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15 Largest Cities in Africa With a Map

Using the map, name the 15 most populous urban areas in Africa.
Urban area population, not city proper
According to citypopulation.de, January 2022
Quiz by Quizzer6794
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Last updated: March 3, 2022
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First submittedAugust 17, 2016
Times taken61,798
Average score73.3%
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Population
City
21.9 mil
Cairo
20.7 mil
Lagos
14.5 mil
Johannesburg
14.5 mil
Kinshasa
8.70 mil
Luanda
6.75 mil
Dar es Salaam
6.65 mil
Khartoum
6.30 mil
Nairobi
6.15 mil
Accra
6.05 mil
Alexandria
5.95 mil
Abidjan
5.00 mil
Kano
4.63 mil
Casablanca
4.38 mil
Cape Town
4.10 mil
Algiers
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Level 77
Aug 17, 2016
Finally acing the 200 biggest cities of the world quiz certainly helps with all the others. 15/15 .. the world one would be cool with a map, although it'd be a massive undertaking to make.
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Level 60
Jul 23, 2020
Try the one with every city that has a million or more. There's over 500 cities.
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Level 31
Dec 15, 2020
sometimes I am stupid. I got 13 and missed Kano and wait for it... Algiers. I know.
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Level 60
Sep 24, 2021
They did better. 500 with a map:

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1260664/500-largest-cities-in-the-world-on-a-map

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Level 84
Oct 2, 2016
Got bailed out on Dar es Salaam. Knew it was Dar-something. Apparently that was good enough. :-)
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Level 75
Dec 4, 2016
It's an appropriately-allowed abbreviation. People there virtually always call it "Dar".
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Level 57
Dec 4, 2016
What about 16-30 quizzes? Then 31-50.
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Level 65
Dec 4, 2016
I don't think of it concise as I do this top 15 one. If I were to make anything of that it would be 30 largest, 45 largest, e.g. :)
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Level 63
Dec 4, 2016
Got all of them with 2:29 remaining.
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Level 67
Dec 19, 2016
Fun.
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Level 55
Oct 25, 2017
No Adis Ababa, wow
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Level 67
Feb 24, 2018
I'm gonna be honest; I did way worse on this one compared to all of the other continents, which reminds me to touch up on my African, SE Asian, and Pakistani geography.
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Level 67
Jul 8, 2020
pakistan? im from there but its not african
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Level 43
Mar 6, 2022
I don't think he stated that Pakistan is an African country.
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Level 27
Apr 26, 2019
Good, good, easy so far. Doing them in order--- wait- that other nigerian city ISNT Abuja!?!? welp there goes my streak. ;(
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Level 58
Sep 17, 2022
Yep, me too, I also didn’t get casablanca because the only Moroccan cities that came to mind were Rabat and Fez
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Level 80
May 10, 2019
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Level 41
May 13, 2019
I think you may have used the pop. of the state of Khartoum, the city itself have ~1.97 mil
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Level 78
Aug 28, 2020
They use urban area
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Level 55
Aug 21, 2022
It uses urban area, which is over 5 million. Khartoum State has a population of over 7 million.
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Level 68
May 15, 2019
Would have been 100% but Kano!!!
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Level 81
Mar 6, 2022
I got every city right if you don't count the ones I missed.
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Level 47
Aug 20, 2019
What about addis ababa, is it something to do with metro population or something?
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Level 65
Aug 20, 2019
Yeah, we use urban areas from CityPopulation. Addis Ababa just misses the cut at 3.75 million.
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Level 40
Oct 27, 2019
i thought addis ababa and mogadishu would be here
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Level 46
Sep 18, 2020
I only missed Cape Town because I didn't scroll down!
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Level 15
May 10, 2022
Why
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Level 40
Aug 10, 2022
Accept Joburg.
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Level 60
Feb 12, 2023
15/15 in only 35 seconds.
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Level 39
May 30, 2023
I misremembered Kano as Kaon,FML💀
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Level 56
Jul 22, 2023
Can you please accept Dar el Beida as an answer for Casablanca?
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Level 28
Mar 3, 2024
Can you please accept Joburg? It's a well known abbreviation
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Level 50
Mar 5, 2024
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