Countries of Africa.

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most-populous continent, comprising 54 sovereign states across roughly 30.4 million square kilometres. From the Mediterranean coastline of Morocco and Egypt in the north to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, and from the Atlantic shores of Senegal to the Indian Ocean coast of Somalia, Africa encompasses an extraordinary range of climates, ecosystems and human cultures. The continent is commonly divided into six broad regions: North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa and the Horn of Africa.

No continent on Earth matches Africa's linguistic diversity. An estimated 2,000 or more distinct languages are spoken across its 54 nations, belonging to four major language families: Niger-Congo (including Bantu languages like Swahili, Zulu and Shona), Afroasiatic (Arabic, Amharic, Hausa, Somali), Nilo-Saharan (Luo, Kanuri, Dinka) and Khoisan (the click languages of Southern Africa). Several writing systems are in active use: the Latin alphabet (adopted by most countries through colonial history), Arabic script (dominant in North Africa and parts of the Sahel), Ge'ez (Ethiopic) script for Amharic and Tigrinya in Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Tifinagh for Tamazight in Morocco and parts of the Sahara.

Many African countries have official names that differ significantly from their common English designations. Egypt is مصر (Misr) in Arabic, Ethiopia is ኢትዮጵያ in Amharic, and Eswatini — formerly known as Swaziland — uses its own siSwati name officially. Below you will find all 54 African countries listed alphabetically with their flags, native names and ISO codes.