African Capitals

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Africa's capital map carries some quirks that surprise even regular geography players. Some countries quietly moved their seat of government in living memory; others run multiple capitals at once, with different branches of government in different cities. A handful of capitals share their name with the country itself. And the largest, most well-known city isn't always the political one — the capital is sometimes a planned, purpose-built city in the interior, far from the coastal commercial center. Continent-wide, the capitals cluster by region — coastal West Africa, the Mediterranean north, the Horn, the Great Lakes, the Indian Ocean islands, and the Southern Cone. North African capitals share Arab and Islamic naming conventions; the East African highlands feature several capitals at altitude; the West African coast strings capitals like beads from Senegal down to Cameroon. The Indian Ocean island states — Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Seychelles — each have a single port-city capital. Pick a mode and start. Type-in is the deep-end recall mode; multiple choice is the warm-up; tile select sorts African capitals from other continents under the clock; match pairs each capital to its country across regional rounds. Every mode counts toward your topic mastery.