african names

african names

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Portrait of the African Fish Eagle

This is a list of historical African place names . The names on the left are linked to the corresponding subregion(s) from History of Africa.

  • Abyssinia - Ethiopia
  • Africa (province) - Tunisia
  • Barbary Coast - Algeria
  • Bechuanaland - Botswana
  • Belgian Congo - Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Carthage - Tunisia
  • Central African Empire - Central African Republic
  • Congo Free State - Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Dahomey - Benin
  • Equatoria - Sudan and Uganda
  • Fernando Poo - Bioko
  • French Congo - Gabon and Republic of the Congo
  • French Equatorial Africa - Chad, Central African Republic, Gabon, Republic of the Congo
  • French Sudan - Mali
  • French West Africa - Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Benin
  • German East Africa - Tanzania
  • German South West Africa - Namibia
  • The Gold Coast - Ghana
  • Guinea
  • Malagasy Republic - Madagascar
  • Monomotapa -
  • Middle Congo - Republic of the Congo
  • Nubia - Sudan and Egypt
  • Nyasaland - Malawi
  • Portuguese Guinea - Guinea-Bissau
  • Rhodesia - Zimbabwe and Zambia
  • The Slave Coast - Benin
  • South-West Africa - Namibia
  • Spanish Sahara - Western Sahara
  • Upper Volta - Burkina Faso
  • Zaire - Democratic Republic of the Congo

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