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Kenema
Kenema is a city in Eastern Province, Sierra Leone, capital of Kenema District and the country's third largest city after Freetown and Bo; 255,110 residents at the 2021 census, an agriculture and diamond-mining economy.
Keta
Keta is a coastal town in Ghana's Volta Region, capital of Keta Municipal District, on the sand barrier enclosing Keta Lagoon, a large brackish Ramsar wetland; known for fishing, salt mining, erosion, flooding, and the planned Keta Port.
Kikwit
Kikwit, largest city of Kwilu Province, DR Congo, on the Kwilu River; colonial trade hub, city since 1970, epicenter of the 1995 Ebola outbreak (315 cases, 254 deaths), with population estimates from about 400,000 to 1.3 million.
Kilamba
Kilamba (Nova Cidade de Kilamba, Kilamba Kiaxi) is a Chinese-built satellite city about 30 km south of Luanda, Angola: 20,000 CITIC-built apartments financed by a USD 3.5 billion oil-backed Chinese credit line, inaugurated 2011, initially a near-empty 'ghost town' before price cuts filled it with middle-class residents.
Kindu
Kindu (Kindu-Port-Empain), capital of Maniema province, DR Congo, on the Lualaba River; river-rail interchange with the SNCC line to Katanga, a domestic airport, about 172,000-235,000 residents, and severe transport isolation.
Kinshasa
Kinshasa, formerly Leopoldville, is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a megacity of over 14 million on the Congo River, 515 km inland, facing flooding, service deficits, and the Kin Elenda resilience project.
Kisangani
Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, is a major river city in northeastern DRC, capital of Tshopo province below the Boyoma Falls. Founded by Stanley in 1883, renamed 1966; site of the 1999-2000 Ugandan-Rwandan battles.
Kolwezi
Kolwezi is a mining city in southeastern DR Congo, capital of Lualaba province since 2015. Founded in 1938 by Union Minière du Haut Katanga, it is a world center of copper and cobalt mining, site of the 1978 Battle of Kolwezi, and terminal of the Inga-Shaba power line.
Koutiala
Koutiala is a city and urban commune in southeastern Mali, capital of the Koutiala Cercle and, since 2023, of the Koutiala Region in the Sikasso area. Known as Mali's cotton capital, it is the country's third most populous city with roughly 211,000-214,000 residents.
Kumasi
Kumasi, capital of Ghana's Ashanti Region and historic capital of the Asante Empire, is the country's second largest urban region, known for its large central market, royal heritage, and severe human-driven flood risk.
Kumba
Kumba (K-Town) is a city in the South-West Region of Cameroon, administrative capital of Meme Division and the region's largest city and economic hub, a road junction trading cocoa and palm oil with Nigeria; census 144,268 (2005), UN built-up estimate 329,340 (2025).
Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria, is a coastal megacity built around islands beside the Lagos Lagoon. It is the country's largest city and was its capital until 1991.
Libreville
Libreville, capital of Gabon, founded 1849 by freed slaves from the Brazilian slave ship L'Elizia; grew along the estuary road network, now holds about 967,000 people, roughly half the country.
Likasi
Likasi, formerly Jadotville until 1966, is a city in Haut-Katanga Province in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Copperbelt mining center for copper, cobalt, and zinc founded in 1917.
Little Popo
Little Popo, or Petit Popo, was the European name for Aného in modern Togo, a slave-trading port and the first capital of German Togo from 1886 to 1897.
Lobito
Lobito is an Atlantic port city in Benguela Province, Angola, terminus of the 1,344 km Benguela Railway to the DRC and Zambia. Founded as a city in 1912, population 380,689 (2024 census), now the anchor of the Lobito Corridor mineral export route.
Logone-Birni
Logone-Birni is a town in Cameroon's Far North Region on the Logone River, the historic capital of the southern Kotoko kingdom known as Logone or Lagouane.
Lomé
Lomé is the capital and main seaport of Togo on the Gulf of Guinea, founded under the 1884 German protectorate, capital since 1897, with about 837,000 inhabitants in 2010 and a leading regional transshipment port.
Luanda
Luanda (São Paulo de Loanda) is the capital and largest city of Angola, founded by Paulo Dias de Novais in 1576 on the Atlantic coast; its province counted 8.67 million people, 23.7% of Angola, at the 2024 census.
Lubango (city)
Lubango, formerly Sá da Bandeira, is the capital of Angola's Huíla Province on the Huíla Plateau at about 1,760 m. Founded 1885 by Madeiran settlers, city 1923, renamed 1978; major highland economic and university center.
Lubumbashi
Lubumbashi, founded 1910 as Élisabethville, is the DRC's second-largest city and Haut-Katanga capital, built by Union Minière du Haut Katanga around copper smelting; a mining hub for copper and cobalt with rapid unplanned growth.
Luena
Luena (Vila Luso until 1975) is the capital of Moxico Province, eastern Angola, on the Benguela Railway; founded 1895, city status 1956, site of the 2002 Luena peace memorandum.
Maianga
Maianga, a municipality of Luanda Province, Angola, created 1 January 2025 from the former urban district; Kimbundu name mazanga meaning ponds; area 26.4 km2, administrator Pedro Orlando Afonso Paca.
Maiduguri
Maiduguri (Yerwa), capital of Borno State and largest city of northeastern Nigeria, founded 1907 as the Shehu's seat; trade hub on Lake Chad basin, later epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency and displacement crisis.
Makurdi
Makurdi, capital of Benue State, Nigeria, on the Benue River; state capital since 1976, provincial headquarters 1927, river port and railway town, tropical savanna climate, flood-prone, about 344,000 urban residents (2020).
Malabo
Malabo, former capital of Equatorial Guinea on Bioko island, founded 1827 as Port Clarence, later Santa Isabel; oil port city of about 297,000 that lost capital status to Ciudad de la Paz in January 2026.
Man (city)
Man (city): city in western Côte d'Ivoire, capital of the Montagnes District and Tonkpi Region, nicknamed the city of eighteen mountains; 241,969 residents (2021 census), 329 m elevation, trade and tourism hub near waterfalls and the Dent de Man.
Maradi (city)
Maradi, capital of Maradi Region in south-central Niger, is the country's third largest city and commercial capital, a Hausa border city founded in the early 19th century, rebuilt on a grid after the 1945 flood, and living from trade with Nigeria.
Mbandaka
Mbandaka (formerly Coquilhatville, Équateurville) is the capital of Équateur Province, DR Congo, a river port at the Congo–Ruki confluence near the equator; founded 1883 by Stanley, renamed 1966, population roughly 475,000–557,000 in 2026.
Mbour (city)
Mbour (M'bour), Senegal: main city of the Petite Côte, 80 km south of Dakar, Thiès region, department capital, second port after Dakar; economy led by artisanal fishing, plus tourism, trade, titanium; municipality founded 1926.