Historical African place names
# 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
