Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa, also known as Black Africa, is the part of Africa that is south of the Sahara. It includes of all the countries of Africa that are fully located south of the Sahara desert, except Sudan, which is partly located south of the desert.[1] It includes West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa, but excludes North Africa, since North Africa is considered a part of the Arab world. Somalia, Djibouti, Comoros and Mauritania are geographically part of Sub-Saharan Africa, but also part of the Arab world.[2]
Sub-Saharan Africa Media
Red: Arab states in Africa (Arab League and UNESCO)
The distribution of religions in Africa.
Ethnographic map of Africa, from Meyers Blitz-Lexikon (1932)
ECCAS/CEMAC state, part of Middle Africa* ECCAS state, part of Middle Africa* ECCAS state only
Eastern Africa (UN subregion)* East African Community* Central African Federation (defunct)* Geographic East Africa, including the UN subregion and East African Community
Southern Africa (UN subregion)* Geographic, including above* Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Western Africa (UN subregion)* Maghreb
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References
- ↑ Political definition of "Major regions", according to the UN.. Retrieved 15 December 2010.
- ↑ Tajudeen Abdul Raheem, ed., Pan Africanism: Politics, Economy and Social Change in the Twenty First Century, Pluto Press, London, 1996.
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