page_title: Sub-Saharan Africa
section_title: Southern Africa
hierarchical_section_title: Sub-Saharan Africa / List of countries and regional organization / Southern Africa
caption_attribution_description: Map: Africa – Southern Africa: dark green: UN subregion green: geographic, including above light green: Southern African Development Community (SADC)
context_page_description: Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically and ethnoculturally, the area of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara. According to the United Nations, it consists of all African countries and territories that are fully or partially located south of the Sahara. While the United Nations geoscheme for Africa excludes Sudan from its definition of sub-Saharan Africa, the African Union's definition includes Sudan but instead excludes Mauritania.
  It contrasts with North Africa, whose countries are part of the League of Arab states within the Arab world. The states of Somalia, Djibouti, Comoros and the Arabic-speaking Mauritania and Sudan are, however, geographically in sub-Saharan Africa, although they are members of the Arab League as well. The UN Development Program lists 46 of Africa's 54 countries as "sub-Saharan", excluding Algeria, Djibouti, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan and Tunisia.
  The term has been criticized by late Professor Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, on Pambazuka as being a racist word because it refers to the area south of the Sahara by geographical conventions.
context_section_description: SADC (Southern African Development Community)
   Angola (also in ECCAS) cap. Luanda cur. Angolan kwanza (Kz) lang. Portuguese
   Botswana cap. Gaborone cur. Botswana pula (P) lang. Tswana, English
   Comoros cap. Moroni cur. Comorian franc (CF) lang. Comorian, Arabic, French
   Lesotho cap. Maseru cur. Lesotho loti (L)(M) lang. Sesotho, English
   Madagascar cap. Antananarivo cur. Malagasy ariary (MGA) lang. Malagasy, French
   Malawi cap. Lilongwe cur. Malawian kwacha (MK) lang. English
   Mauritius cap. Port Louis cur. Mauritian rupee (R) lang. English
   Mozambique cap. Maputo cur. Mozambican metical (MTn) lang. Portuguese
   Namibia cap. Windhoek cur. Namibian dollar (N$) lang. English
   Seychelles cap. Victoria cur. Seychellois rupee (SR)(SRe) lang. Seychellois Creole, English, French
   South Africa cap. Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Pretoria cur. South African rand (R) lang. 11 official languages
   Swaziland cap. Mbabane cur. Swazi lilangeni (L)(E) lang. SiSwati, English
   Zambia cap. Lusaka cur. Zambian kwacha (ZK) lang. English
   Zimbabwe cap. Harare cur. Zimbabwean dollar ($) lang. English
caption:   Southern Africa (UN subregion)   geographic, including above   Southern African Development Community (SADC)
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