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What about Lilongwe and Blantyre Malawi?

A call for review of List of metropolitan areas in Africa by population article.

It is surprising for a city like Zaria with a city population of just over 408 000 to be among the List of metropolitan areas in Africa by population when Jos with a city population of 900 000 and Enugu-722 664 inhabitants are nowhere on the page.Why Zaria before these cities. Thanks.Earlymen (talk) 04;54,22 October 2010 (UTC)

Mombasa is also notably absent, despite having 1,300,000 residents. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.89.46.249 (talk) 23:53, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Even ogbomosho is included King James Ugochukwu (talk) 16:01, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

-I hope I’m posting this question in the right place. Why is there a list of largest cities proper for every populated continent except Africa? At the moment, the best list on that subject is in the German Wikipedia, which this article links to. I’ll assume that is not the ideal solution. I’m obviously not a member (yet), but I feel like this question is worthy of discussion. 199.188.120.219 (talk) 18:56, 27 October 2017 (UTC) Will Drake[reply]

Gross underestimation of Addis Ababa population

The entry reports a since revised population figure derived from the last official census. The census presents a very controversial figure whose announcement had a political value in Ethiopia. Previous estimates put on wiki evaluate the town population at four milion, simple inferences from Google Earth imagery suggest it is closer to seven million. See the discussion of the Addis Ababa entry. Marcoetio (talk) 10:49, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cairo vs. Lagos & general lack of comparability

The source that is used to declare the population, say Lagos actually has a population of 13,123,000 (not 17 million as the Wikipedia listing says). The source also ranks Cairo higher at 18 million. I think the intro to this article should include a definition of "administrative areas", and also dig into the UN and other report and figure out what the differences between measurement are. That would bring this up a notch. However, that's a lot of work, and I think for now, there needs to be some kind of quick review of this list. Skiingxmoose (talk) 04:48, 27 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

unsure

What about benin,i feel kano and portharcourt were underated King James Ugochukwu (talk) 16:00, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move 21 January 2018

List of metropolitan areas in Africa → List of urban agglomerations in Africa – The figures cited generally refer to urban agglomerations. Batternut (talk) 15:24, 21 January 2018 (UTC) -Relisting –Ammarpad (talk) 14:53, 29 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Since there have been no objections in two weeks, this appears to be uncontroversial; moved as requested. Dekimasuよ! 02:00, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done, 5 February 2018‎. Batternut (talk) 12:45, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Units

Unless I’m looking at it wrong, I see no units at all in the table! Am I right? If so I’ll try to fix it IllQuill (talk) 22:36, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Numbers look wrong and cannot find sources

I was surprised to see 7M inhabitants for a city such as Mbuji-Mayi. When looking at google satellite, this is just not possible. There are also many other population counts that look wrong and don't fit with official censuses or other population estimate (Cape Town, Dakar, etc.). According to page, sources are UN 2016 and citypopulation.de, but I could not find those numbers in any of them. Indeed, for Dakar, the last UN estimates states 2.7M, much less than the 10M reported on the page. Same for Cape Town (4M vs 9M) and Mbuji-Mayi (2M vs 7M). --2001:628:21F0:52:35FB:DDF5:4333:9291 (talk) 07:46, 4 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Someone added inflated numbers. Sjö (talk) 17:38, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

FIxed. Corrected the numbers for Algiers that were inflated. I made them consistent with the sources. Fridooo (talk) 08:22, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

2018 Updates

The UN column is now 6 years out of date, and perhaps has been messed with anyway. The 2018 UN report was released some time in 2019, and should probably be added in if someone has the patience to add/replace. 72.68.201.6 (talk) 01:56, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip, I updated the UN data. Shepherd Niles (talk) 08:23, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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