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African Countries and Capitals
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Geography
8th Grade
03/13/2008

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Term
Algeria
Definition

Algiers

Borders: Mediterranean Sea, Morocco, Western Sahara Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Libya, Tunisia 

Term
Benin
Definition

Porto-Novo

Borders: Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo, Gulf of Guinea, Nigeria

Term
Angola
Definition

Luanda

Borders: DR of Congo, Namibia, Zambia 

Term

Botswana 

Definition

Gabarone

Borders: Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe 

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Burkina Faso
Definition

Ouagadougou

Borders: Mali, Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger

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Burundi
Definition

Bujumbura

Borders: Rwanda, DR of Congo, Tanzania 

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Cameroon
Definition

Yaounde

Borders: Nigeria, Equitorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Chad 

Term
Cape Verde (islands)
Definition

Praia

Surrounded by Atlantic Ocean due west of Senegal. 

Term
Central African Republic
Definition

Bangui

Borders: Sudan, Chad, Cameroon, Congo, DR of Congo 

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Comoros (islands)
Definition

Moroni

Surrounded by Indian Ocean at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel

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Chad
Definition

N'Djamena

Borders: Libya, Niger, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sudan 

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Congo
Definition

Brazzaville

Borders: Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Angola (Cabinda), DR of Congo 

Term

Democratic Republic of Congo

(formerly Zaire) 

Definition

Kinshasa

Borders: Sudan, Central African Republic, Congo, Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda 

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Djibouti
Definition

Djibouti

Borders: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Gulf of Aden 

Term
Cote d'Ivoire
Definition

Yamoussoukro

Borders: Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, Liberia, Ghana 

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Egypt
Definition

Cairo

Borders: Mediterranean Sea, Libya, Sudan, Red Sea 

 

Term

Equitorial Guinea

 

Definition

Malabo (located on Bioko island)

Borders: Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea, Gabon 

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Eritrea
Definition

Asmara

Borders: Red Sea, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti 

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Ethiopia
Definition

Addis-Ababa

Borders: Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan, Kenya, Somalia 

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Gabon
Definition

Libreville

Borders: Cameroon, Equitoreal Guinea, Congo 

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Gambia
Definition

Banjul

Borders: Senegal 

Term
Ghana
Definition

Accra

Borders: Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire, Gulf of Guinea, Togo

Term
Guinea
Definition

Conakry

Borders: Mali, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote D'Ivoire 

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Kenya
Definition

Nairobi

Borders: Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia 

Term
Guinea-Bissau
Definition

Bissau

Borders: Senegal, Guinea 

Term
Lesotho
Definition

Maseru

Borders: South Africa 

Term
Liberia
Definition

Monrovia

Borders: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Cote D'Ivoire 

Term
Libya
Definition

Tripoli

Borders: Mediterranean Sea, Tunisia, Algeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Egypt 

Term
Madagascar
Definition

Antananarivo

Surrounded by Indian Ocean and the Mozambique Channel 

Term
Malawi
Definition

Lilongwe

Borders: Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique 

Term
Mali
Definition

Bamako

Borders: Algeria, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, Cote D'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Niger  

Term
Mauritania
Definition

Nouakchott

Borders: Western Sahara, Senegal, Mali, Algeria 

Term
Mauritius (island)
Definition

Port Louis

Surrounded by Indian Ocean, due east of Madagascar, and south of Seychelles 

Term
Morocco
Definition

Rabat

Borders: Western Sahara, Algeria, Mediterranean Sea

Term
Mozambique
Definition

Maputo

Borders: Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique Channel,  

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Namibia
Definition

Windhoek

Borders: Angola, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia 

Term
Niger
Definition

Niamey

Borders: Libya, Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria, Chad 

Term
Nigeria
Definition

Abuja

Borders: Niger, Benin, Gulf of Guinea, Cameroon, Chad 

Term
Rwanda
Definition

Kigali

Borders: Uganda, DR of Congo, Burundi, Tanzania 

Term
Sao Tome & Principe (islands)
Definition

Sao Tome

Surrounded by Gulf of Guinea, due west of Gabon and due south of Nigeria 

 

Term
Senegal
Definition

Dakar

Borders: Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali 

Term
Seychelles (islands)
Definition

Victoria

Surrounded by Indian Ocean, north of Mauritius and due east of Tanzania 

Term
Sierra Leone
Definition

Freetown

Borders: Guinea, Liberia 

Term
Somalia
Definition

Mogadishu

Borders: Gulf of Aden, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya

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South Africa
Definition

Pretoria, Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)

Borders: Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe 

Term
Sudan
Definition

Khartoum

Borders: Egypt, Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, DR of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea 

Term
Swaziland
Definition

Mbabane

Borders: South Africa, Mozambique 

Term
Tanzania
Definition

Dodoma 

Borders: Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DR of Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique 

Term
Togo
Definition

Lome

Borders: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Gulf of Guinea, Benin 

Term
Tunisia
Definition

Tunis

Borders: Mediterranean Sea, Algeria, Libya 

Term
Uganda
Definition

Kampala

Borders:  Sudan, DR of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya

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Zambia
Definition

Lusaka

Borders: DR of Congo, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania 

Term

Zimbabwe

 

Definition

Harare

Borders: Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique

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