Africa in 2020
This map shows the 80 states and peoples the data has for Africa in that year.
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States and peoples in Africa in 2020
Largest first, by area on this map.
- French Fifth Republic
- People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Republic of Sudan
- State of Libya
- South Africa
- Republic of Chad
- Mali Federation
- People's Republic of Angola
- Republic of the Niger
- Ethiopia
- Mauritania
- Arab Republic of Egypt
- Islamic Republic of Iran
- Federal Republic of Nigeria
- Tanzania
- Namibia
- Mozambique
- Zambia
- Federal Republic of Somalia
- Madagascar
- Central African Republic
- Republic of Botswana
- South Sudan
- Republic of Kenya
- United States of America
- Republic of Iraq
- Morocco
- Republic of Yemen
- Republic of Cameroon
- Republic of Zimbabwe
- Republic of the Congo
- Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
- Burkina Faso
- Republic of Turkey
- Gabon
- Guinea
- Ghana
- Republic of Uganda
- Republic of Senegal
- Republic of Tunisia
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Syria
- State of Eritrea
- Republic of Benin
- Kingdom of Spain
- Kingdom of Jordan
- Republic of Liberia
- Malawi
- Mujahideen
- Sultanate of Oman
- Sierra Leone
- Togo
- United Arab Emirates
- Third Hellenic Republic
- Lesotho
- State of Israel
- Republic of Guinea-Bissau
- Republic of Italy
- Republic of Rwanda
- Equatorial Guinea
- Republic of Burundi
- Republic of Djibouti
- Eswatini
- Kuwait
- Portugal
- Lebanon
- State of Qatar
- Republic of The Gambia
- Republic of Cyprus
- Turkmenistan
- Estado Novo
- Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
- Republic of Cabo Verde
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Kingdom of Bahrain
- British Overseas Territories
- Gaza/Hamas
- Malta
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Democratic Republic of the Congo · State of Libya · South Sudan · United States of America · Republic of Iraq · Mujahideen · British Overseas Territories · Gaza/Hamas
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The outlines are coarse and follow the Cliopatria dataset: borders before modern surveys are estimates, and a blank area means the data has no state on record there, not that nobody lived there. A state that changed hands during the year can appear together with its successor.