Historical African place names

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)

See also