Green Hills, Blue Cities
Population distribution in Africa
Rabat
Alexandria
Tripoli
Algiers
Fes
Cairo
Casablanca
Ogbomosho
Khartoum
Dakar
Ouagadougou Niamey
Kano
Kaduna Abuja
Bamako
Ibadan
Kumasi
Conakry
Addis Ababa
Yaoundé
Abidjan
Accra
Nairobi
Kampala
Lomé Benin City
Douala
Mogadishu
Population density
Lagos
Kinshasa
Inhabitants per square kilometre, 2010
1 to 5 6 to 25 26 to 50 51 to 100
Brazzaville
Mombasa
Dar es Salaam
Luanda
Mbuji-Mayi
101 to 250 251 to 500 501 to 1 000 More than 1 000
Lubumbashi
Large urban agglomerations
Million inhabitants, 2010
Harare
11 5 2 1
Antananarivo
Pretoria
Maputo
Johannesburg
Notes 1. Only agglomerations bigger than 1 million inhabitants are shown.
2. Data projections based on 2009 estimates Sources: UNDESA, World Urbanisation Prospects, The 2009 Revision , 2010; CIESIN, Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center, online database, accessed on January 2011.
Durban
Cape Town
Port Elizabeth
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