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ALGERIA
Other names: al-Jazā’ir, Algiers, Barbary Coast, French
Possessions in the North of Africa, Possessions Françaises dans le Nord de
l'Afrique, French Algeria, République Algérienne,
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Algerian
State
Algiers
Bone
(Bona)
Bougie
Constantine
Honaine
(Oney)
Spanish
Oran
French
Sahara (1957-1962)
Kel
Ahaggar
Tuggurt
ANGOLA
Other name: Portuguese West Africa,
República de Angola, Democratic and People's Republic of
Angola
Alternative
government: UNITA (1975-2002)
Cabinda
BENIN
Other name: Dahomey, Benin, Établissements Français du
Golfe de Benin, French Establishments in the Gulf of
Benin, Republic of Dahomey, People's Republic of Benin,
Republic of Benin
French Contou
French
Porto-Novo
São João
Baptista de Ajudá (1680-1961)
English
Whydah: Fort William (1681-1812)
French
Ouidah: Fort St. Louis (1671-1797)
BOTSWANA
Other name: Bechuanaland
Botswan traditional states
baRôlông
baKwêna
baNgwaketse
baNgwato
baTawana
baKgatla
baLete
(baMalete)
baTlôkwa
BURKINA
FASO
Other names: Upper Volta, Voltaic Republic, République
Voltaïque, Upper Ivory Coast, Haute Côte d'Ivoire,
Haute-Volta
BURUNDI
Other name: Urundi, Kingdom of Burundi, Ruanda-Urundi
CAMEROON
Other names: État du Cameroun, Republic of Cameroon,
Federal Republic of Cameroon, United Republic of
Cameroon, German North-West Africa, German Kamerun,
French Cameroun, British Cameroons
Ambas
Bay (Victoria colony)
German
Kamerun
British
Cameroons
French
Cameroons
CABO VERDE
(CAPE VERDE)
Other names: Cape Verde Islands, Cabo Verde, Republic of
Cape Verde
CENTRAL
AFRICAN REPUBLIC
Other names: République Centrafricaine, Ubangui-Bomu,
Haut-Oubangui, Haut-Chari, Oubangui-Chari, Central
African Empire, Empire Centrafricain, Ködörösêse tî
Bêafrîka
CHAD
Other names: Tchad, Territory of Chad,
Republic of Chad, République du Tchad
COMOROS
Other names: Comore, Ngazidja (Grande Comore), Ndzuwani
(Anjouan), Mwali (Mohéli), French Comoros
CONGO
(Brazzaville)
Other names: République du Congo, French Congo, Moyen
Congo, Middle Congo, Republic of the Congo, People's
Republic of Congo
French
Equatorial Africa (1886-1960)
New
Cameroon (1916-1921)
CONGO
(Kinshasa)
Other names: République Démocratique du Congo,
Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Congo Free State,
Belgian Congo, Zaire, République du Zaïre
CÔTE
D'IVORIE
Other names: Assinie, Grand Bassam, République de Côte
d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast, Côte d'Or, French Gold Coast,
Établissements Français de la Côte d'Or, French
Establishments in the Gold Coast
DJIBOUTI
Other names: Jibuti, Jabuuti, Gabuuti, Obock and
Protectorate of Tadjoura, Obock and Protectorates of the
Somali Coast and Dankils Countries, Obock et
Protectorats de la Côte des Somalis et des pays Dankils,
French Coast of the Somalis, Côte Française des Somalis
et Dépendances, French Somaliland, Côte Française des
Somalis et Dépendances, Afars and Issas Territory,
Territoire Français des Afars et des Issas
EGYPT
Other name: Misr, Aegypti, Aigýptou, Égypte, Mameluke
Sultanate, Eyalet-i Mısr, Khedivate of Egypt, Sultanate
of Egypt, Kingdom of Egypt, United Arab Republic,
Egyptian Region
Suez
Canal Zone (1855-1956)
EQUATORIAL
GUINEA
Other names: Guinea Ecuatorial, Guinée Équatoriale,
Fernando Póo, Annobón, Río Muni, Spanish Guinea,
Spanish Territories in the Gulf of Guinea, Territorios
Españoles del Golfo de Guinea, Autonomous Community
