Freetown
Lomé
Sierra Leone
Togo
60
16
Lubumbashi
Mbuji-Mayi
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
137
Nairobi
Antananarivo
Kenya
Madagascar
95
Kampala
Dar es Salaam
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
31
Pretoria
Vereeniging
Lusaka
Harare
South Africa
South Africa
Zambia
Zimbabwe
*Projections
117
Port Elizabeth
South Africa
546
143
275
192
900
Ekurhuleni (East Rand)
Johannesburg
South Africa
484
618
52
92
67
South Africa
Cape Town
Durban
South Africa
South Africa
Maputo
Matola
Mozambique
Mozambique
Southern Africa
69
Muqdisho (Mogadishu)
Somalia
2 17
Lilongwe
Kigali
Malawi
Rwanda
177
94
Addis Ababa
Mombasa
Ethiopia
392
70
96
38
202
24
95
Kenya
Eastern Africa
Kinshasa
Kisangani
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Pointe-Noire
Kananga
Congo
22 83
N’Djaména
Brazzaville
Chad
Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
32
Douala
Yaoundé
Cameroon
Cameroon
138
Huambo
Luanda
Angola
15
33
92
201
Angola
Central Africa
Port Harcourt
Dakar
Nigeria
Senegal
THE STATE OF AFRICAN CITIES 2014
271
135
248
91
187
419
289
1,147
682
677
803
81
181
162
137
94
33
8
252
290
159
519
136
194
134
443
136
62
124
70
75
153
219
37
95
119
349
266
417
278
306
565
477
1,444
898
856
1,114
128
371
357
340
272
59
34
363
531
254
729
262
325
235
1,070
424
116
238
155
183
298
459
61
192
206
610
482
616
533
451
688
590
1,656
1,107
1,214
1,609
203
550
836
469
551
128
124
580
862
350
1,175
407
482
291
2,053
330
217
446
324
415
571
962
153
344
361
957
680
1,047
757
743
911
828
1,898
1,531
1,723
2,155
319
776
1,316
755
1,035
219
266
948
1,380
476
1,791
573
647
358
3,520
348
363
704
477
777
940
1,568
326
562
529
1,405
1,091
1,379
1,073
897
1,084
958
2,732
2,326
2,370
2,715
498
1,019
2,116
1,097
1,201
497
477
1,361
2,214
683
2,377
891
960
516
5,414
533
539
1,022
703
1,351
1,490
2,591
578
904
688
2,029
1,807
1,526
1,719
1,174
1,468
1,097
3,763
3,284
2,954
3,492
759
1,132
3,415
1,594
1,426
961
738
1,900
3,237
940
2,919
1,433
1,486
783
8,415
846
807
1,557
1,038
2,320
2,348
4,790
1,039
1,453
910
2,926
2,782
1,990
2,764
1,406
1,753
1,309
4,421
3,872
3,471
4,096
1,120
1,507
5,677
2,669
2,693
1,499
1,195
3,091
4,939
1,411
3,881
2,172
2,242
1,192
12,322
1,293
1,081
2,074
1,522
3,420
3,408
7,555
1,666
2,151
1,294
4,227
3,371
2,337
3,496
1,522
1,894
1,418
4,732
4,150
3,724
4,388
1,360
1,823
7,276
3,540
3,309
1,835
1,538
3,898
6,143
1,775
4,705
2,606
2,689
1,439
14,535
1,559
1,240
2,364
1,870
3,997
3,983
8,924
1,997
2,472
1,540
5,064