Afrinia: African country used in World Bank training exercises[2][3]
Afromacoland: African country in the novel Chief the Honourable Minister by
T. M. Aluko
Azania: African country from
Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief but with earlier origins in Roman histories. Azania is also a fictional country in the Marvel comics.
Abuddin: A Middle East country in the series
Tyrant
Aburĩria, Free Republic of: African country ruled by a dictator known only as the "Ruler" in the novel Wizard of the Crow by Kenyan author,
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.[4]
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Babar's Kingdom: from children's book, a country of intelligent bipedal elephants.
Bahari: from the CBS television series Scorpion, a small north African nation under the brutal rule of a dictatorship. The nation is a former Nazi German colony and there are several Nazi German military bases located in the deserts of the country.
Balaika : A fictional Central African country in the 2014 BBC Radio 4 Play "When The Laughter Stops", written by Sibusiso Mamba, co-created with Daliso Chaponda and with additional material by Ava Vidal. In the play two stand-up comedians get into trouble in a country that is in the process of deciding whether homosexuality should be a capital offence.
Bangalla: from The Phantom comic strip. The Phantom's base lies in the deep woods of this central African nation.
Bapetikosweti: The "homeland" state in which the South African satirist
Pieter-Dirk Uys (under the guise of his drag character, Evita Bezuidenhout) was the South African ambassador.
Birani: African nation featured in the film The Gods Must Be Crazy. Located near Namibia and Angola. Has a Banana Forest at a place called Dumgase.
Bialya (Currently Greater Bialya): an evil nation in the show Young Justice, led by a mind controlling female by the name of
Queen Bee. She is part of The Light, a group of supervillains.
Bocamo: a gold-producing West African state from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Kitara". Renowned as a particularly brutal practitioner of apartheid.
Bulmeria: an African country mentioned in the webcomic, It's Walky!
Bulungi: A country located south of
Côte d'Ivoire and southeast of
Liberia featured in an article by satirical news group The Onion. In the article, the United States' "ambassador" to Bulungi is accused of making the country up. Bulungi's capital city is Yabba-Dabba.
Buranda: African country in the BBC comedy series Yes Minister, formerly known as "British Equatorial Africa"
Burunda: Fictional country located in Southern Africa. From the Marvel comics, it is not to be confused with Burundi.
Canaan: African nation bordering Wakanda from the Marvel universe.
Claw Island: African nation occupying the island of
Madagascar as portrayed in a video by The Onion about the United States sending US$3 billion worth of aid to
Andorra.
North Darrar: A country in the Horn of Africa based on
Eritrea in the novel Borderlines by Michela Wrong. The capital city is Lira. The country neighbours the Federal Republic of Darrar and has fought a war against it over a border dispute based on the
Eritrean–Ethiopian War.[7][8]
Federal Republic of South Africa: A South African state mentioned in the 1991 novel Vortex, by Larry Bond and Patrick Larkin. It is the successor state to the apartheid-era "Republic of South Africa" and is established after a civil war takes place in South Africa over the fate of apartheid in the early 1990s; its capital is Johannesburg after having been moved there from Pretoria due to the latter city's negative association with the apartheid regime and the subsequent civil war.
G
Genosha: an island nation which was established as a mutant homeland in
Marvel Comics
Ghalea: a small African nation whose pro-Western government is key to stability in the area, from the Mission: Impossible episode "The Money Machine"
Ghudaza: Small fictional country bordering
Wakanda. From the Marvel Comics.
Kalya: West African country in the novel The Zinzin Road by
Fletcher Knebel. Capital city: Ft. Paul.
Kamanga: Southern African country between
Namibia and
Mozambique in the novel Tenth Man Down by
Chris Ryan. Ruled from the poverty-stricken capital of Mulongwe, Kamanga is the very model of post-colonial corruption, nepotism, and greed. The territory, once a British possession, is now suffering from an
AIDS epidemic, while poaching goes unchecked during a brutal civil war. Uranium, diamonds, and
bauxite are key resources, although they remain in the hands of the
European-descended elite. Kamanga uses the Kwacha as its national currency. This "Kwacha" is a fictional currency, but it has the same name as the
Malawian kwacha and the
Zambian kwacha.
