| The Seven Regions of Africa |
| 1. North Africa is the area along the Mediterranean coast from modern Morocco to Libya, including the Sahara Desert. 2. Nilotic Africa consists of the lands around the Nile River, in the area of Modern Egypt and Sudan. 3. Sudanic Africa is also known as the Sudan region. This area lies below the Sahara Desert, stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea coastline, from modern Senegal to Ethiopia. (It most be noted that there is some overlap between the Sudan region and West Africa, as well as Nilotic Africa.) 4. West Africa consists of the coastal rain forest region from Cape Verde to Cameroon. This area includes the West Sudanic region, south of the Sahara to Lake Chad. 5. Central Africa lies north of the Kalahari Desert and Zambezi River and east of the Great Rift Valley and Lake Tanganyika. 6. East Africa stretches from Ethiopia along the Great Rift Valley to the Zambezi River. 7. South Africa is the area south of the Zambezi River to the Cape of Good Hope and includes the Kalahari and Namib Deserts. |