Africa (1), Angola to Seychelles: GREEN×EXPO 2027 participating countries

Africa has more countries on the GREEN×EXPO 2027 participation list than any other region: 36, close to half of all participating countries. The list is published by the GREEN×EXPO Association (the public-interest incorporated association organising the 2027 International Horticultural Expo) and Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). As of 2026-09-09, it included 74 countries and five international organisations.

The list is in gojuon (Japanese alphabetical) order. Following that order, we have split Africa’s 36 countries into two halves, and the first 18 run from Angola to Seychelles. The table below gives each country’s official participation contract status and the capital, population and languages from MOFA’s basic data. As of September 2026, 17 of these 18 countries have signed an official participation contract; only Uganda has not. Specific exhibit details have not been announced for any of the 18. Where a row says “Association announced” rather than “Signed on”, the Association has announced the signing but has not made the signing date public.

In an earlier news story, we also covered an announcement that participating countries gathered in Yokohama around TICAD9 (the Tokyo International Conference on African Development) in August 2025. The full list of participating countries is on our feature page, “Participating countries guide”.

Photos of each country are in five regional articles built on MOFA’s data about what each country grows and what Japan imports: four in North Africa, nine in West Africa, seven in Central Africa, seven in the northern part of East Africa and nine in the Indian Ocean islands and Southern Africa.

Country by country (1): Angola to Ghana

Country by country (2): Cameroon to Comoros

Country by country (3): Democratic Republic of the Congo to Seychelles