Basin

Senegal

Niger

Lake Chad

Nile

Rift

Sheb-Juba

Congo/Zaire

Zambezi

Okavango

Limpopo

Orange

South. Int.

North. Int.

Med. Coast

N.W. Coast

W. Coast

W.C. Coast

S.W. Coast

S.A. Coast

I.O. Coast

E.C. Coast

N.E. Coast

Madagascar

Islands

Area of country

As % of Africa

Country

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Algeria

193449

93451

1944795

133327

16718

2381740

7.86%

Angola

285395

235423

166963

53118

7150

498651

1246700

4.12%

Benin

46384

66236

112620

0.37%

Botswana

12401

49431

80118

71000

368780

581730

1.92%

Burkina Faso

76621

197379

274000

0.90%

Burundi

13260

14574

27834

0.09%

Cameroon

89249

50775

96395

239021

475440

1.57%

Cape Verde

4030

4030

0.01%

Centr. Afr. Rep.

219410

403570

622980

2.06%

Chad

20339

1046196

217465

1284000

4.24%

Comoros

1861

1861

0.01%

Congo

246977

95023

342000

1.13%

Côte d'Ivoire

23770

298692

322462

1.06%

Djibouti

12800

10400

23200

0.08%

Egypt

326751

520881

65568

88250

1001450

3.31%

Equat. Guinea

28050

28050

0.09%

Eritrea

24921

8605

88364

121890

0.40%

Ethiopia

365117

310981

373739

50173

1100010

3.63%

Gabon

267670

267670

0.88%

Gambia

11300

11300

0.04%

Ghana

238540

238540

0.79%

Guinea

29475

96880

119502

245857

0.81%

Guinea Bissau

36120

36120

0.12%

Kenya

46229

130452

210226

193463

580370

1.92%

Lesotho

30350

30350

0.10%

Liberia

97750

97750

0.32%

Libya

1472372

287168

1759540

5.81%

Madagascar

587040

587040

1.94%

Malawi

108360

10120

118480

0.39%

Mali

139098

578850

512746

9496

1240190

4.09%

Mauritania

247742

578393

204385

1025520

3.39%

Mauritius

2040

2040

0.01%

Mor. + W.Sah.

154682

108300

449518

712500

2.35%

Mozambique

162004

84981

185726

368879

801590

2.65%

Namibia

17426

106798

219249

199718

17549

264160

824900

2.72%

Niger

564211

691473

11316

1267000

4.18%

Nigeria

584193

179282

101802

58493

923770

3.05%

Rwanda

19876

6464

26340

0.09%

Sao Tome & Pr.

960

960

0.00%

Senegal

71866

124854

196720

0.65%

Seychelles

455

455

0.00%

Sierra Leone

71740

71740

0.24%

Somalia

226462

19133

392065

637660

2.11%

South Africa

185298

575769

101325

358648

1221040

4.03%

Sudan

101048

1978506

16441

313365

96450

2505810

8.27%

Swaziland

17364

17364

0.06%

Tanzania

84200

153800

244593

27840

434657

945090

3.12%

Togo

56785

56785

0.19%

Tunisia

78448

85162

163610

0.54%

Uganda

231366

4514

235880

0.78%

Zaire

22143

2313350

9367

2344860

7.74%

Zambia

177735

574875

752610

2.48%

Zimbabwe

213036

51467

24210

102047

390760

1.29%

Area of basin

483181

2273946

2381635

3112369

637593

810427

3789053

1351365

323192

401864

896368

645826

5804463

679525

670621

1430196

704774

516200

365485

663785

1026252

725702

587040

9346

30290208

100.00%

As % of Africa

1.60%

7.51%

7.86%

10.28%

2.10%

2.68%

12.51%

4.46%

1.07%

1.33%

2.96%

2.13%

19.16%

2.24%

2.21%

4.72%

2.33%

1.70%

1.21%

2.19%

3.39%

2.40%

1.94%

0.03%

100.00%