Sub-Saharan Africa

E17120

cultural region geographical region region

Sub-Saharan Africa is the geographically expansive and culturally diverse region of Africa located south of the Sahara Desert, encompassing dozens of countries with rapidly growing populations and economies.

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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form	Occurrences
sub-Saharan Africa	29
Afrotropical realm	2
Sub-Saharan African	1
Sub‑Saharan Africa	1
West Africa	1

Statements (101)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural region ⓘ geographical region ⓘ region ⓘ
borderedBy	North Africa ⓘ
contains	Angola ⓘ Benin ⓘ Botswana ⓘ Burkina Faso ⓘ Burundi ⓘ Cameroon ⓘ Cape Verde Islands ⓘ surface form: Cape Verde Central African Republic ⓘ Chad ⓘ Comoros ⓘ Democratic Republic of the Congo ⓘ Djibouti ⓘ Equatorial Guinea ⓘ Eritrea ⓘ Eswatini ⓘ Ethiopia ⓘ Gabon ⓘ The Gambia ⓘ surface form: Gambia Ghana ⓘ Guinea ⓘ Guinea-Bissau ⓘ Côte d'Ivoire ⓘ surface form: Ivory Coast Kenya ⓘ Lesotho ⓘ Liberia ⓘ Madagascar ⓘ Malawi ⓘ Mali ⓘ Mauritius ⓘ Mozambique ⓘ Namibia ⓘ Niger ⓘ Nigeria ⓘ Republic of the Congo ⓘ Rwanda ⓘ São Tomé and Príncipe ⓘ surface form: Sao Tome and Principe Senegal ⓘ Seychelles ⓘ Sierra Leone ⓘ Somalia ⓘ South Africa ⓘ South Sudan ⓘ Sudan ⓘ Tanzania ⓘ Togo ⓘ Uganda ⓘ Zambia ⓘ Zimbabwe ⓘ
continentPartOf	Africa ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	culturally diverse ⓘ linguistically diverse ⓘ rapid economic growth ⓘ rapid population growth ⓘ religiously diverse ⓘ
hasClimate	equatorial ⓘ savanna ⓘ semi-arid ⓘ tropical ⓘ
hasDevelopmentChallenge	infectious diseases ⓘ infrastructure deficit ⓘ poverty ⓘ
hasDevelopmentOpportunity	natural resources ⓘ urbanization ⓘ youthful population ⓘ
hasMajorEconomicBloc	Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ⓘ East African Community ⓘ ECOWAS ⓘ surface form: Economic Community of West African States Southern African Development Community ⓘ
hasMajorLake	Lake Malawi ⓘ Lake Tanganyika ⓘ Lake Victoria ⓘ
hasMajorRiver	Congo River ⓘ Niger River ⓘ Orange River ⓘ Zambezi River ⓘ
hasNaturalRegion	East African Rift ⓘ Equatorial lakes region ⓘ surface form: Great Lakes region of Africa Guinean forests of West Africa ⓘ Kalahari Desert ⓘ Miombo woodlands ⓘ Namib Desert ⓘ Sahel ⓘ Sudanian savanna ⓘ
locatedSouthOf	Sahara Desert ⓘ
majorColonialLanguage	English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Portuguese language ⓘ surface form: Portuguese Spanish ⓘ
majorLanguageFamily	Afroasiatic languages ⓘ Khoisan languages ⓘ Niger–Congo languages ⓘ Nilo-Saharan languages ⓘ
majorReligion	African traditional religions ⓘ Christianity ⓘ Islam ⓘ
partOf	Third World ⓘ surface form: Global South

Referenced by (79)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lake Chad basin → UNRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

subject surface form: Lake Chad Basin

Northwest Africa → adjacentTo → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Neolithic Revolution → alsoOccurredIndependentlyInRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Dirachmaceae → biogeographicRealm → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Afrotropical realm

Black Entertainment Television → broadcastArea → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Arabs → diasporaPresence → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

HIV/AIDS → disproportionatelyAffects → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Numididae → distribution → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Sagittariidae → distribution → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Onchocerca volvulus → endemicRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Afro-Arubans → ethnicOrigin → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sub-Saharan African

Office of Regional Peace and Security → focusArea → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

River Blindness Program → focusesOn → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Roll Back Malaria → focusesOnRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Nile crocodile → foundIn → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Benue–Congo languages → geographicDistribution → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Giraffidae → geographicDistribution → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Kinixys → geographicDistribution → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Qadiri → geographicDistribution → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Sufism → geographicDistribution → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Sub‑Saharan Africa

Giraffa camelopardalis → geographicRange → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

French Community → geographicRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa → geographicScope → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Central Africa Time → geographicalFocus → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

National Museum of African Art → hasCollectionScope → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Numida → hasHabitat → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Protestant Christianity → hasLargePresenceIn → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Radical Reformation → hasMainRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Islamic world → hasRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Brussels Airlines → hasSecondaryMarket → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Old World → hasSubregion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Western Christianity → isDemographicallySignificantIn → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Pentecostal churches → largestPresence → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Benue River → locatedIn → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: West Africa

East Africa → locatedIn → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Northern Nigeria → locatedIn → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Yola → locatedIn → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Black Canadians → majorAncestralOrigins → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Africa Cup of Nations → mostCommonHostRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Aepycerotinae → nativeRange → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Aquila verreauxii → nativeRange → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

helmeted guineafowl → nativeRange → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Acryllium → nativeTo → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

African wild dog → nativeTo → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Guttera → nativeTo → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Phacochoerus africanus → nativeTo → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Reduncinae → nativeTo → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Sagittariidae → nativeTo → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Syncerus caffer → nativeTo → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Iron Age → occursIn → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