Africa

Africa: the places inside it, the companies based here, and where this atlas has research on it.

continent · Africa · page prepared 2026-11-07

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Africa at a glance

Rolled up from the 209 regions inside Africa on this site.

Population—
registry estimate
Places inside180
1 with a full /local page
Businesses on file3,859
business register, all places inside
Companies headquartered230
in the company directory
Who represents them0
places with a /politics page
Property & employers8 · 0
/property and /employers records
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Largest places in Africa

By registry population; places with a full /local page are marked.

  1. 1.Ethiopia (Africa)138,000,000
  2. 2.Tanzania, Africa67,500,000
  3. 3.Algeria47,000,000
  4. 4.Uganda, Africa45,900,000
  5. 5.Cameroon (Africa)31,000,000
  6. 6.Burkina Faso (Africa)23,286,000
  7. 7.Malawi, Africa22,224,282
  8. 8.Lagos, Nigeria21,000,000
  9. 9.Somalia, Africa19,000,000
  10. 10.Kinshasa (Léopoldville), Congo18,500,000
  11. 11.Burundi (Africa)14,000,000
  12. 12.Tunisia, North Africa12,100,000
  13. 13.Cairo, Egypt full9,800,000
  14. 14.Luanda (Loanda), Angola8,800,000
  15. 15.Sierra Leone8,460,512
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Inside Africa

78 regions have Africa as their parent.

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Companies based in Africa

230 companies in the Research Upon directory have their headquarters somewhere in Africa. Search them by name or industry.

areaAbout this page: figures for the whole of Africa are rolled up from every region inside it; each place inside has a page of its own, and the companies headquartered here are listed above.