The 53 countries in alphabetical order are: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, ...

There are 54 countries in Africa. This constitutes almost 15% of the world's population (2009 census). Over 1 000 official languages are spoken across the African continent; and the largest religious group is Islam, followed by Christianity.

The countries differ immensely geographically, politically, socially, economically, and culturally. The UN Statistics Division has subdivided the African continent into five regions, Northern Africa, Central or Middle Africa , Southern Africa, East Africa, and Western Africa.