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