List of cities in Africa by population

List of cities in Africa by population

Cairo, Egypt is the largest metropolis in Africa, the Middle East and the Arab world.

Lagos, Nigeria is one of the primary economic and logistical turntables in West Africa.

Oceanside of Luanda, the Angolan metropolis and a major commercial hub for Africa's fossil fuel industries.

East Africa's central place of business and Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

Great Mosque in the city of Kano, the historical centre and trans-Saharan trade focus in Northern Nigeria.

Cape Peninsula of Cape Town, Africa's southernmost city and the second largest one in South Africa, also its legislative capital.

Addis Ababa is the core of Ethiopia and seat of the African Union.

Aerial view of the pyramid complex and the city of Giza, Egypt, forming part of the Cairo agglomeration.

View of Algiers: Algeria's metropolis is one of the most important economic and traditional centres in the Maghreb and North Africa.

Kampala is the capital and hub of Uganda.

The ancient royal Rovan'i Manjakamiadana overlooking Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo.

Aerial view of Harare, the centre of Zimbabwe.

Kilindini Harbour in Mombasa, Kenya's historical, second largest city, is its gate to the Indian Ocean trade.

The Jemaa el-Fnaa marketplace in the Moroccan Imperial city of Marrakesh is an old key to the trans-Saharan trade.

The following is a list of the 100 largest cities in Africa by urban population using the most recent official estimate. This reflects only cities located geographically in Africa including related islands.

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List of cities in Africa by population

