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Lomé
Benin City
Ogbomosho
Kaduna
Abuja
Ibadan
Lagos
Dakar
Conakry
Bamako
Ouagadougou Niamey
Kano
Abidjan
Accra
Kumasi
Luanda
Cape Town
Johannesburg
Pretoria
Port Elizabeth
Durban
Maputo
Antananarivo
Mogadishu
Mombasa
Dar es Salaam
Nairobi
Addis Ababa
Khartoum
Tripoli
Algiers
Fes
Casablanca
Rabat
Yaoundé
Douala
Kampala
Harare
Lubumbashi
Kinshasa
Mbuji-Mayi
Brazzaville
Alexandria
Cairo
Million inhabitants, 2010
Inhabitants per square kilometre, 2010
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.
Large urban agglomerations
Population density
11
5
2
1
1 to 5
6 to 25
26 to 50
51 to 100
101 to 250
251 to 500
501 to 1 000
More than 1 000
Population distribution in Africa