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Top 10 Cities by African Subregion on the Map

Africa is a quickly growing continent of a billion people. Within this vast land, there is a great amount of diversity, from the Cape of Good Hope to the top of Tunisia. The United Nations defines five different African subregions in it's geoscheme for Africa, can you name the 10 most populous cities in each defined area?
All figures are by city proper
Some of these cities' population figures are undersold dramatically due to poor census data
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Last updated: December 29, 2020
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Central
7.27 m
Kinshasa
2.76 m
Douala
2.76 m
Yaoundé
2.58 m
Luanda
1.37 m
Brazzaville
1.28 m
Lubumbashi
1.21 m
Mbuji-Mayi
951 k
N'Djamena
720 k
Kananga
715 k
Pointe-Noire
 
 
East
4.39 m
Nairobi
4.36 m
Dar es Salaam
3.27 m
Addis Ababa
2.62 m
Lusaka
1.68 m
Kampala
1.65 m
Mogadishu
1.48 m
Harare
1.27 m
Antananarivo
1.20 m
Mombasa
1.08 m
Maputo
North
9.29 m
Cairo
5.10 m
Alexandria
4.21 m
Giza
3.56 m
Casablanca
2.36 m
Algiers
1.84 k
Omdurman
1.41 m
Khartoum
1.18 m
Shubra el-Kheima
1.18 m
Fes
1.08 m
Tangier
 
 
South
5.63 m
Johannesburg
3.74 m
Cape Town
3.72 m
Durban
2.47 m
Pretoria
967 k
Port Elizabeth
556 k
Bloemfontein
549 k
Rustenburg
363 k
Newcastle
330 k
Maseru
325 k
Windhoek
West
5.19 m
Lagos
4.39 m
Abidjan
2.64 m
Dakar
2.48 m
Ouagadougou
2.16 m
Kano
2.17 m
Lomé
2.07 m
Accra
2.03 m
Kumasi
1.83 m
Ibadan
1.81 m
Bamako
 
 
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Level 57
Dec 28, 2020
fantastic once again!
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Level 70
Dec 28, 2020
Glad you enjoyed, thank you :)
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Level 70
Dec 28, 2020
I would like to conclude this series with the Americas, although I have no idea how I'm going to divide the continent yet (besides more obvious divisions--Caribbean, Northern America, etc.) Oceania is not in the plans, due to how quickly the cities become obscure, if you can even call them cities.
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Level 57
Dec 28, 2020
You could mix Oceania with North America or Oceania with Southeast Asia.

You could also mix South America with Latin America and/or the Caribbean.

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Level 70
Dec 28, 2020
My biggest problem is simply the regions of Oceania--Australia and Polynesia as regions have good amounts of cities, while Melanesia and Micronesia are quite obscure. Mixing it with Asia might have been the best option, although personally I'm fine with giving Oceania a miss. Thank you for your suggestions!
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Level 55
Dec 28, 2020
39/50. Great Quiz. Maybe divide America into North, Central, and carribean
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Level 70
Dec 28, 2020
Thanks for the suggestions! I think that for North America, Northern America (US, Canada, Greenland), Caribbean, Central America are guaranteed. South America is hard to divide, though. The Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) is an easy choice but I'm not sure about the rest of South America. Any divisions I make will be much less formal than the last 3 quizzes.
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Level 56
Dec 29, 2020
Amazing Quiz! Got 40 this time (IDK why I always get number correct answers as multiple of 10 in this series :\)
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Level 70
Dec 29, 2020
Thank you once more! And I guess we will see if you score another multiple of ten on the last entry in the series coming up :)
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Level 90
Dec 29, 2020
Good series but I have a real problem with "city proper" populations.
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Level 70
Dec 29, 2020
In some cases I will agree with you. The three main problems I have with city proper are when cities are completely downsized (such as Brussels or Athens), due to suburbs that physically border said city, when population is underestimated due to out of date census data (huge problem in some of the African countries), and finally Chongqing, China, the so-called biggest city in the world (when the 'city' is essentially just another Chinese province in every way besides administration).
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Level 70
Dec 29, 2020
However, I have a much larger problem with the metropolitan figures presented by citypopulation.de (the site calls them 'urban areas'). For example, their claim that Boston has 7 million people, and includes about half of New England is something I find a stretch. I also disagree with their grouping of cities along international borders (Detroit-Windsor, or Singapore-Johor Bahru). Finally, due to how prevelant these figures are on Jetpunk, cities such as Wuppertal get completely ignored while more obscure built up areas like the Ruhr or Cixi are given the spotlight. As someone who has learnt a great deal of my geographical knowledge on Jetpunk, I know some of the major cities ony for other reasons (Dortmund for football, Bonn for history, etc).
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Level 70
Dec 29, 2020
I prefer urban areas, personally, in which only the population within a given urbanised area is counted (no cities agglomerated when they are actually seperated over fields, for instance). It's not perfect, and it's hard to count for at times, but urban area is my go to. Sorry for the essay, but also thanks for playing the series :)
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Level 73
Dec 29, 2020
"from the Cape of Good Horn" There is no such place. It's Cape Horn.
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Level 55
Dec 29, 2020
Its the Cape of Good Hope
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Level 70
Dec 29, 2020
Apologies, it seems I've confused the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa with its South American cousin (Cape Horn). I feel I should mention that the Cape of Good Hope itself is not physically the southernmost point on the continent, either, but symbolically it has marked the end of the African landmass perhaps since its rounding by the Portuguese.