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
See also List of former sovereign states