All African Cities Over 500,000

Can you name every city in Africa with over 500,000 inhabitants?

source: citypopulation.de

most are population of city proper, not urban area

urban area populations in red

some figures may be inaccurate due to outdated census numbers

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Last updated: October 16, 2020

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Population	Country	City
9,293,612	Egypt	Cairo
7,860,781	South Africa	Johannesburg
7,273,947	Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Kinshasa
6,759,313	Angola	Luanda
5,195,247	Nigeria	Lagos
5,107,530	Egypt	Alexandria
4,397,073	Kenya	Nairobi
4,395,243	Ivory Coast	Abidjan
4,364,541	Tanzania	Dar es Salaam
4,212,750	Egypt	Giza
3,430,992	South Africa	Cape Town
3,359,818	Morocco	Casablanca
3,273,000	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa
2,786,046	South Africa	Durban
2,646,503	Senegal	Dakar
2,364,230	Algeria	Algiers
2,166,554	Nigeria	Kano
2,070,463	Ghana	Accra
2,035,064	Ghana	Kumasi
1,906,962	Cameroon	Douala
1,849,659	Sudan	Omdurman
1,835,300	Nigeria	Ibadan
1,817,524	Cameroon	Yaoundé
1,810,366	Mali	Bamako
1,763,336	South Africa	Pretoria
1,747,152	Zambia	Lusaka
1,660,973	Guinea	Conakry
1,650,227	Somalia	Mogadishu
1,507,080	Uganda	Kampala
1,485,231	Zimbabwe	Harare
1,477,658	Togo	Lomé
1,475,223	Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou
1,410,858	Sudan	Khartoum
1,373,382	Congo (Rep.)	Brazzaville
1,283,380	Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Lubumbashi
1,275,207	Madagascar	Antananarivo
1,213,726	Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Mbuji-Mayi
1,208,333	Kenya	Mombasa
1,187,747	Egypt	Shubra el-Kheima
1,112,072	Morocco	Fes
1,080,277	Mozambique	Maputo
1,055,964	Sierra Leone	Freetown
1,032,197	Mozambique	Matola
1,021,762	Liberia	Monrovia
1,012,211	Sudan	Khartoum North
993,642	Nigeria	Kaduna
989,318	Malawi	Lilongwe
978,029	Niger	Niamey

Population	Country	City
958,399	Mauritania	Nouakchott
951,418	Chad	N'Djamena
947,952	Morocco	Tangier
928,850	Morocco	Marrakesh
890,403	Morocco	Salé
876,436	South Africa	Port Elizabeth
859,332	Rwanda	Kigali
803,329	Algeria	Oran
800,264	Malawi	Blantyre
762,719	Nigeria	Benin City
760,152	Egypt	Port Said
753,315	Senegal	Touba
741,000	Somalia	Hargeisa
740,874	Egypt	Suez
728,063	South Africa	Shoshanguve
720,362	Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Kananga
715,334	Congo (Rep.)	Pointe-Noire
706,453	Tanzania	Mwanza
703,940	Gabon	Libreville
703,421	Nigeria	Port Harcourt
682,599	Congo (Dem. Rep.)	Kisangani
679,012	Benin	Cotonou
663,212	Mozambique	Nampula
653,337	Zimbabwe	Bulawayo
638,845	Tunisia	Tunis
622,771	Central African Republic	Bangui
618,278	Nigeria	Maiduguri
612,257	Nigeria	Zaria
605,504	South Africa	Evaton
600,751	Angola	Lubango
595,304	Angola	Huambo
592,090	Mozambique	Beira
591,062	Libya	Tripoli
577,827	Morocco	Rabat
570,674	Kenya	Nakuru
570,271	Egypt	El Mansoura
555,124	Angola	Benguela
550,000	Angola	Cabinda
543,271	Egypt	Mahalla el-Kubra
536,719	Ivory Coast	Bouaké
532,089	Nigeria	Ilorin
528,672	Egypt	Tanta
520,428	Morocco	Meknès
510,300	Nigeria	Jos
501,459	Tanzania	Zanzibar
501,360	Zambia	Kitwe
500,183	Nigeria	Aba

Level 77

Oct 16, 2020

Good quiz. My main grouse is that a few of these anwers appear to be suburbs of bigger cities (none of which I guessed). The most obvious example being Khartoum North but one may also cite Shubra el-Kheima which is clearly part of Cairo and not a separate city by any stretch of the imagination.

Level 71

Oct 16, 2020

Thanks! All the cities I included are listed as separate on citypopulation.de, but yes, I did notice that.

Level 90

Oct 17, 2020

That's why it's always better to use urban population.

Level 71

Oct 17, 2020

yeah but the point of this quiz is to be city proper