<table><thead><tr><th>Rank</th><th>City</th><th>Country</th><th>Population</th><th>Year of estimate</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>Cairo</td><td>Egypt</td><td>23,200,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Lagos</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>21,900,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>Kinshasa</td><td>Democratic Republic of the Congo</td><td>16,900,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Johannesburg</td><td>South Africa</td><td>15,100,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>Luanda</td><td>Angola</td><td>10,400,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Khartoum</td><td>Sudan</td><td>7,400,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>Abidjan</td><td>Ivory Coast</td><td>7,300,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>Nairobi</td><td>Kenya</td><td>7,150,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>Accra</td><td>Ghana</td><td>7,050,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>Dar es Salaam</td><td>Tanzania</td><td>6,900,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>Alexandria</td><td>Egypt</td><td>6,350,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>Bamako</td><td>Mali</td><td>5,950,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>13</td><td>Kano</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>5,550,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>14</td><td>Kampala</td><td>Uganda</td><td>5,350,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>15</td><td>Cape Town</td><td>South Africa</td><td>5,200,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>16</td><td>Addis Ababa</td><td>Ethiopia</td><td>4,950,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>17</td><td>Casablanca</td><td>Morocco</td><td>4,500,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>18</td><td>Giza</td><td>Egypt</td><td>4,458,135</td><td>2023</td></tr><tr><td>19</td><td>Algiers</td><td>Algeria</td><td>4,400,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>20</td><td>Dakar</td><td>Senegal</td><td>4,375,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>21</td><td>Ekurhuleni</td><td>South Africa</td><td>4,066,691</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>22</td><td>Pretoria</td><td>South Africa</td><td>4,040,315</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>23</td><td>Conakry</td><td>Guinea</td><td>4,000,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>24</td><td>Durban</td><td>South Africa</td><td>3,975,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>25</td><td>Douala</td><td>Cameroon</td><td>3,950,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>26</td><td>Yaoundé</td><td>Cameroon</td><td>3,900,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>27</td><td>Ouagadougou</td><td>Burkina Faso</td><td>3,550,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>28</td><td>Ibadan</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>3,475,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>29</td><td>Antananarivo</td><td>Madagascar</td><td>3,250,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>30</td><td>Abuja</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>3,175,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>31</td><td>Lusaka</td><td>Zambia</td><td>3,100,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>32</td><td>Lubumbashi</td><td>Democratic Republic of the Congo</td><td>2,975,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>33</td><td>Kumasi</td><td>Ghana</td><td>2,950,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>34</td><td>Omdurman</td><td>Sudan</td><td>2,805,396</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>35</td><td>Tunis</td><td>Tunisia</td><td>2,775,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>36</td><td>Lomé</td><td>Togo</td><td>2,725,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>37</td><td>Harare</td><td>Zimbabwe</td><td>2,700,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>38</td><td>Maputo</td><td>Mozambique</td><td>2,650,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>39</td><td>Mbuji-Mayi</td><td>Democratic Republic of the Congo</td><td>2,600,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>40</td><td>Brazzaville</td><td>Republic of the Congo</td><td>2,550,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>41</td><td>Mogadishu</td><td>Somalia</td><td>2,325,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>42</td><td>Port Harcourt</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>2,300,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>43</td><td>Cotonou</td><td>Benin</td><td>2,225,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>44</td><td>Rabat</td><td>Morocco</td><td>2,150,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>45</td><td>Kigali</td><td>Rwanda</td><td>2,050,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>46</td><td>Kaduna</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>2,025,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>47</td><td>N'Djamena</td><td>Chad</td><td>2,025,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>48</td><td>Monrovia</td><td>Liberia</td><td>2,000,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>49</td><td>Tripoli</td><td>Libya</td><td>1,930,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>50</td><td>Benin City</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>1,840,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>51</td><td>Matola</td><td>Mozambique</td><td>1,796,872</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>52</td><td>Bangui</td><td>Central African Republic</td><td>1,740,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>53</td><td>Oran</td><td>Algeria</td><td>1,670,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>54</td><td>Niamey</td><td>Niger</td><td>1,580,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>55</td><td>Nouakchott</td><td>Mauritania</td><td>1,550,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>56</td><td>Pointe-Noire</td><td>Republic of the Congo</td><td>1,530,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>57</td><td>Freetown</td><td>Sierra Leone</td><td>1,460,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>58</td><td>Tangier</td><td>Morocco</td><td>1,460,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>59</td><td>Kananga</td><td>Democratic Republic of the Congo</td><td>1,420,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>60</td><td>Mombasa</td><td>Kenya</td><td>1,400,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>61</td><td>Mwanza</td><td>Tanzania</td><td>1,390,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>62</td><td>Benguela</td><td>Angola</td><td>1,370,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>63</td><td>Touba</td><td>Senegal</td><td>1,370,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>64</td><td>Kisangani</td><td>Democratic Republic of the Congo</td><td>1,340,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>65</td><td>Fez</td><td>Morocco</td><td>1,330,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>66</td><td>Bujumbura</td><td>Burundi</td><td>1,320,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>67</td><td>Aba</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>1,310,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>68</td><td>Agadir</td><td>Morocco</td><td>1,300,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>69</td><td>Shubra el-Kheima</td><td>Egypt</td><td>1,275,700</td><td>2023</td></tr><tr><td>70</td><td>Onitsha</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>1,250,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>71</td><td>Lilongwe</td><td>Malawi</td><td>1,250,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>72</td><td>Arusha</td><td>Tanzania</td><td>1,230,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>73</td><td>Maiduguri</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>1,220,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>74</td><td>Banjul</td><td>Gambia</td><td>1,210,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>75</td><td>Gqeberha</td><td>South Africa</td><td>1,200,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>76</td><td>Sousse</td><td>Tunisia</td><td>1,200,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>77</td><td>Ilorin</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>1,190,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>78</td><td>Abomey-Calavi</td><td>Benin</td><td>1,188,736</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>79</td><td>Sokoto</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>1,180,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>80</td><td>Nnewi</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>1,176,550</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>81</td><td>Marrakesh</td><td>Morocco</td><td>1,150,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>82</td><td>Jos</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>1,140,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>83</td><td>Bukavu</td><td>Democratic Republic of the Congo</td><td>1,140,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>84</td><td>Bobo Dioulasso</td><td>Burkina Faso</td><td>1,130,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>85</td><td>Asmara</td><td>Eritrea</td><td>1,120,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>86</td><td>Zaria</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>1,080,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>87</td><td>Zanzibar</td><td>Tanzania</td><td>1,080,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>88</td><td>Hargeisa</td><td>Somalia ( Somaliland)</td><td>1,079,377</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>89</td><td>Goma</td><td>Democratic Republic of the Congo</td><td>1,050,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>90</td><td>Enugu</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>1,040,000</td><td>2026</td></tr><tr><td>91</td><td>Tshikapa</td><td>Democratic Republic of the Congo</td><td>1,023,575</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>92</td><td>Nyala</td><td>Sudan</td><td>1,012,312</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>93</td><td>Blantyre</td><td>Malawi</td><td>994,911</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>94</td><td>Misratah</td><td>Libya</td><td>953,472</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>95</td><td>Nampula</td><td>Mozambique</td><td>927,472</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>96</td><td>Warri</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>910,000</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>97</td><td>Port Said</td><td>Egypt</td><td>790,000</td><td>2024</td></tr><tr><td>98</td><td>Ikorodu</td><td>Nigeria</td><td>781,500</td><td>2022</td></tr><tr><td>99</td><td>Suez</td><td>Egypt</td><td>690,000</td><td>2024</td></tr><tr><td>100</td><td>Mansoura, Egypt</td><td>Egypt</td><td>600,000</td><td>2024</td></tr></tbody></table>