Zentralafrika Gliederung nach der UN-Statistikabteilung. In der Statistikabteilung der Vereinten Nationen werden unter dem Statistikbezirk Zentralafrika folgende neun Länder geführt. Diese Einteilung wird von der Afrikanischen Union in ähnlicher Weise vorgenommen, jedoch ohne Angola und mit Burundi: Angola Äquatorialguinea Gabun Kamerun Demokratische Republik …

The Congolian rainforest is the world's second-largest tropical forest, after the Amazon rainforest.It covers over 500,000,000 acres (2,000,000 km 2) across six countries and contains a quarter of the world's remaining tropical forest. The Congolian forests cover southeastern Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, the northern and central Democratic Republic of …

The Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine (German: Großherzogtum Hessen und bei Rhein) was a grand duchy in western Germany that existed from 1806 to 1918. The Grand Duchy originally formed from the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1806 as the Grand Duchy of Hesse (German: Großherzogtum Hessen).It assumed the name Hesse and bei Rhein in 1816 to …

North Africa or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in the west, to Egypt's Suez Canal.. Varying sources limit it to the countries of Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia, a region that was …

Southern Rhodesia was a landlocked self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa, established in 1923 and consisting of British South Africa Company (BSAC) territories lying south of the Zambezi River. The region was informally known as south Zambesia until annexed by Britain at the behest of Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company, for whom the colony was …

Etymology. The Greek name Aithiopia (Αἰθιοπία, from Αἰθίοψ, Aithíops, 'an Ethiopian') is a compound derived of two Greek words: αἴθω, aíthō, 'I burn' + ὤψ, ṓps, 'face'.According to the Perseus Project, this designation properly translates in noun form as burnt-face and in adjectival form as red-brown. As such, it was used as a vague term for dark-skinned ...

The Middle East (Arabic: الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ash-Sharq al-Awsat) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (European part of Turkey), Egypt, Iran, the Levant (including Ash-Shām and Cyprus), Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), and the …

Thembuland, Afrikaans: Temboeland, is a natural region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.Its territory is the traditional region of the abaThembu, one of the states of the Xhosa nation.. It was formerly also known as "Tamboekieland" or "Tambookieland". The area of Thembuland proper includes present-day Mthatha, Mqanduli, Ngcobo, Mjanyana, Dutywa and …

Nel 1911 la Germania acquistò il Neukamerun dalla Francia, annettendo 295.000 km² di territorio e cedendo in cambio il cosiddetto Entenschnabel ("becco d'anatra"), fino ad allora parte del Kamerun tedesco e vasto però solo 12.000 km². Con questo scambio di territori la colonia tedesca del Kamerun passò da 495.000 km² a 778.000 km² e, di conseguenza, l'impero coloniale …

Er trieb Prestigepolitik und erwarb weitere Kolonien in Nord- und Mittelafrika, Madagaskar und Indochina. Nachdem Napoléon III. seit seinem Staatsstreich vom 2. Dezember 1851 internationale Wirtschaftsabkommen nicht mehr durch das Parlament ratifizieren lassen musste, begann Frankreich 1860 mit befreundeten Nationen und wichtigen ...