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]

List

North

#	Member state	Capital	Area (km^2)
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 (km^2)
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

#	Member state	Capital	Area (km^2)
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 (km^2)
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 (km^2)
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

Sixth Region

The AU considers the African diaspora as its sixth region.^[2]

References

1. "Appendix 1: AU Regions, Strengthening PoPular ParticiPation in the African Union" (PDF). OSISA and Oxfam. 2009. p. 62. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
2. Khamis, Kassim (4 March 2013). "Abolish the African Diaspora as the 6th Region and Bring Back Pan African Congresses". http://africansuntimes.com/. Retrieved 3 February 2014. External link in |publisher= (help)