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Nouakchott (/ n w æ k ˈ ʃ ɒ t, n w ɑː-/ nwa(h)k-SHOT; French:; Arabic: نواكشوط, romanized: Nwākshūṭ, Hassaniyya: [nwakʃuːtˤ] ⓘ; Wolof: Nuwaaksoot; Pulaar: Nuwaasoot; Soninke: Nuwasooto; Berber: Nwakcoṭ, originally derived from Berber: Nawākšūṭ, 'place of the winds' [2] or alternatively Zenaga: in wakchodh, 'having no ears') [3] is the capital and largest city of ...
The population density of Africa as of 2000. North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
The Tunisian national handball team won the African Cup ten times, being the team dominating this competition. The Tunisians won the 2018 African Cup in Gabon by defeating Egypt. [259] Tunisia's national basketball team has emerged as a top side in Africa. The team won the 2011 Afrobasket and hosted Africa's top basketball event in 1965, 1987 ...
Africa: Lagos was the capital from 1914 to 1991. Accra Ghana: Adamstown Pitcairn Islands: Oceania: British Overseas Territory. Addis Ababa Ethiopia: Africa: Aden (de facto, temporary) Yemen: Asia: Yemen is in a state of civil war, and Sanaa has been occupied by Houthi rebels since September 2014. Aden, the former capital of South Yemen, is ...
East Africa's central business hub and Kenya's capital, Nairobi. Cape Peninsula of Cape Town, Africa's southernmost city and the second largest one in South Africa, also its legislative capital. Kampala is the hub of Uganda. View of Algiers: Algeria's metropolis is one of the most important economic and traditional centres in North Africa.
Capital city; List of countries whose capital is not their largest city; List of capitals outside the territories they serve; List of national capitals by latitude; List of countries and dependencies by population; List of towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants; List of population concern organizations; List of national capitals
'the Arab west') and Northwest Africa, [5] is the western part of the Arab world. The region comprises western and central North Africa, including Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, and Tunisia. The Maghreb also includes the disputed territory of Western Sahara. [note 1] As of 2018, the region had a population of over 100 million people.
This is a list of the largest urban agglomerations in Africa. Figures are from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report, ... Capital District: 1,292,000