Land area in Africa

54 countries in Africa, 2023. Unit: km². World ranking →

First in the ranking
2,381,740 km²
Algeria
Median country
329,750 km²
half above, half below
World total
129.8 mn km²
World Bank aggregate
Range
460 to 2,381,740
Seychelles - Algeria

How to read it

Across 54 countries in Africa, the highest value is in Algeria (2,381,740 km²) and the lowest in Seychelles (460 km²).

The median country is at 329,750 km²: half are above, half below.

Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

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Source: FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), uri: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RL, publisher: Food and Agriculture… · via World Bank WDI (AG.LND.TOTL.K2) · licence

Land area over time

km²

Ranking of countries

2023
In chart Share of the highest value
1Algeria2,381,740
2Democratic Republic of the Congo2,267,050
3Sudan1,868,000
4Libya1,759,540
5Niger1,266,700
6Chad1,259,200
7Angola1,246,700
8Mali1,220,190
9South Africa1,213,090
10Ethiopia1,128,499
11Mauritania1,030,700
12Egypt995,450
13Nigeria910,770
14Tanzania885,800
15Namibia823,290
16Mozambique786,380
17Zambia743,390
18South Sudan631,930
19Somalia627,340
20Central African Republic622,980
21Madagascar581,800
22Kenya580,876
23Botswana566,730
24Cameroon472,710
25Morocco446,300
26Zimbabwe386,850
27Republic of the Congo341,500
28Côte d'Ivoire318,000
29Burkina Faso273,600
30Gabon257,670
31Guinea245,720
32Ghana227,533
33Uganda200,520
34Senegal192,530
35Tunisia155,360
36Eritrea121,178
37Benin112,760
38Liberia96,320
39Malawi94,280
40Sierra Leone72,180
41Togo54,390
42Lesotho30,360
43Guinea-Bissau28,120
44Equatorial Guinea28,050
45Burundi25,680
46Rwanda24,670
47Djibouti23,180
48Eswatini17,200
49The Gambia10,120
50Cabo Verde4,030
51Mauritius1,997
52Comoros1,861
53São Tomé and Principe960
54Seychelles460
World Bank, WDI · AG.LND.TOTL.K2 · 2023 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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