Capitals of North and West Africa

From Rabat and Cairo to Dakar, Abuja and Accra: the Maghreb, the Nile and the West African coast.

A round asks about ten of these 22, in a new order, each with four choices.

The 22 capitals

Country	Capital	Population
Algeria	Algiers	47.4 million (2025)
Benin	Porto-Novo (official capital, legislative capital (parliament)) Cotonou (seat of government) Porto-Novo is the official capital (National Assembly); the government sits in Cotonou.	14.8 million (2025)
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	24.1 million (2025)
Cabo Verde	Praia	527,326 (2025)
Côte d’Ivoire	Yamoussoukro (official capital) Abidjan (economic capital, de facto capital) Yamoussoukro has been the official capital since 1983; most institutions and embassies remain in Abidjan.	32.7 million (2025)
Egypt	Cairo	118 million (2025)
Gambia	Banjul	2.8 million (2025)
Ghana	Accra	35.1 million (2025)
Guinea	Conakry	15.1 million (2025)
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	2.2 million (2025)
Liberia	Monrovia	5.7 million (2025)
Libya	Tripoli	7.5 million (2025)
Mali	Bamako	25.2 million (2025)
Mauritania	Nouakchott	5.3 million (2025)
Morocco	Rabat	38.4 million (2025)
Niger	Niamey	27.9 million (2025)
Nigeria	Abuja	238 million (2025)
Senegal	Dakar	18.9 million (2025)
Sierra Leone	Freetown	8.8 million (2025)
Sudan	Khartoum	51.7 million (2025)
Togo	Lomé	8.6 million (2025)
Tunisia	Tunis	12.3 million (2025)

Population and area: The World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0). Capitals: Wikidata (CC0), checked against Natural Earth.