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What are the Capitals of Africa?

A capital city is the seat of a country's government. Africa has 54 countries, and this quiz covers the capitals of 48 of them.

  • Some capitals are ancient cities, such as Cairo and Addis Ababa.
  • Many grew from colonial ports or administrative centers, such as Dakar, Nairobi and Kinshasa.
  • After independence, several countries built or chose new capitals. Botswana built Gaborone in the 1960s.
  • Tanzania designated Dodoma in 1973, and Côte d'Ivoire chose Yamoussoukro in 1983.
  • Nigeria moved its capital from Lagos to the purpose-built city of Abuja in 1991.
  • South Africa has three capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein.

Current quiz contains 48 capitals . You will be randomly asked 30 of them: Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Antananarivo, Asmara, Bamako, Bangui, Banjul, Bissau, Brazzaville, Bujumbura, Cairo, Conakry, Dakar, Djibouti (city), Dodoma, Freetown, Gaborone, Harare, Juba, Kampala, Khartoum, Kigali, Kinshasa, Libreville, Lilongwe, Lomé, Luanda, Lusaka, Malabo, Maputo, Maseru, Mbabane, Mogadishu, Monrovia, N'Djamena, Nairobi, Niamey, Nouakchott, Ouagadougou, Porto-Novo, Pretoria, Rabat, Tripoli, Tunis, Windhoek, Yamoussoukro, Yaounde.