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