List of African countries by highest point

Sovereign, fully recognized countries

Rank	Country	Highest point	Elevation	Notes
1	Tanzania	Mount Kilimanjaro	5,892 m (19,331 ft)	Highest point in Africa.
2	Kenya	Batian on Mount Kenya	5,199 m (17,057 ft)
3	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Margherita Peak on Mount Stanley	5,110 m (16,765 ft)
4	Uganda	Margherita Peak on Mount Stanley	5,110 m (16,765 ft)
5	Ethiopia	Ras Dejen	4,550 m (14,928 ft)[1]
6	Rwanda	Mount Karisimbi	4,519 m (14,826 ft)
7	Morocco	Jbel Toubkal	4,165 m (13,665 ft)
8	Cameroon	Fako on Mount Cameroon	4,040 m (13,255 ft)[1]
9	Lesotho	Thabana Ntlenyana	3,482 m (11,424 ft)
10	South Africa	Mafadi	3,450 m (11,319 ft)
11	Chad	Emi Koussi	3,445 m (11,302 ft)[1]
12	South Sudan	Kinyeti	3,187 m (10,456 ft)
13	Sudan	Deriba Caldera	3,042 m (9,980 ft)
14	Eritrea	Emba Soira	3,018 m (9,902 ft)
15	Equatorial Guinea	Pico Basile	3,008 m (9,869 ft)
16	Algeria	Mount Tahat	3,003 m (9,852 ft)
17	Malawi	Sapitwa (Mulanje Massif)	3,002 m (9,849 ft)
18	Madagascar	Maromokotro	2,876 m (9,436 ft)
19	Cape Verde	Mount Fogo	2,829 m (9,281 ft)
20	Burundi	south east of Mount Heha	2,684 m (8,806 ft)[1]
21	Egypt	Mount Catherine	2,629 m (8,625 ft)
22	Angola	Morro de Môco	2,620 m (8,596 ft)
23	Namibia	Konigstein	2,606 m (8,550 ft)
24	Zimbabwe	Mount Nyangani	2,592 m (8,504 ft)
25	Somalia	Mount Shimbiris	2,460 m (8,071 ft)
26	Mozambique	Monte Binga	2,436 m (7,992 ft)
27	Nigeria	Chappal Waddi	2,419 m (7,936 ft)
28	Zambia	unnamed location in Mafinga Hills	2,329 m (7,641 ft)
29	Libya	Bikku Bitti	2,267 m (7,438 ft)
30	Djibouti	Mousa Ali	2,028 m (6,654 ft)
31	São Tomé and Príncipe	Pico de São Tomé	2,024 m (6,640 ft)
32	Niger	Mont Idoukal-n-Taghès	2,022 m (6,634 ft)
33	Sierra Leone	Mount Bintumani (Loma Mansa)	1,948 m (6,391 ft)
34	Swaziland	Emlembe	1,862 m (6,109 ft)
35	Côte d'Ivoire	Mont Nimba	1,752 m (5,748 ft)
36	Guinea	Mont Nimba	1,752 m (5,748 ft)
37	Tunisia	Jebel ech Chambi	1,544 m (5,066 ft)
38	Botswana	Otse Hill	1,491 m (4,892 ft)[2]
39	Liberia	Mount Wuteve	1,440 m (4,724 ft)[1]
40	Central African Republic	Mont Ngaoui	1,420 m (4,659 ft)
41	Mali	Hombori Tondo	1,155 m (3,789 ft)
42	Gabon	Mont Bengoué	1,070 m (3,510 ft)[3]
43	Republic of the Congo	Mont Nabeba	1,020 m (3,346 ft)
44	Togo	Mont Agou	986 m (3,235 ft)
45	Mauritania	Kediet ej Jill	915 m (3,002 ft)
46	Burkina Faso	Tena Kourou	749 m (2,457 ft)
47	Benin	Mont Sokbaro	658 m (2,159 ft)
48	Senegal	unnamed feature near Nepen Diakha	581 m (1,906 ft)
49	Guinea-Bissau	unnamed location in the northeast corner of the country	300 m (984 ft)
50	Gambia	unnamed location	53 m (174 ft)
51	Maldives	unnamed location on Villingili Island	2 m (7 ft)

Countries with disputed sovereignty

Rank	Country	Claimant	Highest point	Height	Notes
200	Western Sahara	Morocco	unnamed location	463 m (1,519 ft)

See also

• Table of elevation extremes by country
  • List of highest points of European countries
  • List of countries by lowest point
• List of islands by highest point
• List of highest towns by country
• List of highest mountains

References

• CIA World Factbook 2006 (items marked * have been amended, see for supporting documentation). Both this list and the CIA list may contain further errors. Despite the claim by the CIA that their list was updated in July 2006, none of the errors listed on the talk page have been corrected.
• World Tops and Bottoms, by Grant Hutchison, 1996, TACit Press, ISBN 0-9522680-4-3, and subsequent research by the same author, in collaboration with field research by Ginge Fullen.
• Data supplied by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
• Information about specific items on talk page

1. Some authorities give other elevations for these national high points. For more information, see the appropriate summit pages.
2. Monalanong Hill is a mountain often considered the highest point of Botswana, with a questioned altitude of 1,494 metres (4,900 feet). This datum comes from the SRTM database just as the 1,491 m for Otse. The error range of these data is significantly higher (approximately 15 m), but a British explorer did a GPS reading on the top of both hills, and his measurement showed Otse slightly higher.
3. Claims that Mont Iboundji is the highest point and more than 1500 metres high are not supported by SRTM data.