Africa is the second-largest continent in the world. It covers around 30.2 million square kilometers. That is around 20.4 percent of the earth’s land area. The African continent has 54 sovereign nations and 10 non-sovereign territories. Almost all the Countries in Africa are vast in landmass.
Here is a brief outline of the top 5 largest African countries, with information regarding the area covered.
Below is a list of 5 countries in Africa, in order of geographical area.
5. Chad (1,284,000 square kilometers)
Central African landlocked nation Chad has a population of 10.33 million. Around 1.9 percent of Chad is water. Lake Chad is the largest wetland in Chad, and the second-largest in the African continent.
Chad, officially known as the Republic of Chad is a landlocked country in north-central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon to the south-west, Nigeria to the southwest (at Lake Chad), and Niger to the west.
Chad is currently the 5th largest country in Africa.
4. Libya (1,759,540 square kilometers)
North African nation Libya is the seventeenth-largest country in the world. Tripoli is the largest city and the capital of Libya. Around one million of Libya’s six million people live in Tripoli.
Libya is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad to the south, Niger to the southwest, Algeria to the west, and Tunisia to the northwest. The sovereign state is made of three historical regions: Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. With an area of almost 1.8 million square kilometres (700,000 sq mi), Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa, and is the 16th largest country in the world.
Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world.
3. Sudan (1,861,484 square kilometers)
Sudan is an Arab republic located in the Nile valley of North Africa.
The Nile River divides the nation into eastern and western halves. Around 37.2 million people live in Sudan.
Sudan (/suːˈdɑːn/; Arabic: السودان as-Sūdān), sometimes calledNorth Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan (Arabic: جمهورية السودان Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in North-East Africa. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, Libya to thenorthwest, Chad to the west, the Central African Republic to thesouthwest, South Sudan to the south, Ethiopia to the southeast, Eritrea to the east, and the Red Sea to the northeast.
Sudan has a population of 43 million and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres (728,215 square miles), making it Africa’s third-largest country and also the third-largest in the Arab world. It was the largest country in Africa and the Arab world by area before the secession of South Sudan in 2011.
2. Democratic Republic of the Congo (2,344,858 square kilometers)
This Central African country is located on the Equator. The population of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is approximately 4.66 million. The country’s sparse population is concentrated in its southwestern part.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa, Zaire, DR Congo, DRC (the official acronym), the DROC, or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.
It was formerly called Zaire (1971–1997). It is, by area, the largest country in sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa (after Algeria), and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of over 101 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most-populous officially Francophone country in the world, as well as the fourth-most populous in Africa, and the 15th-most-populous country in the world.
1. The largest country in Africa is Algeria, which spans over 2,381,741 km² (919,352 mi²) and has a population of over 43 million people. It is also the tenth largest country in the world. Algeria is located in Northern Africa with a Mediterranean coastline and a Saharan desert interior.
Algeria, officially the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest by area in the African Union. With an estimated population of over 44 million, it is the eighth-most populous country in Africa.
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