Sub-Saharan Africa

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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.

Gold Coast → partOf → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Mediterranean Basin → partOf → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: Afrotropical realm

Malawi → partOfRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

South Africa → partOfRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Atlantic–Congo languages → primaryRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Hausa people → primaryRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Niger–Congo languages → primaryRegion → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Fulani → region → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Ghana → region → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Nairobi Securities Exchange → region → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

National Assembly of Angola → region → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Trust Territory of Cameroon under French administration → region → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Uganda People’s Congress → region → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

African Research and Studies Institute → regionOfFocus → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Bureau of African Affairs → regionOfFocus → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

AAS → regionServed → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

African Academy of Sciences → regionServed → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

African Centre for Statistics → regionServed → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Hewlett Foundation → regionServed → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Leaders: Africa program → regionServed → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Makerere University → regionServed → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Office of Economic and Regional Affairs → regionServed → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls → regionServed → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Zambia → regionalAffiliation → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Bureau for Africa (USAID) → regionalFocus → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Southern Bantoid → spokenIn → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

Methodist churches → strongPresenceIn → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

Kingdom of Meroë → tradedWith → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa

African Veldt → typicalRegionRepresented → Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ

this entity surface form: sub-Saharan Africa