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 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, Côte 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.
