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Lists of cities in Africa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ6609669 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of lists of cities in Africa.

Countries

Dependencies and other territories

Regions

List of cities in East Africa

See also

Lists of cities

Lists of cities by country

List of cities in Africa by population

Urbanization in Africa

Cities portal

Africa portal

External links

"Cities and Towns". Africa Focus. USA: University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.

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“Lists of cities in Africa” enters the record as wikimedia list article. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lists, cities and Africa can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 59-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lists, cities and Africa.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6609669. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lists of cities in Africa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.