Kambezi: Southern African country occurring in several MacGyver episodes, located somewhere near
Zimbabwe and home to a population of
black rhinos, a protected species approaching rapid extinction thanks to South African poachers. Kambezi is also in fact a military dictatorship, and relies heavily on the smuggling of
dagga. Kambezi was later used in season 3 of Blindspot, but was a Central African monarchy at war with its neighbor and seeking control of a pipeline.
Kenyopia: belligerent African nation in Totally Spies! TV series attempting to conquer its fictional neighbor Lyrobia (see below) with its King Milanalwayskumar
Kukuanaland: African country in the novel King Solomon's Mines (1885) by H. Rider Haggard
Kush: African country from
John Updike's 1978 novel The Coup
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Ligeria: African home of the agent Benjamin N’udu in the Canadian TV series InSecurity.
Logosia: African country from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "The Crane".
Lombuanda: an independent white-supremacist African country on the
Gulf of Guinea in the Mission: Impossible episode "The Diamond". Underdeveloped and densely forested, Lombuanda is ruled by French-speaking settlers who keep two million black citizens starved and without 'schools, hospitals, or any voice in government'. The title of prime minister is held by Hendrik Durvard, a despotic white Lombuandan who plans to use a 27,000-carat diamond to finance his seizure of tribal reserves.
Lyrobia: African nation, ruled by Queen Tassara, in French/Canadian animated TV series Totally Spies! containing desert and rain forest environments, with an Arabic-inspired culture.
Lamumba: A small, prospering county, published in DC Comics, and was first seen in Doom Patrol #100, "The Fantastic Origin Of The
Beast Boy".
Matobo: a state based on Zimbabwe, from the 2005 film The Interpreter. "Matobo" is also used briefly in 24: Redemption in a scene where an international videoconference takes place and on
24 (season 7), where Ule Matobo (fictional) is a former president of
Sangala, the fiction African nation. The nation was also used as the setting for the Swedish film Morgan Pålsson - världsreporter, but spelled with an accent, Matóbo.
Mumbambu: African nation occupying the Central and East region as portrayed in a video by The Onion about the United States sending US$3 billion worth of aid to
Andorra as it was believed to be south of Mumbambu in Africa, not Europe.[10]
Murkatesh: Country bordering Algeria and Nigeria. From the Marvel Comics.
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Nadua: Fictional country bordered by
Namibia all around. From the Marvel Comics.
Nambia: African country usually said as a mispronunciation of Namibia erroneously stated likely due to the prevalence of nations with similar name such as Gambia and Zambia.[11]
Nambutu: a fictional African nation in the 2006 film Casino Royale.
Naruba: a fictional West African country in Designated Survivor. It is located in between
Mali,
Niger,
Nigeria,
Benin and
Burkina Faso. Its capital city is Soji. It is mentioned to be one of the poorest nations on the planet, with conflicts arising from warlords such as Atsu Kalame.
Nayak: imaginary West African country in the 2004 film La Nuit de la vérité (Night of Truth)
Neranga: "new African country" featured in a
Rumpole story called "Rumpole and the Golden Thread" by
John Mortimer
New Zanzibar: featured in The Simpsons episode "
Simpson Safari", this country only existed for a few moments between
Tanzania and
Pepsi Presents New Zanzibar.
Pepsi Presents New Zanzibar: featured in The Simpsons episode "
Simpson Safari", this country came into being after civil war in
Tanzania created the country New Zanzibar, which moments later was purchased by
Pepsi.
Podoso: a fictional Central African country mentioned in the Turkish television series Valley of the Wolves.
Pride Lands: a fictional East African country where lions rule the kingdom. Pride Rock, a colossal rock formation, serves as the residence of the king and his pride, based on the real-life
Tanzania in Disney's The Lion King.
