Historical African place names explained

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

• List of former sovereign states