AFRICAN COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does African country mean? 

• AFRICAN COUNTRY (noun)
  The noun AFRICAN COUNTRY has 1 sense:

1. any one of the countries occupying the African continent

  Familiarity information: AFRICAN COUNTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFRICAN COUNTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any one of the countries occupying the African continent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

African country; African nation

Hypernyms ("African country" is a kind of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

Federal Republic of Nigeria; Nigeria (a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country)

Guine-Bissau; Guinea-Bissau; Portuguese Guinea; Republic of Guinea-Bissau (a republic on the northwestern coast of Africa; recognized as independent by Portugal in 1974)

Basutoland; Kingdom of Lesotho; Lesotho (a landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966)

Liberia; Republic of Liberia (a republic in West Africa; established in 1822 by Americans as a way to free negro slaves)

Libya; Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum)

Madagascar; Malagasy Republic; Republic of Madagascar (a republic on the island of Madagascar; achieved independence from France in 1960)

Malawi; Nyasaland; Republic of Malawi (a landlocked republic in southern central Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964)

French Sudan; Mali; Republic of Mali (a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960; Mali was a center of West African civilization for more than 4,000 years)

Islamic Republic of Mauritania; Mauritania; Mauritanie; Muritaniya (a country in northwestern Africa with a provisional military government; achieved independence from France in 1960; largely western Sahara Desert)

Al-Magrib; Kingdom of Morocco; Maroc; Marruecos; Morocco (a kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa with a largely Muslim population; achieved independence from France in 1956)

Mocambique; Mozambique; Republic of Mozambique (a republic on the southeastern coast of Africa on the Mozambique Channel; became independent from Portugal in 1975)

Niger; Republic of Niger (a landlocked republic in West Africa; gained independence from France in 1960; most of the country is dominated by the Sahara Desert)

Algeria; Algerie; Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria (a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s)

Republic of Senegal; Senegal (a republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic; formerly a French colony but achieved independence in 1960)

Republic of Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone (a republic in West Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1961)

Somalia (a republic in extreme eastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; subject to tribal warfare)

Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))

Republic of the Sudan; Soudan; Sudan (a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956)

Kingdom of Swaziland; Swaziland (a landlocked monarchy in southeastern Africa; member of the commonwealth that achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1968)

Tanzania; United Republic of Tanzania (a republic in eastern Africa)

Republic of Tunisia; Tunisia (a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean coast; achieved independence from France in 1956)

Republic of Uganda; Uganda (a landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962)

Northern Rhodesia; Republic of Zambia; Zambia (a republic in central Africa; formerly controlled by Great Britain and called Northern Rhodesia until it gained independence within the commonwealth in 1964)

Republic of Zimbabwe; Rhodesia; Southern Rhodesia; Zimbabwe (a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980)

Ghana; Gold Coast; Republic of Ghana (a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea)

Namibia; Republic of Namibia; South West Africa (a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa)

Angola; Republic of Angola (a republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975 and was the scene of civil war until 1990)

Burundi; Republic of Burundi (a landlocked republic in east central Africa on the northeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika)

Cameroon; Cameroun; Republic of Cameroon (a republic on the western coast of central Africa; was under French and British control until 1960)

Central Africa; Central African Republic (a landlocked country in central Africa; formerly under French control; became independent in 1960)

Chad; Republic of Chad; Tchad (a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was under French control until 1960)

Congo; French Congo; Republic of the Congo (a republic in west-central Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960)

Belgian Congo; Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Zaire (a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960)

Cote d'Ivoire; Ivory Coast; Republic of Cote d'Ivoire (a republic in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; one of the most prosperous and politically stable countries in Africa)

Benin; Dahomey; Republic of Benin (a country on western coast of Africa; formerly under French control)

Togo; Togolese Republic (a republic on the western coast of Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; formerly under French control)

Afars and Issas; Djibouti; Republic of Djibouti (a country in northeastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; formerly under French control but became independent in 1997)

Equatorial Guinea; Republic of Equatorial Guinea; Spanish Guinea (a country of west central Africa (including islands in the Gulf of Guinea); became independent from Spain in 1968)

Eritrea; State of Eritrea (an African country to the north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993)

Abyssinia; Ethiopia; Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Yaltopya (Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia)

Ruanda; Rwanda; Rwandese Republic (a landlocked republic in central Africa; formerly a German colony)

Botswana; Republic of Botswana (a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s)

Arab Republic of Egypt; Egypt; United Arab Republic (a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC)

Kenya; Republic of Kenya (a republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1963; major archeological discoveries have been made in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya)

Gabon; Gabonese Republic; Gabun (a republic on the west coast of Africa)

Gambia; Republic of The Gambia; The Gambia (a narrow republic surrounded by Senegal in West Africa)

French Guinea; Guinea; Republic of Guinea (a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958)

Holonyms ("African country" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)