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Qitzikwaka: a North African country made up as an
April Fools joke by Geography YouTuber
Geography Now.
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Republic of West Africa: Highlighted in the episode 6 of season 1 of Madam Secretary ("The Call"), the Republic of West Africa is lodged in between Gabon and Cameroon (around the area of Equatorial Guinea) and is said to be ruled by a military junta following a coup. In the context of the episode, the ruling council of the RWA is aiming to commit ethnic cleansing against the Beko people, marching on the city of "St. Juste", one of the Beko peoples' primary population centres. The North and Interior of the RWA are said to be ruled by warlords armed with "RPGs and Machine Guns". One of the official languages of the RWA is French, although some of the Beko people are noted to speak Igbo. It is also implied that a heavy number of the Beko people within the RWA follow the Christian faith, primarily Roman Catholicism.
Rudyarda: Small African nation north of Wakanda. Featured in the Marvel Comics.
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Sahelise Republic: African country mentioned in The West Wing, episode "In This White House"
Sangala: A nation from 24: Redemption and
24 (season 7) where
Jack Bauer comes to after running away from his life. A
coup d'état takes place, with rebels using brainwashed children as soldiers. The nation is later invaded by the US in season 7.
Seanfrika: A country from the movie Sean Banan inuti Seanfrika founded by the Iranian-Swedish comedian
Sean Banan to escape the cold Swedish winters.
Sotho: a kingdom in Africa mentioned in a 1997 episode of the German TV series Küstenwache (note: the name and the royalist form of government seem to refer to the real existing Kingdom of
Lesotho – however, in the episode, the King of Sotho comes to Germany to order ships for his coastguard, which would not make any sense for the real Lesotho, since the country is
landlocked).
Suaoriland: a country in East Africa briefly mentioned in
Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History.
Transvalia: not actually a state in its own right, but rather a parody of
Orania.
Leon Schuster made a comedy film called Sweet 'n Short (1991), which was a parody of life in the New South Africa. The film was made in 1990 shortly after
Nelson Mandela was released from prison - many of the fictional events portrayed therein actually came to pass in post-apartheid South Africa.
Trucial Abysmia: East African country in the
G.I. Joe comics.
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Ujanka: Fictional country located near
Wakanda and
Lake Turkana. From the Marvel comics.
Umbutu, National Republic of: A post invasion nation in Independence Day: Resurgence that during the 1996 war was the one place where the Harvesters landed.
United Mitanni Commonwealth: A fictional African country in
Lee Correy's science fiction novel Manna.
United States of Southern Africa (USSA): A country born out of the Republic of South Africa in 2061: Odyssey Three.
Apartheid in South Africa ends some time in the late 2010s or early 2020s, followed by a mass exodus of Afrikaners and capital flight out of the country towards Europe. A terrorist insurgency of Afrikaners called "The Bund" conducts attacks against the USSA.[12]
United States of Southern Africa: A country born out of the Republic of South Africa in World War Z
Upper Gorm: Fictional African country in the 1980 comedy film First Family.
UAC: An unnamed African country depicted in the video game Far Cry 2, can also be presumed to be named Seko.
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Wadiya: Country ruled by the protagonist in the 2012 film
The Dictator. Located by the
Red Sea.
West Angola: a fictional African country referred to in Scandal.
West African Union: a fictional merger of
Liberia and
Sierra Leone in Seafighter a 1999 novel by
James H. Cobb. Ruled by Premier-General Obe Belewa.[13]
West Monrassa: Central African country in an episode of Spooks. Run by President Gabriel Sakoa, a corrupt leader planning a genocide against the people in the north of the country.
Zembala: African country in the 1978 film The Wild Geese
Zinariya: an African country famous for its copper mines, ruled by a dictator, General Bindiga, in
A. N. Wilson's My Name Is Legion (2004)
Zulabwe: an African country where the squad from popular TV serial, The A-Team (by
Stephen J. Cannell and
Frank Lupo (1983) found themselves in one of the episodes.