Africa (2), Equatorial Guinea to Lesotho: GREEN×EXPO 2027 participating countries

On the list of countries that have announced participation in GREEN×EXPO 2027, Africa is the largest region, with 36 countries. In the list’s gojuon (Japanese alphabetical) order, the second 18 run from Equatorial Guinea to Lesotho. The first 18 (Angola to Seychelles) are covered in a separate article.

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 full list is on our feature page, “Participating countries guide”.

As of September 2026, 15 of these 18 countries have signed an official participation contract; Equatorial Guinea, Somalia and Libya have not. Libya was newly added in the 2026-09-09 update of the GREEN×EXPO Association’s list. Specific exhibit details have not been announced for any of the 18. The table below gives each country’s official participation contract status and the capital, population and languages from MOFA’s basic data. Two of them are far apart in size: Equatorial Guinea covers 28,051 km² (about 1.5 times Shikoku), South Sudan 640,000 km² (about 1.7 times Japan).

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): Equatorial Guinea to Burundi

Country by country (2): Benin to South Sudan

Country by country (3): Mauritania to Lesotho