United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division Urban and Rural Areas 1996 Population of the largest urban agglomerations in 1995 ------------------------------------------- As percentage Population of urban Country or area Agglomeration (thousands) population --------------- ------------- ----------- ------------- Africa Eastern Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------- Burundi Bujumbura 278 60.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Comoros Moroni 36 19.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Djibouti Djibouti 493 100.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Eritrea Asmara 431 79.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethiopia Addis Ababa 2431 28.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenya Nairobi 1810 23.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Madagascar Antananarivo 876 22.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Malawi Lilongwe 437 33.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauritius (1) Port Louis 165 36.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mozambique Maputo 2212 37.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Reunion Saint-Denis 133 30.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Rwanda Kigali 286 97.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Seychelles Victoria 40 100.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Somalia Mogadishu 997 41.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Uganda Kampala 954 38.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- United Rep. of Tanzania Dar Es Salaam 1747 24.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Zambia Lusaka 1317 37.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Zimbabwe Harare 1410 39.7 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Middle Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------- Angola Luanda 2081 62.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cameroon Douala 1320 22.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Central African Republic Bangui 553 43.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Chad Ndjamena 826 58.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Congo Brazzaville 1004 66.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dem. Rep. of the Congo Kinshasa 4241 32.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Equatorial Guinea Bata 31 18.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabon Libreville 419 77.7 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome 57 100.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Northern Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------- Algeria Algiers 3705 23.7 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Egypt Cairo 9690 35.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Tripoli 1682 36.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Morocco Casablanca 3101 22.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sudan Khartoum 2249 26.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tunisia Tunis 1722 30.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Western Sahara Laayoune 159 69.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Southern Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------- Botswana Gaborone 182 20.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lesotho Maseru 297 61.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Namibia Windhoek 190 34.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- South Africa Cape Town 2727 13.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Swaziland Mbabane 61 22.8 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Western Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------- Benin Cotonou 616 29.7 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 824 49.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cape Verde Praia 68 32.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Cote d'Ivoire Abidjan 2793 47.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gambia Banjul 186 57.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ghana Accra 1673 26.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Guinea Conakry 1558 72.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Guinea-Bissau Bissau 233 100.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberia Monrovia 962 100.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mali Bamako 919 31.7 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauritania Nouakchott 694 59.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Niger Niamey 587 35.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigeria Lagos 10287 23.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------- St. Helena (2) Jamestown 3 79.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Senegal Dakar 1708 47.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sierra Leone Freetown 699 50.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Togo Lome 662 52.8 --------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Including Agalega, Rodrigues and St. Brandon. (2) Including Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. United Nations publication, (ST/ESA/SER.A/166), Sales No. E.97.XIII.3 Copyright (C) United Nations 1997