Seychelles is Africa’s least populous sovereign state.
Seychelles is an island country in the western Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar. Its population is roughly 100,000 people, making it the smallest national population in Africa. The country includes more than 100 islands, although most residents live on Mahé, the largest and most developed island.
Victoria, on Mahé, is the capital and a major administrative centre. Seychelles became independent from the United Kingdom in 1976 and later developed a prosperous economy strongly linked to tourism, fishing and services.
Population rankings can change gradually as census estimates are updated, but Seychelles remains clearly below other small African island states such as Comoros and São Tomé and Príncipe. This question concerns population, not area: Seychelles is small geographically too, but its population distinction is separate from its land-size ranking.