African Countries Ranked by Land Area

The following table ranks all 54 African countries by land area. It is an extremely close call between the two largest nations on the continent: Algeria and DRC.

Rank	Country	Total Area (km²)	Total Area (sq mi)
1	Algeria	2,381,741	919,595
2	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2,344,858	905,355
3	Sudan	1,861,484	718,723
4	Libya	1,759,540	679,360
5	Chad	1,284,000	496,000
6	Niger	1,267,000	489,000
7	Angola	1,246,700	481,400
8	Mali	1,240,192	478,841
9	South Africa	1,221,037	471,445
10	Ethiopia	1,104,300	426,400
11	Mauritania	1,030,700	398,000
12	Egypt	1,002,450	387,050
13	Tanzania	945,087	364,900
14	Nigeria	923,768	356,669
15	Namibia	825,615	318,772
16	Mozambique	801,590	309,500
17	Zambia	752,612	290,585
18	South Sudan	644,329	248,777
19	Somalia	637,657	246,201
20	Central African Republic	622,984	240,535
21	Madagascar	587,041	226,658
22	Botswana	581,730	224,610
23	Kenya	580,367	224,081
24	Cameroon	475,442	183,569
25	Morocco	446,550	172,410
26	Zimbabwe	390,757	150,872
27	Republic of the Congo	342,000	132,000
28	Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire)	322,460	124,500
29	Burkina Faso	274,223	105,878
30	Gabon	267,668	103,347
31	Guinea	245,857	94,926
32	Uganda	241,550	93,260
33	Ghana	238,533	92,098
34	Senegal	196,722	75,955
35	Tunisia	163,610	63,170
36	Malawi	118,484	45,747
37	Eritrea	117,600	45,400
38	Benin	114,763	44,310
39	Liberia	111,369	43,000
40	Sierra Leone	71,740	27,700
41	Togo	56,785	21,925
42	Guinea-Bissau	36,125	13,948
43	Lesotho	30,355	11,720
44	Equatorial Guinea	28,051	10,831
45	Burundi	27,834	10,747
46	Rwanda	26,338	10,169
47	Djibouti	23,200	9,000
48	Eswatini	17,364	6,704
49	Gambia	11,295	4,361
50	Cape Verde	4,033	1,557
51	Mauritius	2,239	864
52	Comoros	2,235	863
53	São Tomé and Príncipe	964	372
54	Seychelles	452	175