Regions of the African Union
Regions of the AU
North
Southern
East
West
Central
The member states of the African Union are divided into five geographic regions of the African Union.[1]
List
North
# | Member state | Capital | Area (km2) |
1 | Algeria | Algiers | 2,381,740 |
2 | Egypt | Cairo | 1,001,451 |
3 | Libya | Tripoli | 1,759,540 |
4 | Mauritania | Nouakchott | 1,030,700 |
5 | Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | El Aaiún (proclaimed) | 281,000 |
6 | Tunisia | Tunis | 163,610 |
Southern
# | Member state | Capital | Area (km2) |
1 | Angola | Luanda | 1,246,700 |
2 | Botswana | Gaborone | 581,726 |
3 | Lesotho | Maseru | 30,355 |
4 | Malawi | Lilongwe | 118,484 |
5 | Mozambique | Maputo | 801,590 |
6 | Namibia | Windhoek | 824,116 |
7 | South Africa | Pretoria | 1,221,037 |
8 | Swaziland | Mbabane | 17,364 |
9 | Zambia | Lusaka | 752,618 |
10 | Zimbabwe | Harare | 390,757 |
East
# | Member state | Capital | Area (km2) |
1 | Comoros | Moroni | 2,235 |
2 | Djibouti | Djibouti | 23,200 |
3 | Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 1,104,300 |
4 | Eritrea | Asmara | 117,600 |
5 | Kenya | Nairobi | 580,367 |
6 | Madagascar | Antananarivo | 587,041 |
7 | Mauritius | Port Louis | 2,040 |
8 | Rwanda | Kigali | 26,798 |
9 | Seychelles | Victoria | 451 |
10 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 637,661 |
11 | South Sudan | Juba | 619,745 |
12 | Sudan | Khartoum | 1,886,068 |
13 | Tanzania | Dodoma | 945,087 |
14 | Uganda | Kampala | 236,040 |
West
# | Member state | Capital | Area (km2) |
1 | Benin | Porto-Novo | 112,622 |
2 | Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | 274,000 |
3 | Cabo Verde | Praia | 4,033 |
4 | Côte d'Ivoire | Yamoussoukro | 322,462 |
5 | Gambia | Banjul | 10,380 |
6 | Ghana | Accra | 238,534 |
7 | Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | 36,125 |
8 | Guinea | Conakry | 245,857 |
9 | Liberia | Monrovia | 111,369 |
10 | Mali | Bamako | 1,240,192 |
11 | Niger | Niamey | 1,267,000 |
12 | Nigeria | Abuja | 923,768 |
13 | Senegal | Dakar | 196,723 |
14 | Sierra Leone | Freetown | 71,740 |
15 | Togo | Lomé | 56,785 |
Central
# | Member state | Capital | Area (km2) |
1 | Burundi | Bujumbura | 27,834 |
2 | Cameroon | Yaounde | 475,442 |
3 | Central African Republic | Bangui | 622,984 |
4 | Chad | N'Djamena | 1,284,000 |
5 | Congo Republic | Brazzaville | 342,000 |
6 | DR Congo | Kinshasa | 2,345,409 |
7 | Equatorial Guinea | Malabo | 28,051 |
8 | Gabon | Libreville | 267,667 |
9 | São Tomé and Príncipe | São Tomé | 964 |
Sixth Region
The AU considers the African diaspora as its sixth region.[2]
References