Historical African place names

Names previously used for regions in Africa

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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.

* Axum \- Eritrea and 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 Pó - 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, Ivory Coast, Niger, Burkina Faso, and Benin
* German East Africa \- Tanzania and Zanzibar
* German South-West Africa \- Namibia
* The Gold Coast \- Ghana
* Guinea
* Grain Coast or Pepper Coast \- Liberia
* Malagasy Republic \- Madagascar
* Mauritania Tingitana-Morocco
* Mdre Bahri -Eritrea
* Monomotapa \- Zimbabwe, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique and parts of Namibia and Botswana
* Middle Congo \- Republic of the Congo
* Nubia \- Sudan and Egypt
* Numidia \- Algeria, Libya and Tunisia
* Nyasaland \- Malawi
* Western Pentapolis \- Libya
* Portuguese Guinea \- Guinea-Bissau
* Rhodesia -

* Northern Rhodesia \- Zambia
* Southern Rhodesia \- Zimbabwe

* (Southern Rhodesia was commonly referred to simply as Rhodesia from 1964 to 1980)

* Rwanda-Urundi \- Rwanda and Burundi
* The Slave Coast \- Benin
* Somaliland \- Somalia
* South-West Africa \- Namibia
* Spanish Sahara \- Western Sahara
* Swaziland \- Eswatini
* French Upper Volta \- Republic of Upper Volta \- Burkina Faso
* Zaire \- Republic of the Congo \- Democratic Republic of the Congo

## See also

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* List of former sovereign states