You often hear people referring to East Africa, or North Africa but it's not always clear which countries belong to which region. Find out from the list below:

Northern Africa (shaded blue on the map) includes:

• Algeria
• Egypt
• Libya
• Morocco
• Sudan
• Tunisia
• Western Sahara

Western Africa (shaded green on the map) includes:

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cape Verde
• Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Liberia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo

Eastern Africa (shaded yellow on the map) includes:

• Burundi
• Comoros
• Djibouti
• Eritrea

• Ethiopia
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Rwanda
• Seychelles
• Somalia
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Middle (Central) Africa (shaded purple on the map) includes:

• Angola
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Equatorial Guinea
• Gabon
• Republic of the Congo
• São Tomé and Príncipe

Southern Africa (shaded red on the map) includes:

• Botswana
• Lesotho
• Namibia
• South Africa
• Swaziland