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In SSC, Banking, LIC, Railways, and other competitive exams, the General Awareness section plays an important role nowadays since it is a very scoring section. In this article, we will cover one of the topics of this section i.e “Countries and their Capitals”. This is a very easy topic and if students read it comprehensively they with do well in this section.

Africa: An Introduction

  • Africa is the hottest continent in the world and the second driest continent in the world.
     
  • Africa is the second largest continent on Earth, accounting for approximately 22% of the Earth’s total land area and 6% of the Earth’s total land area.
     
  • Africa is the second most populous continent in the world with more than 1.1 billion people or about 16% of the world’s population. Asia is the most populous continent with more than 4.4 billion people or 59% of the world population.
     
  • Africa is the poorest and least developed continent in the world. Of the 40% of illiterate people in Africa, 2/3 are women.
     
  • More than half of Africa’s population is under the age of 25, making it the youngest population in the world.
     
  • In Africa, more than 25 million people are infected with HIV and more than 17 million have already died from the disease. Of all malaria cases worldwide, 90% occur in Africa.
     
  • Deforestation rates in Africa are twice those in the rest of the world. Kenya and Zambia have only about 1-5% of the remaining primary forest.
     
  • Africa is home to more than 25% of the world’s bird species.
     
  • More than a thousand languages ​​are spoken in Africa.

List of African Countries and their Capitals: 

Serial No.

Country

Capital
1 Algeria  Algiers 
2 Egypt Cairo 
3 Libya Tripoli 
4 Morocco Rabat 
5 Sudan Khartoum 
6 Tunisia Tunis 
7 Burundi Gitega 
8 Comoros Moroni 
9 Djibouti Djibouti 
10 Eritrea Asmara
11 Ethiopia Addis Ababa 
12 Kenya Nairobi 
13 Madagascar Antananarivo 
14 Malawi Lilongwe 
15 Mauritius Port Louis 
16 Mozambique Maputo 
17 Rwanda Kigali 
18 Somalia Mogadishu Mogadishu
19 South Sudan Juba Juba
20 Tanzania Dodoma Dodoma
21 Seychelles Victoria 
22 Uganda Kampala 

23

Benin

Porto-Novo
24 Zambia Lusaka 
25 Zimbabwe  Harare 
26 Angola Luanda 
27 Cameroon Yaounde 
28 Central African Republic Bangui
29 Chad N’Djamena 
30 Botswana  Gaborone 
31 Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 
32 Cabo Verde Praia 
33 Congo, The Democratic Republic Kinshasa
34 Congo Republic Brazzaville 
35 Cote d’Ivoire Yamoussoukro 
36 Equatorial Guinea Malabo 
37 Eswatini(Swaziland) Mbabane 
38 Gabon Libreville 
39 Gambia Banjul 
40 Ghana Accra 
41 Guinea  Conakry
42 Guinea-Bissau Bissau 
43 Lesotho Maseru 
44 Liberia Monrovia 
45 Mali Bamako 
46 Mauritania  Nouakchott 
47 Namibia Windhoek 
48 Niger Niamey 
49 Nigeria Abuja 
50 Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome 
51 Senegal Dakar 
52 Sierra Leone Free Town 
53 South Africa Pretoria 
54 Togo  Lome


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