of Equatorial Guinea, Comunidad Autónoma de Guinea
Ecuatorial, Republic of Equatorial Guinea
Annobón
Provinces 1959-1968
Equatorial Guinea traditional states
Bubi
Cabo
San Juan/Corisco
Cabo
San Juan
Corisco
ERITREA
Other names: Ertra, Iritrīyā, Arkiko, Assab, Massawa,
Italian Eritrea, Eritrean Autonomous State, Eritrea
province
ESWATINI
(SWAZILAND)
Other name: Eswatini, eSwatini, weSwatini, Swazieland,
Kingdom of Swaziland
ETHIOPIA
Other names: Ītyōppyā, Axum (Aksum), Abyssinia, Italian
East Africa, Ethiopian Empire, People's Democratic
Republic of Ethiopia, Federal Democratic Republic of
Ethiopia
GABON
Other names: République Gabonaise, Gabonese Republic,
French Gulf of Guinea settlements
Gabon
and Dependencies 1839-1886
Traditional States
Orungu
Mpongwe
Olamba
THE GAMBIA
Other names: Gambia, Courlander Gambia, Fort James, Dutch
Gambia, French Gambia, British Gambia, Bathurst colony,
Senegambia, Senegambia Confederation, Republic of The
Gambia, Islamic Republic of The Gambia
GHANA
Other names: Ashanti, English Gold Coast, British Gold
Coast, Gold Coast, Gold Coast Territory
Northern
Territories (1897-1957)
Gold Coast
Colony Region (1945-1953)
Danish
Gold Coast
Dutch
Gold Coast
Prussian
(Brandenburger) Gold Coast
Portuguese
Gold Coast
Swedish
Gold Coast
GUINEA
Other names: République de Guinée, Riviéres du Sud,
French Guinea, Guinée Française, Établissements des
Riviéres du Sud, People's Revolutionary Republic of
Guinea, Republic of Guinea
GUINEA-BISSAU
Other names: Bissau, Cacheu, Portuguese Guinea,
República da Guiné-Bissau, Republic of Guinea-Bissau.
Bissau
Cacheu
Bolama
Traditional State
N'Gabu
KENYA
Former names: British East Africa, Keeyna, Colony of Kenya
and the East Africa Protectorate, Republic of Kenya
Kenyan traditional states
Pate
Witu
Mombassa
Masai
Nandi
Wanga
LESOTHO
Other name: Basutoland, Kingdom of Lesotho
LIBERIA
Other name: Cape Mesurado Colony
Port
Cresson/Bassa Cove (1832-1839)
Edina
(1832-1837)
Maryland-in-Liberia
(1834-1857)
Mississippi-in-Africa
(1837-1842)
New
Georgia (1834-1839)
LIBYA
Other name: Barbary Coast, Tripoli, Tripolantania,
Cyrenaica, Fezzan, Italian Libia, Libia Italiana, United
Libyan Kingdom, Libyan Kingdom, Libyan Arab Republic,
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriyya, State of
Libya
Tripolitania
(Tripoli)
Cyrenaica
Fezzan
MADAGASCAR
Other name: Kingdom of Madagascar, Malagasy
Republic, République Malgache, Republic of Madagascar
French colonies:
Diego Suarez
Fort-Dauphin
Nossi-Bé
Sainte-Marie
de Madagascar
MALAWI
Other names: Shire River Protectorate, Shire Highlands
Protectorate, British Central Africa Protectorate,
Nyasaland Districts Protectorate, Nyasaland
Protectorate, Republic of Malawi
MALI
Other names: République du Mali, Upper Senegal, Upper
Senegal and Niger, Haut-Sénégal-Niger, French Sudan,
Soudan Français, Sudanese Republic, République Soudanaise,
Mali Fededration
MAURITANIA
Other name: Mauritanie, Islamic Republic of
Mauritania
MAURITIUS
Other names: Île Maurice, Île de France, Mascarene
Islands, Republic of Mauritius
MAYOTTE
Other names: Maore, Mawuti
MOROCCO
Other names: al-Magrib, al-Maghribiyya, Moroc, Sharifi
Moroccan State, Sultanate of Morocco, Kingdom of
Morocco, al-Mamlakah al-Maghribiyyah
MOZAMBIQUE
Other names: Portuguese East Africa, Moçambique, Zambesi
and Sofala colony, Niassa
NAMIBIA
Other names: Deutsch-Südwestafrika, German South West
Africa, South West Africa
NIGER
Other name: République du Niger, Nijar, French
Autonomous Military Territory of Zinder, Niger Military
Territory.
