million

Official Language: Portuguese

Fun Fact: Guinea-Bissau has a history of political instability since independence, and only one elected president (José Mário Vaz) has successfully served a full five-year term.

Region: North  Africa

Capital: Tripoli

Currency: Libyan Dinar

Population: 6.8 million

Official Language: Arabic

Fun Fact: The Libyan Desert is known for being the harshest, driest, and most remote region of the Sahara. It is know for going without rain for decades.

Region: Northwest  Africa

Capital: Nouakchott

Currency: Mauritanian Ouguiya

Population: 4.6 million

Official Language: Arabic

Fun Fact: There is a huge eye in the Mauritanian desert which is visible from space.

Region: Southern  Africa

Capital: Windhoek

Currency: Namibian dollar, South African rand

Population: 2.5 million

Official Language: English

Fun Fact: Namibia is home to the world’s oldest desert 

Region: Central  Africa

Capital: São Tomé

Currency: São Tomé and Príncipe dobra

Population: 0.219 million

Official Language: Portuguese

Fun Fact: Sao Tome and Principe is a bird watching paradise. You will find the world’s smallest ibis and the largest sunbird here. 

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Mogadishu

Currency: Somali Shilling

Population: 15.9  million

Official Language: Somali, Arabic

Fun Fact: Somalia has the longest coastline in mainland Africa 

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Dodoma

Currency: Tanzanian Shilling

Population: 59.7  million

Official Language: Swahili, English

Fun Fact: Tanzania houses the tallest mountain in Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro

Region: Southern  Africa

Capital: Lusaka

Currency: Zambian kwacha

Population: 18.38 million

Official Language: English

Fun Fact: Zambia's Victoria falls is almost double the heights of Canada's Niagara Falls.

Region: Southern Africa

Capital: Luanda

Currency: Angolan Quanza

Population: 32.8 million

Official Language: Portuguese

Fun Fact: Luanda is dubbed' Paris of Africa' due to its diverse culture

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Gitega

Currency: Burundian franc

Population: 11.8  million

Official Language: Kirundi, French

Fun Fact: Burundi won a gold medal in the 1996 Olympic Games

Region: North  Africa

Capital: N'Djamena

Currency:Centra African CFA franc

Population: 16 million

Official Language: French, Arabic

Fun Fact: The Tibou tribe of Chad are known as the world's best camel racers.

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Yamoussoukro

Currency: West African CFA franc

Population: 26 million

Official Language: French

Fun Fact: The Ivory Coast is the world's largest exporter of cocoa

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Asmara

Currency:Eritrean nakfa

Population: 3.2  million

Official Language: None; Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar, Beja are widely spoken.

Fun Fact: Eritrea has never held a presidential or national election since gaining independence. 

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Banjul

Currency:Gambian Dalasi

Population: 2.4 million

Official Language: English

Fun Fact: Gambia is African's smallest non-island country 

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Bissau

Currency: Central African CFA franc

Population: 1.92 million

Official Language: Portuguese

Fun Fact: Guinea-Bissau has a history of political instability since independence, and only one elected president (José Mário Vaz) has successfully served a full five-year term.

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Antananarivo

Currency: Malagasy Ariar

Population: 27.6 million

Official Language: Malagasy, French

Fun Fact:More than 50% of the world’s chameleon population is found in Madagascar.

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Port Louis

Currency: Mauritian Rupee

Population: 1.2 million

Official Language: No formal official language (English, French Creole)

Fun Fact: Mauritius has the highest population density in Africa.

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Niamey

Currency: West African CFA franc

Population: 24.2 million

Official Language: French

Fun Fact: Niger is known as the “Frying Pan of the World, as it is considered one of the hottest nations. 

Region: West  Africa

Capital: DARKAR

Currency: West African CFA franc

Population: 16.74 million

Official Language: French

Fun Fact: The most western point of continental Africa is the capital of Senegal. 

Region: Southern  Africa

Capital: Cape Town, Pretoria, Bloemfontein 

Currency:South African rand

Population: 59.3 million

Official Language: Afrikaans, English, Xhosa, Zulu, Southern Sotho, Northern Sotho, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Swati, Ndebele

Fun Fact: The first heart transplant in the world took place in 1967. It was performed by Dr Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. 

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Lomé

Currency: West African CFA franc

Population: 8.279 million

Official Language: French, English

Fun Fact:Traditional Togolese houses are beautifully constructed by hand from mud, with thatched roofs. They come in all shapes and sizes and can look like miniature castles

Region: Southern  Africa

Capital: Harare

Currency:  Zimbabwe Dollar, United States Dollar

Population: 14.86 million

Official Language: Chewa, Chibarwe, English, Kalanga, Koi-san, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, Sign Language, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa.

Fun Fact: Zimbabwe’s lake Kariba is the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the world by volume. 

