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 pÃ³ - 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, cÃ´te d'ivoire, 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 * monomotapa - * 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 * french upper volta - republic of upper volta - burkina faso * zaire - republic of the congo - democratic republic of the congo see also: list of extinct countries, empires, etc.
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