| Former Country Name | Todays Name |
| Abyssinia |
 Ethiopia |
| Afars and Issas Territory |
 Djibouti |
| Basutoland formerly a British protectorate became independent in 1966 as the |
 Kingdom of Lesotho |
| Bechuanaland, formerly a British protectorate became independent in 1966 as |
 Republic of Botswana |
| Belgian Congo (1908 - 1960) |
 Democratic Republic of
the Congo |
| Benadir (region; former name of Italian Somaliland) |
 Somalia |
| Biafra, Republic of (named after the Bight of Biafra) today part of |
 Nigeria |
| Bophuthatswana - nominal republic and homeland for Tswana-speaking people, 1949 reincorporated into |
 South Africa |
| Bourbon Island |
 Reunion Island |
| British Bechuanaland (region) incorporated into the Cape Colony (1895) |
South Africa |
| British East Africa, British protectorate from1890 until 1920 |
 Kenya
 Tanzania
 Uganda |
| Cape Colony, 1795-1797 British colony, 1803-1806 colony of the Batavian Republic (Netherlands),
since 1910 part of |
South Africa |
| Central African Empire |
 Central African Republic |
| Ciskei (Republic of Ciskei) - homeland for Xhosa-speaking people, 1994 reincorporated into |
South Africa |
| Dahomey (the Republic of Dahomey; in French: République du Dahomey), was a former French
colony and part of French West Africa until independence in 1960, in 1975 the Republic of Dahomey changed its
name to |
 Benin. |
| Dan Ho Me was an ancient Kingdom located in the south of today Benin. |
Benin |
| French Guinea was a French protectorate in West Africa, after independence from France in 1958 it
became today |
 Guinea |
| French Somaliland |
Djibouti |
| French Sudan |
 Mali |
French West Africa, was a federation of eight French colonial territories in Africa: Mauritania, Senegambia and
Niger, French Sudan, French Guinea, Cóte d'Ivoire, Upper Volta and Dahomey.
Mauritania, The Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Mali, Guinea, Cóte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Benin. |
| German Southwest Africa |
 Namibia |
| Gold Coast |
 Ghana |
| Grain Coast |
 Liberia |
| Hausaland, consisted of seven independent city-states: Biram, Daura, Gobir, Kano, Katsina, Rano, and Zaria. |
Niger
 Nigeria |
| Italian East Africa (former name for Italian possessions in eastern Africa) |
 Eritrea
Ethiopia
Somalia |
| Kaffraria, former name for Transkei |
South Africa |
| Katanga - 1960, Belgium granted independence to the Congolese province of the |
Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Malagasy Republic |
 Madagascar |
| Mali Federation, was a country in West Africa 1959-1960, formed by a union between |
 Senegal and
Mali |
| Nubia (region) |
 Sudan
 Egypt |
| Nyasaland |
 Malawi |
| Portuguese East Africa |
 Mozambique |
| Rhodesia, Northern |
 Zambia |
| Rhodesia, Southern |
 Zimbabwe |
| Rio de Oro (region) |
 Western Sahara |
| Ruanda |
 Rwanda |
| Sahara Occidental, Spanish name for |
Western Sahara |
| Sahel (region) | Burkina Faso, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal |
| Senegambia (region; former name of the confederation of Senegal and Gambia) |
 The Gambia,
Senegal |
| Songhay (Songhai), in the 16th century a major em
pire of the Western Sudan, in the region of |
Mali
 Mauritania |
| South-West Africa (SWA, German: Deutsch-Südwestafrika), a German colony from 1884-1915 |
Namibia |
| Spanish Guinea |
Equatorial Guinea |
| Spanish Sahara |
Western Sahara |
| Spanish West Africa (former name for Ifni and Spanish Sahara) |
 Morocco,
Western Sahara |
| Stellaland, Republic of; annexed by the Boers later British Bechuanaland, incorporated into the Cape Colony (1895) |
South Africa |
| Sudanese Republic |
Mali |
| Tanganyika Territory, united with the island Zansibar it became |
Tanzania |
| Togoland (British Togoland), since 1957 part of |
Ghana |
| Transkei (former Kaffraria and one of ten "black homelands" and nominal republic, in Southeast of) |
South Africa |
| Transvaal or ZAR - Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek; today the Province Limpopo of |
South Africa |
| Ubangi-Shari (Oubangui-Chari) a former French territory in central Africa, whith independence on 13 August 1960 the
country became the |
Central African Republic |
| Union of South Africa, formed on 31 May 1910 as a parliamentary union of the four self-governing British colonies: the Cape
of Good Hope Province (Cape Province; previously Cape Colony), Natal Province (Natal Colony), the Orange Free State Province
(Oranje Vrij Staat/Orange River Colony) and the Transvaal Province (Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek/Transvaal Colony).
|
South Africa |
| United Arab Republic (UAR) (former name for a federation between Egypt and Syria) |
Egypt
 Syria |
| Upper Volta, Burkina, today |
 Burkina Faso |
| Urundi |
 Burundi |
| Zaire, changed its name in 1997 to |
Democratic Republic of
the Congo |
| Zanzibar (island) united with Tanganyika today it is |
Tanzania |
| Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) or Transvaal colony; today the Limpopo province of |
South Africa |
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