What is the most populated city in Africa?

16% of the world’s population is concentrated on Lagos??!? What the heck does that mean?

Destino Manifesto, this type of question is always confusing. City boundaries are often important. Mega cities, like Tokyo, often include surrounding areas. 36 million people is sometimes quoted for Tokyo but that includes areas that are definitely not municipal Tokyo. But functionally act as one city. This is very common: Shanghai, Mexico city, ...

SuperPatz3000, its a mistake...16% of world population is concentrated in African continent - that's what he meant...👍👍

Destino Manifesto, Also, this applys to Tokyo, like Greater Tokyo. You are messed up with city proper itself and the metropolitan area (Greater Cairo, Greater Tokyo, etc)

SuperPatz3000, I think that meant Nigeria accounts for 16 percent of the total population increase in Africa.

Destino Manifesto, The current metro area population of Cairo in 2022 is 21,750,000, a 2% increase from 2021. The metro area population of Cairo in 2021 was 21,323,000, a 2.02% increase from 2020. That is just the METRO AREA Cairo, itself proper, only has 9.017 million people. If you include nearby cities near Cairo, simply Greater Cairo, that would be >19 million people City proper/itself is different from metro area

I wonder how current the information is!

Sacred Cow I, there seems to be a general lack of understanding that the country of Egypt is in the continent of Africa.

This question is ALL WRONG! The actual answer is Cairo, with 19.5 million people!