Niger traditional states
Doso
Maradi
Damagaram
Songhay
Tera
Kokoro
Goruol
Dargol
Berber
Sultanate of Aïr
NIGERIA
Other names: Northern Nigeria, Southern Nigeria, Bight of
Biafra protectorate, Bight of Benin protectorate, Oil
Rivers protectorate, Niger Districts protectorate, Niger
River Delta protectorate, Federation of Nigeria, Republic
of Nigeria, Federal Republic of Nigeria
REUNION
Other names: Île de Bourbon, Île de Bonaparte
RWANDA
Other name: Ruanda, Kingdom of Rwanda, Rwandan Republic,
République Rwandaise, Ruanda-Urundi, Republic of Rwanda
Rwandan Hutu kingdoms
Bugama-Kiganda
Buhoma
Bukonya
Bukunzi
Bushiru
Busozo
Bwanamwari
Cyingogo
Impara
Kibari
Ruhengeri
Rwankeri
Other Kingdoms
Bugesera
Kisaka
(Gisaka)
Ndorwa
SAINT
HELENA, ASCENSION AND TRISTAN DA CUNHA
Other names: St. Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha
French
Possessions on St. Helena
Ascension
Tristan da
Cunha
Gough
Island
Inaccessible
Island
Nightingale
Island
SÃO TOMÉ AND
PRÍNCIPE
Other name: São Tomé e Príncipe, Saint Thomas and Prince
Islands, Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
Príncipe
São
Tomé
SENEGAL
Other names: Sénégal, Senegambia, Mali Federation, State
of Senegal, Republic of Senegal, Senegambia
Confederation
French
West Africa (1895-1958)
Dakar
and Dependencies (1924-46)
Gorée
Casamance
SEYCHELLES
Other name: Séchelles, Seychelles Islands, Republic of
Seychelles
SIERRA
LEONE
Other name: Province of Freedom, Colony of Sierra Leone
and its Dependencies, Republic of Sierra Leone
SOMALIA
Other names: Soomaaliya, Egyptian Somaliland, Italian
Somalia, Somalia Italiana, British Somaliland, Benadir
(Banadir) Coast, Somali Democratic Republic, Somali
Republic, Federal Republic of Somalia
SOUTH AFRICA
Other names: Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Cape
Colony, Union of South Africa, Azania
SOUTH SUDAN
Other names: Southern Sudan, Southern
Sudan Autonomous Region, Southern Sudan Region, Nile
Provisional Governmen, Autonomous Government of Southern
Sudan, Republic of South Sudan
THE SUDAN
Other names: Egyptian Sudan, Mahadist State, Mahdiya,
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Republic of The Sudan
Abyei Area
Darfur Regional
Authority (2007-2016)
SWAZILAND: SEE ESWATINI
TANZANIA
Other names: German East Africa, Deutsch-Ostafrika,
Tanganyika, Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanganyika and
Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania
Zanzibar
TOGO
Other names: Togolese Republic, République Togolaise,
German Togoland, British Togoland, French Togo, Republic
of Togo, République du Togo
German
Togland
British Togoland
TUNISIA
Other name: Tūnisiyya, Tunisian Regency, Régence de
Tunis, Tunisian Kingdom, Kingdom of Tunisia
UGANDA
Other name: Buganda, Uganda Protectorate, Sovereign
State of Uganda, Republic of Uganda
Ugandan kingdoms
Ankole
(Nkore)
Buganda
Bunyoro-Kitara
Rwenzururu
Tooro
(Toro)
WESTERN
SAHARA
Other names: Tanezruft Tutrimt, Sáhara Occidental,
Spanish West Africa, África Occidental Española, Rio de
Oro, Spanish Sahara, Sáhara Español, Saharan Arab
Democratic Republic, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic,
SADR, Jumhūrīyya al-`Arabīyya as-Sahrāwīyya
ad-Dimuqrātiyya, Boujdour, Laayoune, Es Semara, Oued el
Dahab
ZAMBIA
Other names: North Zambesia, North-Eastern Rhodesia,
North-Western Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, Republic of
Zambia
ZIMBABWE
Other names: Mashonaland, Matabeleland, South Zambesia,
Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia, Zimbawe-Rhodesia, Republic
of Zimbabwe
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