Region: West Africa

Capital: Porto-Novo

Currency: West African CFA franc

Population: 12.3  million

Official Language: French

Fun Fact: Benin is home to the Venice of Africa;  villages floating in a lake

Region: West Africa

Capital: Praia

Currency: Cape Verdean Escudo

Population: 0.54  million

Official Language: Portuguese

Fun Fact: The Cape Verde Archipelago is made up of ten islands and 5 islets

Region: Eastern coast of Africa

Capital: Moroni

Currency: Comorian franc

Population: 869 Thousand

Official Language: Comorian, Arabic, French,

Fun Fact: Most of the Comoros islands are volcanic

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Djibouti City

Currency:Djiboutian franc

Population: 997 thousand

Official Language: French, Arabic

Fun Fact: Approximately 90% of Djibouti’s land is a desert.

Region: Southern  Africa

Capital: Mbabane, Lobamba

Currency:South African rand, Swazi Lilangeni

Population: 1.16  million

Official Language: Swati, English

Fun Fact: Eswatini is Africa's last absolute monarchy whose King Sobhuza II (1899-1982) was the longest reigning monarch in the world (82 years and 253 days)

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Accra

Currency: Ghanaian  Cedi

Population: 30.4 million

Official Language: English

Fun Fact: First country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from its colonisers (March, 1957)

Region: Southern  Africa

Capital: Maseru

Currency: Lesotho loti & South African rand

Population: 2.1  million

Official Language: Southern Sotho,  English

Fun Fact: Lesotho has the "Highest lowest point" of any country. As the world's only nation to be completely above an elevation of 1,000 m it is often called the Kingdom of the Sky"

Region: Southeastern  Africa

Capital: Lilongwe

Currency: Malawian kwacha

Population: 19.1 million

Official Language: English

Fun Fact: Lake Malawi contains the largest number of fish species of any lake in the world.

Region: North  Africa

Capital: Rabat

Currency:  Moroccan dirham

Population: 36.9 million

Official Language: Arabic, Standard Moroccan Berber

Fun Fact: The oldest existing, and continually operating educational institution in the world is the University of Karueein, founded in 859 AD in Fez, Morocco.

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Abuja

Currency: Nigerian Naira

Population: 206.1  million

Official Language: English

Fun Fact: Nigeria has the highest GDP in Africa, standing at $ 514.05 billion in 2021 

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Victoria

Currency: Seychellois rupee

Population: 98.46 thousand

Official Language: French, English, Seychelles Creole

Fun Fact: Seychelles is over 99% water 

Region: North  Africa

Capital: Juba

Currency: South Sudanese pound

Population: 11.19 million

Official Language: English

Fun Fact: South Sudan is the world's youngest nation founded in 2011. 

Region: North  Africa

Capital: Tunis

Currency: Tunisian dinar

Population: 11.82 million

Official Language: Arabic

Fun Fact: Tunisia Is A Women's Rights Champion In The Maghreb Region 

Region: Southern Africa

Capital: Gaborone

Currency: Botswana Pula

Population: 2.3  million

Official Language: English

Fun Fact: Botswana has the  world's largest concentration of African elephants

Region: Central  Africa

Capital: Yaounde

Currency:Centra African CFA franc

Population: 26 million

Official Language: French, English

Fun Fact: Cameroon is one of the world's largest producer of coffee

Region: Central  Africa

Capital: Kinshasha

Currency:Congolese franc

Population: 91 million

Official Language: French

Fun Fact: The DRC has the largest hydropower potential in Africa (accounts for over half) and one of the largest worldwide.

Region: North  Africa

Capital: Cairo

Currency:Egyptian Pound

Population: 103 million

Official Language: Mordern Standard Arabic

Fun Fact:The 365-day calendar that is divided into 12 months was invented in Egypt.

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Addis Ababa

Currency: Ethiopian Birr

Population: 112.1 million

Official Language: Amharic

Fun Fact: Ethiopia is one of the only two African countries which were not colonized by Europeans.

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Conakry

Currency:Guinean Frac

Population: 12.7 million

Official Language: French

Fun Fact: Guinea is the world's second-largest bauxite producing nation.

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Monrovia

Currency: Liberian Dollar

Population: 5 million

Official Language: English

Fun Fact: Liberia is the first country in Africa which had a female president. Known as Africa’s Iron Lady, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took office as Liberia’s 24th president in 2006. 

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Bamako

Currency: West African CFA franc

Population: 20.2 million

Official Language: French

Fun Fact: Mali is the biggest country in West Africa, and home to the largest mud brick building in the world:  Great Mosque of Djenne.

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Maputo

Currency: Mozambican Metical

Population: 31.2 million

Official Language: Portuguese

Fun Fact: Mozambique is also known for being the largest marine reserve in Africa. 

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Kigali

Currency: Rwandan Franc

Population: 12.95 million

Official Language: Kinyarwanda, French, English

Fun Fact: Rwanda is known for being the cleanest country in Africa. 

Region: West  Africa

Capital: Freetown

Currency: Sierra Leonean leone

Population: 7.9 million

Official Language: English

Fun Fact: Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown, was founded as a home for repatriated and rescued former slaves in 1787 

Region: North  Africa

Capital: Khartoum

Currency: Sudanese pound

Population: 43.85 million

Official Language: Arabic, English

Fun Fact: Sudan is home to more pyramids than Egypt.

Region: East  Africa

Capital: Kampala

Currency: Ugandan shilling

Population: 45.74 million

Official Language: Swahili English

Fun Fact: Uganda has the world's youngest population with over 77 percent of its population below the age of 30.