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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