Statistics for Most Widely-Spoken Languages In Africa (With A Map)

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Answers color-coded by a green-red scale on the quiz's map according to % correct below.

Rank	Language	City	Speakers	% Correct
1	Arabic	Cairo	150,000,000	99%
2	French	Kinshasa	120,000,000	92%
25	English	Johannesburg	6,500,000	89%
10	Somali	Mogadishu	16,600,000	88%
21	Afrikaans	Cape Town	7,200,000	87%
12	Swahili	Nairobi	15,000,000	87%
8	Amharic	Addis Ababa	21,800,000	83%
15	Zulu	Johannesburg	10,400,000	83%
11	Berber	Fes	16,000,000	82%
13	Portuguese	Luanda	13,700,000	80%
9	Malagasy	Antananarivo	18,000,000	76%
5	Igbo	Lagos	27,000,000	75%
19	Xhosa	Cape Town	7,600,000	74%
4	Yoruba	Lagos	28,000,000	72%
29	Sotho	Maseru	5,600,000	68%
38	Spanish	Malabo	1,100,000	68%
3	Hausa	Lagos	34,000,000	66%
16	Kinyarwanda	Kigali	9,800,000	64%
18	Kirundi	Bujumbura	8,800,000	61%
6	Oromo	Addis Ababa	26,000,000	57%
28	Tswana	Pretoria	5,800,000	53%
23	Tigrinya	Asmara	7,000,000	50%
32	Wolof	Dakar	5,454,000	44%
7	Fula	Conakry	25,000,000	43%
38	Mauritian Creole	Port Louis	1,100,000	43%
38	Southern Ndebele	Bulawayo	1,100,000	43%
21	Shona	Harare	7,200,000	41%
29	Kongo	Kinshasa	5,600,000	37%
34	Northern Sotho	Polokwane	4,600,000	34%
31	Lingala	Kinshasa	5,500,000	29%
37	Venda	Polokwane	1,300,000	29%
17	Chewa	Lusaka	9,700,000	28%
33	Tsonga	Maputo	5,000,000	28%
14	Akan	Accra	11,000,000	27%
36	Luganda	Kampala	4,100,000	23%
19	Mossi	Ouagadougou	7,600,000	19%
24	Gikuyu	Nyeri	6,600,000	15%
35	Luo	Nairobi	4,200,000	15%
26	Luba-Kasai	Kananga	6,300,000	11%
27	Umbundu	Benguela	6,000,000	10%
41	Dangme	Accra	1,020,000	3%