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Volcanoes in Africa
80 volcanoes in Africa, spread across 18 countries. The best known is Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The 80 best known are below; the rest are on the map.
- In Africa
- 80
- Countries
- 18
- Share of world
- 5%
- Little known
- 32 of 80
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17.Mount Bisoke
Nature · Notable
A volcano located on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda
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22.Marion Island
Nature · Notable
Uninhabited, inhospitable sub-Antarctic volcano island owned by South Africa since 1947
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76.Cova
Nature · Hidden gem
Volcanic crater Cova in Santo Antão(Cape Verde) is 1166 m low and 1500 m high woth having diameter about 1 Km considered as one of the oldest Craters still fou…
Volcanoes in Africa, by country
Every country here with at least one. Those with a page of their own link through.
- Ethiopia15
- Cameroon11
- Tanzania11
- Kenya7
- Chad5
- Democratic Republic of the Congo5
- Cape Verde4
- Madagascar4
- Uganda4
- Egypt2
- Equatorial Guinea2
- Morocco2
- Rwanda2
- South Africa2
- Comoros1
- Djibouti1
- São Tomé and Príncipe1
- Sudan1
Volcanoes elsewhere
Questions about this page
What are the best known volcanoes in Africa?
Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania leads the list. Mountain massif in Kilimanjaro National Park in Tanzania.
Which country in Africa has the most?
Ethiopia (15), Cameroon (11) and Tanzania (11). That ranks how much Wikidata records, not what exists on the ground.
How much of the world is that?
80 of the 1,632 volcanoes on this atlas, so 5%. The rest are on the worldwide page.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.