Alternative form of sub-Saharan Africa

(historical) A region ruled by the German Empire and later South Africa, corresponding to present-day Namibia.

(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.

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.

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.

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

(South Africa, politics) A minor South African political party founded in 2008.

(historical) A company founded by Cecil Rhodes that received a charter from the British government to administer a country in southern Africa that Rhodes named Rhodesia.