List of highest points of African countries

Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kenya

Mount Stanley

Ras Dashen

Mount Karisimbi

Toubkal

Mount Cameroon

Thabana Ntlenyana

Mafadi

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10 highest points in Africa

This article lists the highest natural elevation of each sovereign state on the continent of Africa defined physiographically.

Not all points in this list are mountains or hills, some are simply elevations that are not distinguishable as geographical features.

Notes are provided where territorial disputes or inconsistencies affect the listings. Egypt has part of their territory and their high point outside of Africa; their non-Asian high point are listed with a N/A rank entry underneath their continental peak. On the other hand, Spain has part of their territory and their high point inside of Africa.

One partially recognized country with the highest point in Africa is listed and ranked in Italic. For more details see List of states with limited recognition.

Rank	Country	Highest point	Elevation
18	Algeria	Mount Tahat	2,908 m (9,541 ft)
22	Angola	Morro de Môco	2,620 m (8,596 ft)
52	Benin	Mont Sokbaro	658 m (2,159 ft)
40	Botswana	Otse Hill [1]	1,491 m (4,892 ft)
51	Burkina Faso	Tena Kourou	749 m (2,457 ft)
21	Burundi	Southeast of Mount Heha [2]	2,684 m (8,806 ft)
8	Cameroon	Fako on Mount Cameroon [2]	4,040 m (13,255 ft)
20	Cape Verde	Mount Fogo	2,829 m (9,281 ft)
42	Central African Republic	Mont Ngaoui	1,420 m (4,659 ft)
12	Chad	Emi Koussi [2]	3,445 m (11,302 ft)
28	Comoros	Mount Karthala [3]	2,361 m (7,746 ft)
3	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Margherita Peak on Mount Stanley	5,110 m (16,765 ft)
45	Republic of the Congo	Mont Nabeba	1,020 m (3,346 ft)
37	Côte d'Ivoire	Mont Nimba	1,752 m (5,748 ft)
31	Djibouti	Mousa Ali	2,028 m (6,654 ft)
34	Egypt	Gabal Sha'ib El Banat [4]	2,187 m (7,175 ft)
N/A	Egypt	Mount Catherine [4]	2,629 m (8,625 ft)
16	Equatorial Guinea	Pico Basile	3,008 m (9,869 ft)
15	Eritrea	Emba Soira	3,018 m (9,902 ft)
36	Eswatini	Emlembe	1,862 m (6,109 ft)
5	Ethiopia	Ras Dashen [2]	4,550 m (14,928 ft)
44	Gabon	Mont Bengoué [5]	1,070 m (3,510 ft)
55	Gambia	Red Rock/unnamed hill [6] [7]	53 m (174 ft)
49	Ghana	Mount Afadja [8]	885 m (2,904 ft)
38	Guinea	Mont Nimba	1,752 m (5,748 ft)
54	Guinea-Bissau	Monte Torin	262 m (860 ft)
2	Kenya	Batian on Mount Kenya	5,199 m (17,057 ft)
10	Lesotho	Thabana Ntlenyana	3,482 m (11,424 ft)
41	Liberia	Mount Wuteve [2]	1,440 m (4,724 ft)
30	Libya	Bikku Bitti	2,267 m (7,438 ft)
19	Madagascar	Maromokotro	2,876 m (9,436 ft)
17	Malawi	Sapitwa (Mulanje Massif)	3,002 m (9,849 ft)
43	Mali	Hombori Tondo	1,155 m (3,789 ft)
47	Mauritania	Kediet ej Jill	915 m (3,002 ft)
50	Mauritius	Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire	828 m (2,717 ft)
7	Morocco	Jbel Toubkal	4,165 m (13,665 ft)
26	Mozambique	Monte Binga	2,436 m (7,992 ft)
23	Namibia	Königstein	2,606 m (8,550 ft)
33	Niger	Mont Idoukal-n-Taghès	2,022 m (6,634 ft)
27	Nigeria	Chappal Waddi	2,419 m (7,936 ft)
6	Rwanda	Mount Karisimbi	4,507 m (14,787 ft)
32	São Tomé and Príncipe	Pico de São Tomé	2,024 m (6,640 ft)
53	Senegal	Baunez ridge near Nepen Diakha	648 m (2,126 ft)
48	Seychelles	Morne Seychellois [9]	905 m (2,969 ft)
35	Sierra Leone	Mount Bintumani (Loma Mansa)	1,948 m (6,391 ft)
25	Somalia	Shimbiris [10]	2,460 m (8,071 ft)
11	South Africa	Mafadi	3,450 m (11,319 ft)
13	South Sudan	Kinyeti	3,187 m (10,456 ft)
14	Sudan	Deriba Caldera	3,042 m (9,980 ft)
9	Spain	Teide	3,718 m (12,198 ft)
1	Tanzania	Mount Kilimanjaro [11]	5,892 m (19,331 ft)
46	Togo	Mont Agou	986 m (3,235 ft)
39	Tunisia	Jebel ech Chambi	1,544 m (5,066 ft)
4	Uganda	Margherita Peak on Mount Stanley	5,110 m (16,765 ft)
N/A	Western Sahara	Tikhzoukhane	605 m (1,985 ft)
29	Zambia	Unnamed location in Mafinga Hills	2,329 m (7,641 ft)
24	Zimbabwe	Mount Nyangani	2,592 m (8,504 ft)

See also

• List of elevation extremes by country
  • List of highest points of Asian countries
  • List of highest points of European countries
  • List of highest points of North American countries
  • List of highest points of Oceanian countries
  • List of highest points of South American countries

References

• CIA World Factbook 2006 (items marked * have been amended, see for supporting documentation). Both this list and the CIA list may contain further errors. Despite the claim by the CIA that their list was updated in July 2006, none of the errors listed on the talk page have been corrected.
• World Tops and Bottoms, by Grant Hutchison, 1996, TACit Press, ISBN   0-9522680-4-3, and subsequent research by the same author, in collaboration with field research by Ginge Fullen.
• Data supplied by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
• Information about specific items on talk page

Notes

1. Monalanong Hill is a mountain often considered the highest point of Botswana, with a questioned altitude of 1,494 metres (4,900 feet). This datum comes from the SRTM database just as the 1,491 m for Otse. The error range of these data is significantly higher (approximately 15 m), but a British explorer did a GPS reading on the top of both hills, and his measurement showed Otse slightly higher.
2. Some authorities give other elevations for these national high points. For more information, see the appropriate summit pages.
3. Listed as "Le Kartala" on Peaklist.org Retrieved 27 September 2011
4. Gabal Sha'ib El Banat is the highest peak in the African part of Egypt, while the highest peak of the country is Mount Catherine, located in the Asian part of Egypt.
5. Claims that Mont Iboundji is the highest point and more than 1500 metres high are not supported by SRTM data.
6. "The Gambia Maps & Facts". WorldAtlas. 2021-02-24. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
7. Times, The Alkamba (2022-12-28). "The Saga of Red Rock: Discovering The Tallest Hill In The Gambia?". The Alkamba Times. Retrieved 2024-10-18.
8. "Mount Afadjoto, Ghana". Peakbagger.com. 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
9. "Morne Seychellois" on Peakbagger.com Retrieved 2 October 2011
10. Shimbiris is also the highest point in Somaliland
11. Highest point in Africa.