BLACK AFRICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Black Africa mean? 

• BLACK AFRICA (noun)
  The noun BLACK AFRICA has 1 sense:

1. the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert

  Familiarity information: BLACK AFRICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK AFRICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The region of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Black Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Black Africa" 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)