List of cities in Africa by population

The following is a list of the 100 largest cities in Africa by city proper population using the most recent official estimate. This includes only cities located geographically in Africa.

Lagos, Nigeria is the largest city in Africa and one of the primary economic hubs for the continent.

Cairo, Egypt is formerly the largest city in Africa, before being recently overtaken by the fast-growing Lagos.

Luanda, the capital of Angola.

Johannesburg is the largest city and economic hub of South Africa and all of southern Africa containing the tallest building in Africa.

The largest city in Central Africa and 5th on the whole of the continent: Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Skyscrapers in Egypt's second largest city: Alexandria.

Highway running through downtown Abidjan: the largest city in Cote d'Ivoire and West Africa.

Skyline of Dar es Salaam: the largest city in Tanzania and eastern Africa.

Skyline of Nairobi: the largest and capital city of Kenya, largest megalopolis in eastern Africa and the region's the financial and economic capital.

Skyline of Giza, a mega-suburb of Cairo and the third largest city in Egypt with over 4 million inhabitants.

Downtown Cape Town, South Africa; the second largest city in the country and the southernmost city in Africa.

Aerial view of the extent of the Casablanca urban area, the largest in Morocco.

Addis Ababa, the capital and largest city in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa is also the de facto capital of the African Union and the twelfth-largest city in Africa.