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Names previously used for regions in Africa
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.
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Axum -
Eritrea and
Ethiopia
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Africa (province) -
Tunisia
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Barbary Coast -
Algeria
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Bechuanaland -
Botswana
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Belgian Congo -
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Carthage -
Tunisia
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Central African Empire -
Central African Republic
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Congo Free State -
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Dahomey -
Benin
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Equatoria -
Sudan and
Uganda
- Fernando Pó -
Bioko
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French Congo -
Gabon and
Republic of the Congo
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French Equatorial Africa -
Chad,
Central African Republic,
Gabon,
Republic of the Congo
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French Sudan -
Mali
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French West Africa - Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Benin
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German East Africa -
Tanzania and
Zanzibar
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German South-West Africa -
Namibia
- The
Gold Coast -
Ghana
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Guinea
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Grain Coast or
Pepper Coast -
Liberia
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Malagasy Republic -
Madagascar
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Mauritania Tingitana-
Morocco
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Mdre Bahri -
Eritrea
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Monomotapa - Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique and parts of Namibia and Botswana
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Middle Congo -
Republic of the Congo
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Nubia -
Sudan and
Egypt
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Numidia -
Algeria,
Libya and
Tunisia
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Nyasaland -
Malawi
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Western Pentapolis -
Libya
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Portuguese Guinea -
Guinea-Bissau
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Rhodesia -
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- (Southern Rhodesia was commonly referred to simply as Rhodesia from 1964 to 1980)
See also