Regions of the African Union

Regions of the AU
North Southern East West Central

The member states of the African Union are divided into five geographic regions of the African Union.^[1]

1 List
2 Additional Region
3 References

List

North

#	Member state	Capital	Area (km²)
1	Algeria	Algiers	2,381,740
2	Egypt	Cairo	1,001,451
3	Libya	Tripoli	1,759,540
4	Mauritania	Nouakchott	1,030,700
5	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	El Aaiún (proclaimed)	281,000
6	Tunisia	Tunis	163,610

Southern

#	Member state	Capital	Area (km²)
1	Angola	Luanda	1,246,700
2	Botswana	Gaborone	581,726
3	Lesotho	Maseru	30,355
4	Malawi	Lilongwe	118,484
5	Mozambique	Maputo	801,590
6	Namibia	Windhoek	824,116
7	South Africa	Pretoria	1,221,037
8	Swaziland	Mbabane	17,364
9	Zambia	Lusaka	752,618
10	Zimbabwe	Harare	390,757

East Africa

#	Member state	Capital	Area (km²)
1	Comoros	Moroni	2,235
2	Djibouti	Djibouti	23,200
3	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	1,104,300
4	Eritrea	Asmara	117,600
5	Kenya	Nairobi	580,367
6	Madagascar	Antananarivo	587,041
7	Mauritius	Port Louis	2,040
8	Rwanda	Kigali	26,798
9	Seychelles	Victoria	451
10	Somalia	Mogadishu	637,661
11	South Sudan	Juba	619,745
12	Sudan	Khartoum	1,886,068
13	Tanzania	Dodoma	945,087
14	Uganda	Kampala	236,040

West

#	Member state	Capital	Area (km²)
1	Benin	Porto-Novo	112,622
2	Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	274,000
3	Cabo Verde	Praia	4,033
4	Côte d'Ivoire	Yamoussoukro	322,462
5	Gambia	Banjul	10,380
6	Ghana	Accra	238,534
7	Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	36,125
8	Guinea	Conakry	245,857
9	Liberia	Monrovia	111,369
10	Mali	Bamako	1,240,192
11	Niger	Niamey	1,267,000
12	Nigeria	Abuja	923,768
13	Senegal	Dakar	196,723
14	Sierra Leone	Freetown	71,740
15	Togo	Lomé	56,785

Central

#	Member state	Capital	Area (km²)
1	Burundi	Bujumbura	27,834
2	Cameroon	Yaounde	475,442
3	Central African Republic	Bangui	622,984
4	Chad	N'Djamena	1,284,000
5	Congo Republic	Brazzaville	342,000
6	DR Congo	Kinshasa	2,345,409
7	Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	28,051
8	Gabon	Libreville	267,667
9	São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	964

Additional Region

The AU considers the African diaspora and some of the five current Regions of the African Union that may be further sub-divided due to containing more member states, as its additional regions.^[2]

References

African Union (AU)

History

Pan-Africanism Casablanca Group Abuja Treaty Sirte Declaration Lome Summit

Organisation of African Unity	Chairperson Secretary General

Geography

Organs

Executive Council Permanent Representatives' Committee Specialized Technical Committees

Assembly	Chairperson

Commission	Chairperson Deputy Chairperson AUCC

Pan-African Parliament	Bureau Secretariat Gallagher Estate

African Court of Justice	African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

ECOSOCC Committees	Peace and Security Political Affairs Infrastructure and Energy Social Affairs and Health HR, Sciences and Technology Trade and Industry Rural Economy and Agriculture Economic Affairs Women and Gender Cross-Cutting Programs

Financial Institutions	African Central Bank African Monetary Fund African Investment Bank

Peace and Security Council	ACIRC African Standby Force Panel of the Wise UNAMID AMIB AMIS AMISOM MISCA

Politics

APRM Foreign relations African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Enlargement

Symbols	Anthem Emblem Flag

Economy

Culture

Theory

Category

Categories

African Union

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Regions of the African Union