Afro-Eurasia.

A geographical group of French colonies in West Africa under the supervisory authority of a single governor-general, comprising the following colonised countries (present names as independent republics in parentheses if different): Dahomey (Benin), French Guinea (Guinea), the French Sudan (Mali), Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Upper Volta (Burkina Faso). The last governor-general was also the first of two successive High commissioners, charged with the transition to independence as independent republics, without a common administrative level.

(historical) The official English name of the country of South Africa from 1910 to 1961, a former country in Southern Africa and Commonwealth dominion under nominal British sovereignty until it became a republic in 1961.

The official name of South Africa, a country in Southern Africa. / (proscribed) The Transvaal statelet from 1852 to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland's annexation of it in 1902.

(exonym, colloquial) South Africa from 1948 to 1991, when the apartheid policy was in force (some definitions may include pre-1948 and extend it to 1994).

a former national anthem of South Africa, created during the 1920s and used from the 1930s to the 1990s.

Alternative form of sub-Saharan Africa

(historical) An Italian colony created in 1936 with the merger of Italian Eritrea, Italian Somaliland and the Ethiopian Empire.

a former British protectorate in the area of present-day Malawi, between 1891 and 1907

(geography) Africa south of the Sahara, particularly used to distinguish the areas chiefly populated by dark-skinned peoples.