how many countries are there within the continent of africa?

[yelllowfox]

i have no idea and would love a list of same. difficult i know.

[grasscarp]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa

[factor-fiction]

Is this a quiz?
Anyway, you can get lists on Wikipedia or other sites via Google because I remember looking it up once

[Nibble]

Try wikipedia.... http://en.wikipedia.o...territories_in_Africa

[Zacs-Master]

This info is 3 years old but I still hink it's accurate

57 as below
Algeria
Angola
B
[+] Benin
[+] Botswana
[+] Burkina Faso
[+] Burundi
C
[+] Cameroon
[+] Cape Verde
[+] Central African Republic
[+] Chad
[+] Comoros
[+] Côte d'Ivoire
D
[+] Democratic Republic of the Congo
[+] Djibouti
E
[+] Egypt
[+] Equatorial Guinea
[+] Eritrea
[+] Ethiopia
G
[+] Gabon
[+] The Gambia
[+] Ghana
[+] Guinea
[+] Guinea-Bissau
K
[+] Kenya
L
[+] Lesotho
[+] Liberia
[+] Libya
M
[+] Madagascar
[+] Malawi
[+] Mali
[+] Mauritania
[+] Mauritius
[+] Morocco
[+] Mozambique
N
[+] Namibia
[+] Niger
[+] Nigeria
[+] Republic of the Congo
[+] Rwanda
S
[+] Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
[+] São Tomé and Príncipe
[+] Senegal
[+] Seychelles
[+] Sierra Leone
[+] Somalia
[+] South Africa
[+] Sudan
[+] Swaziland
T
[+] Tanzania
[+] Togo
[+] Tunisia
U
[+] Uganda
W
[+] Western Sahara
Z
[+] Zambia
[+] Zimbabwe

[Baldric]

Not difficult at all

Wikipedia has some great sites

I googled , Africa/countries/list, it worked well,

[grasscarp]

and I have been to Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt (lived there), Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa and Zambia. I know you didnt ask, but I just looked down the list out of curiousity.

[pa___ul3]

Zacs master, it'd be one more than that though now wouldn't it with South Sudan?

[Zacs-Master]

58.

[MarkRae]

Western Sahara is a disputed territory and I can't remember whether it's actually considered a country in its own right...

[Zacs-Master]

57 and a half.