title: Historical African place names
text: # 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)
  * 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
  