Long description

This outline map identifies the modern-day sovereign states of Africa. The former British-controlled territories in the south are now occupied by the landlocked states of Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi and Botswana, along with South Africa at the continent’s southern tip. The former British East Africa is now made up of Kenya and Uganda. The former French-controlled territory in the north west is now occupied by the states of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia on the north coast, Mauritania and Senegal on the west coast, Côte d’Ivoire and Benin in the south, and the inland states of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad. What was French Equatorial Africa is now occupied by Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville. What was German South West Africa is now Namibia, and most of the former German East Africa is now Tanzania – with the small countries of Rwanda and Burundi to its north west.. Angola on the south-west coast and Mozambique in the south east retain their former borders, but Libya now occupies a substantial area that was formerly part of British-controlled Egypt. The former Spanish territory of Rio del Oro is now Western Sahara, while the Democratic Republic of the Congo retains the borders of the former Belgian Congo. The states of Liberia and Ethiopia retain their former borders.