List of the largest metropolitan areas in Africa

Rank	City	Country	Population (2007)
1	Cairo-Giza		15,907,574
2	Lagos		11,615,563
3	Kinshasa-Brazzaville	/	9,575,626
4	Khartoum-Umm Durman-Bahri		8,363,915
5	Johannesburg-Soweto		7,372,314
6	Algiers		5,937,183
7	Abidjan		5,317,003
8	Ibadan		4,712,877
9	Cape Town		4,709,212
10	Alexandria		4,368,095
11	Luanda		4,040,762
12	Kano		4,033,069
13	Nairobi		3,922,110
14	Accra		3,554,218
15	Durban		3,368,631
16	Casablanca		3,209,054
17	Harare-Chitungwiza		2,919,512
18	Dar es Salaam		2,915,979
19	Addis Abeba		2,888,248
20	Mogadishu		2,855,805
21	Dakar		2,461,682
22	Lusaka		2,389,572
23	Pretoria-Verwoerdburg		2,187,172
24	Conakry		2,064,236
25	Tunis-Aryanah-at-Tadaman Dawwar Hisar		2,028,662
26	Yaoundé		1,928,882
27	Maputo-Matola		1,926,940
28	Tripoli		1,894,852
29	Douala		1,834,817
30	Bamako		1,761,659
31	Monrovia		1,751,688
32	Kampala		1,735,918
33	Antanarivo		1,733,226
34	Rabat-Salé		1,721,760
35	Oshogbo-Ede-Inisa		1,675,704
36	Kaduna		1,652,844
37	Kumasi		1,604,909
38	Port Harcourt		1,499,603
39	Lubumbashi		1,485,288
40	N'Djaména-Kousséri	/	1,471,881
41	Kisangani		1,326,778
42	Port Elizabeth-Uitenhage		1,319,177
43	Mbuji-Mayi		1,221,333
44	Maiduguri		1,197,497
45	Benin		1,167,327
46	Benghazi		1,166,063
47	Onitsha-Nnewi-Okpoko-Obosi		1,156,380
48	Ouagadougou		1,152,402
49	Bouaké		1,126,623
50	Ogbomosho		1,098,912
51	Asmara		1,091,388
52	Zaria		1,018,927
53	Aba		1,012,762
54	Fes		1,001,798

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