How many African countries can you name?

Literally from memory, without googling or looking at a map of any kind (even a blank one):


Morocco


Western Sahara


Algeria


Tunisia


Libya


Egypt


Sudan


Chad


Niger


Mali


Mauritania


Guinea


Guinea-Bissau


Equatorial Guinea


Gabon


The Gambia


Liberia


Ghana


Burkina Faso


Cote D'Ivoire


Togo


Benin


Cameroon


Nigeria


Central African Republic


Ethiopia


Eritrea


Djibouti


Somalia


Uganda


Rwanda


Burundi


Malawi


Congo (Democratic Republic of)


Congo (Republic of)


Sao Tome %26amp; Principe


Tanzania


Kenya


Mozambique


Zambia


Zimbabwe


Angola


South Africa


Lesotho


Swaziland (for a total of 44 + 1 territory (Western Sahara))





(Countries that are often grouped with Africa but aren't always considered part of the continent:


Madagascar


Comoros


Seychelles (for a total of 47 + 1 territory)

How many African countries can you name?
Most the above, though I'd spell correctly:





Morocco


Cameroon


Mozambique


Madagascar


Malawi


Mali


(I'm spotting a problem with 'M's ;-)


Somalia


Mauritania


Namibia


Zambia


Zimbabwe





In English, "Ivory Coast" is more commonly used than "Cote d'Ivoire", possibly because doing circumflexes is hard on EN keyboards :-)





Congo-Kinshasa is normally called the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, or just Congo. Congo-Brazzaville is so called to distinguish it from its larger neighbour. Similar with the Guinea(-Conakry) %26amp; Guinea-Bissau





Western Sahara is not (as yet) a country, but a disputed territory. It was a Spanish colony, but in 1975 Spain pulled out. It was invaded by Morocco and Mauritania, both resisted by the local Polisario fighters. They pushed out Mauritania, but not Morocco. At present there is a stalled peace process to decide its future status. Most significantly, it's not recognised as being part of Morocco or any other nation.





There are also two self-proclaimed, but still unrecognised, countries in East Africa: Somaliland and Puntland. They seceded from Somalia when its central government broke down.





Comoros, Seychelles and Mauritius are in the Indian Ocean, so are arguably not part of Africa. However, so is Madagascar, which tends to regard itself as African. AFAIK all are members of the African Union. Cape Verde and Sao Tome %26amp; Principe, off West Africa, regard themselves as African.





North Africa also contains some small Spanish territories, such as Ceuta and Melilla.





All from memory!











Edit:


OK, the above post disappeared. Here goes:


South Africa


Swaziland


Lesotho


Zimbabwe


Zambia


Malawi


Botswana


Namibia


Mozambique


Tanzania


DRC (Congo-Kinshasa)


Angola


Congo-Brazzaville


Gabon


Equatorial Guinea


Sao Tome %26amp; Principe


Central African Republic


Uganda


Rwanda


Burundi


Kenya


Somalia


Ethiopia


Eritrea


Sudan


Cameroon


Nigeria


Togo


Benin


Ghana


Ivory Coast


Burkina Faso


Liberia


Sierra Leone


Guinea-Conakry


Guinea-Bissau


Senegal


Gambia


Mali


Niger


Mauritania


(Western Sahara - disputed)


Morocco


Algeria


Tunisia


Libya


Egypt


Madagascar


Comoros


Mauritius


Seychelles





Have I missed any?





Edit 2:


hey it's back...





Edit 3:


I left out Djibouti, and forgot to mention that one of the Comoros islands, Mayotte, is a French territory.
Reply:Nigeria


Ethiopia


Egypt


Congo-Kinshasa


South Africa


Tanzania


Sudan


Kenya


orocco


Algeria


Uganda


Ghana


ozabique


adagascar


Caeroon


C么te d'Ivoire


Angola


Burkina Faso


alawi


Niger


Senegal


Zibabwe


ali


Zabia


Tunisia


Guinea


Rwanda


Chad


Soalia


Burundi


Benin


Sierra Leone


Libya


Togo


Eritrea


Central African Republic


Congo-Brazzaville


auritania


Liberia


Lesotho


Naibia


Botswana


Gabia


Guinea-Bissau


Gabon


auritius


Swaziland


Cooros


Equatorial Guinea


Djibouti


Cape Verde


Western Sahara (SADR)


S茫o To茅 and Pr铆ncipe


Seychelles