Here are the countries of South America, as well as their capitals, areas and populations.
| Country | Capital | Area (km ²) | Population |
| Algeria | Algiers | 2,381,741 | 42,008,054 |
| Angola | Luanda | 1,246,700 | 30,774,205 |
| Benin | Porto-Novo | 112,622 | 1,485,674 |
| Botswana | Gaborone | 581,726 | 2,333,201 |
| Burkina Faso | Ouagadougou | 274,000 | 19,751,651 |
| Burundi | Bujumbura | 27,830 | 11,216,450 |
| Cabo Verde | Praia | 4,033 | 553,335 |
| Cameroon | Yaounde | 475,442 | 24,678,234 |
| Central African Republic | Bangui | 622,984 | 4,737,423 |
| Chad | N’Djamena | 1,284,000 | 15,353,184 |
| Comoros | Moroni | 2,235 | 832,347 |
| Democratic Republic of Congo | Kinshasa | 2,344,858 | 84,004,989 |
| Republic of the Congo | Brazzaville | 342,000 | 5,399,895 |
| Cote d’Ivoire | Yamoussoukro | 322,460 | 24,905,843 |
| Djibouti | Djibouti (city) | 23,200 | 971,408 |
| Egypt | Cairo | 1,001,449 | 99,375,741 |
| Equatorial Guinea | Malabo (de jure), | 28,051 | 1,313,894 |
| Eritrea | Asmara | 117,600 | 5,187,948 |
| Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 1,104,300 | 107,534,882 |
| Gabon | Libreville | 267,668 | 2,067,561 |
| Gambia | Banjul | 10,380 | 2,163,765 |
| Ghana | Accra | 238,534 | 29,463,643 |
| Guinea | Conakry | 245,857 | 13,052,608 |
| Guinea-Bissau | Bissau | 36,125 | 1,907,268 |
| Kenya | Nairobi | 580,367 | 50,950,879 |
| Lesotho | Maseru | 30,355 | 2,263,010 |
| Liberia | Monrovia | 111,369 | 4,853,516 |
| Libya | Tripoli | 1,759,540 | 6,470,956 |
| Madagascar | Antananarivo | 587,041 | 26,262,810 |
| Malawi | Lilongwe | 118,484 | 19,164,728 |
| Mali | Bamako | 1,240,192 | 19,107,706 |
| Mauritania | Nouakchott | 1,030,700 | 4,540,068 |
| Mauritius | Port Louis | 2,040 | 1,268,315 |
| Morocco | Rabat | 446,550 | 36,191,805 |
| Mozambique | Maputo | 801,590 | 30,528,673 |
| Namibia | Windhoek | 825,418 | 2,587,801 |
| Niger | Niamey | 1,267,000 | 22,311,375 |
| Nigeria | Abuja | 923,768 | 195,875,237 |
| Rwanda | Kigali | 26,798 | 12,501,156 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | São Tomé | 964 | 208,818 |
| Senegal | Dakar | 196,723 | 16,294,270 |
| Seychelles | Victoria | 451 | 95,235 |
| Sierra Leone | Freetown | 71,740 | 7,719,729 |
| Somalia | Mogadishu | 637,657 | 15,181,925 |
| South Africa | Pretoria | 1,221,037 | 57,398,421 |
| South Sudan | Juba | 644,329 | 12,919,053 |
| Sudan | Khartoum | 1,861,484 | 41,511,526 |
| Swaziland | Mbabane | 17,364 | 1,391,385 |
| Tanzania | Dodoma | 945,203 | 59,091,392 |
| Togo | Lomé | 56,785 | 7,990,926 |
| Tunisia | Tunis | 163,610 | 11,659,174 |
| Uganda | Kampala | 236,040 | 44,270,563 |
| Zambia | Lusaka | 752,614 | 17,609,178 |
| Zimbabwe | Harare | 390,757 | 16,913,261 |
