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

Try to guess the languages in Africa that have at least 1,000,000 native speakers.
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Languages in city with most speakers
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Last updated: October 12, 2020
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Rank
Language
City
Speakers
1
Arabic
Cairo
150,000,000
2
French
Kinshasa
120,000,000
3
Hausa
Lagos
34,000,000
4
Yoruba
Lagos
28,000,000
5
Igbo
Lagos
27,000,000
6
Oromo
Addis Ababa
26,000,000
7
Fula
Conakry
25,000,000
8
Amharic
Addis Ababa
21,800,000
9
Malagasy
Antananarivo
18,000,000
10
Somali
Mogadishu
16,600,000
11
Berber
Fes
16,000,000
12
Swahili
Nairobi
15,000,000
13
Portuguese
Luanda
13,700,000
14
Akan
Accra
11,000,000
15
Zulu
Johannesburg
10,400,000
16
Kinyarwanda
Kigali
9,800,000
17
Chewa
Lusaka
9,700,000
18
Kirundi
Bujumbura
8,800,000
19
Mossi
Ouagadougou
7,600,000
Xhosa
Cape Town
21
Afrikaans
Cape Town
7,200,000
Shona
Harare
Rank
Language
City
Speakers
23
Tigrinya
Asmara
7,000,000
24
Gikuyu
Nyeri
6,600,000
25
English
Johannesburg
6,500,000
26
Luba-Kasai
Kananga
6,300,000
27
Umbundu
Benguela
6,000,000
28
Tswana
Pretoria
5,800,000
29
Kongo
Kinshasa
5,600,000
Sotho
Maseru
31
Lingala
Kinshasa
5,500,000
32
Wolof
Dakar
5,454,000
33
Tsonga
Maputo
5,000,000
34
Northern Sotho
Polokwane
4,600,000
35
Luo
Nairobi
4,200,000
36
Luganda
Kampala
4,100,000
37
Venda
Polokwane
1,300,000
38
Spanish
Malabo
1,100,000
Mauritian Creole
Port Louis
Southern Ndebele
Bulawayo
41
Dangme
Accra
1,020,000
+1
Level 62
Sep 21, 2020
Nice.
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Level 56
Sep 22, 2020
Thanks man
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Level 55
Nov 11, 2020
nice, the dots are humongous though lol
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Level 56
Jan 20, 2021
I think some of the populations you wrote are wrong, or cities you chose. Lagos seems to have more than 80 million people here? Hausa should probably be in Kano and Igbo maybe in port harcourt
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Level 56
Jan 21, 2021
Lagos does not have more than 80 million people. The size of the circle indicates how many people speak that language in Africa, and the city its in indicates the city that has the most speakers of that language in Africa.
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Level 64
Jan 18, 2022
Having Hausa in Lagos is kind of misleading since it's a Sahel language. But I guess you have to put the dots somewhere.
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Level 61
Mar 12, 2024
Can you accept Sotho for Northern Sotho?