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Best African Capitals

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Victoria (Seychelles)1437

The worldwide ranking generated by 2.5k votes

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Victoria (Seychelles)1437

Pretoria (South Africa)1350

Nairobi (Kenya)1348

Port Louis (Mauritius)1333

Praia (Cape Verde)1329

Dodoma (Tanzania)1324

Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)1268

Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)1264

Kampala (Uganda)1261

#10

Libreville (Gabon)1250

#11

Rabat (Morocco)1248

#12

Cairo (Egypt)1238

#13

Porto-Novo (Benin)1231

#14

Windhoek (Namibia)1226

#15

Harare (Zimbabwe)1226

#16

Banjul (Gambia)1223

#17

Accra (Ghana)1221

#18

Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo)1220

#19

Antananarivo (Madagascar)1220

#20

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)1219

#21

Dakar (Senegal)1217

#22

Maputo (Mozambique)1206

#23

Freetown (Sierra Leone)1206

#24

Lomé (Togo)1203

#25

Gaborone (Botswana)1202

#26

Mogadishu (Somalia)1199

#27

Nouakchott (Mauritania)1197

#28

Kigali (Rwanda)1193

#29

Luanda (Angola)1191

#30

Monrovia (Liberia)1186

#31

Niamey (Niger)1178

#32

Khartoum (Sudan)1177

#33

Yaoundé (Cameroon)1175

#34

Conakry (Guinea)1155

#35

Tunis (Tunisia)1150

#36

Moroni (Comoros)1149

#37

Lusaka (Zambia)1146

#38

Yamoussoukro (Ivory Coast)1144

#39

Asmara (Eritrea)1140

#40

Lilongwe (Malawi)1138

#41

Algiers (Algeria)1132

#42

N'Djamena (Chad)1130

#43

Maseru (Lesotho)1127

#44

Juba (South Sudan)1125

#45

Tripoli (Libya)1116

#46

Mbabane (Eswatini)1115

#47

Bissau (Guinea-Bissau)1114

#48

São Tomé (São Tomé and Príncipe)1112

#49

Bangui (Central African Republic)1101

#50

Djibouti (Djibouti)1093

#51

Bamako (Mali)1060

What the community says

Victoria (Seychelles) leads with an ELO of 1,437, ahead of Pretoria (South Africa) (1,350) and Nairobi (Kenya) (1,348). Ranked over 2,463 duels between 51 contenders, last updated October 6, 2026.

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How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.