North Africa

English

Proper noun

North Africa

2. The northern part of the continent of Africa, usually referring to specifically the regions north of the Sahara Desert where Arabic is widely spoken as a mother tongue.
3. Synonym of Maghreb.

Coordinate terms

• West Africa
• East Africa
• Central Africa
• Southern Africa
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Saharan Africa, Sahara
• Sahel

Translations

the northern part of Africa

• Arabic: شَمَال أَفْرِيقِيَا‎ f (šamāl ʾafrīqiyā), شَمَالِي أَفْرِيقِيَا‎ f (šamālī ʾafrīqiyā)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 北非 (zh) (Běifēi), 北部非洲 (zh) (Běibù Fēizhōu)

• Corsican: Nordafrica m, Africa di u Nordu f
• Danish: Nordafrika
• Dutch: Noord-Afrika (nl) n
• Faroese: Norðurafrika f or n
• Finnish: Pohjois-Afrikka (fi)
• French: Afrique du Nord (fr) f
• Galician: norte de África
• German: Nordafrika (de) n
• Hindi: उत्तर अफ़्रीका (uttar afrīkā)
• Hungarian: Észak-Afrika (hu)

• Italian: Nordafrica m, Africa del Nord f
• Japanese: 北アフリカ (ja) (Kita-Afurika)
• Korean: 북아프리카 (Buk-Apeurika)
• Latvian: Ziemeļāfrika f
• Manx: Affrick Hwoaie
• Portuguese: norte da África m
• Romanian: Africa de Nord
• Russian: Се́верная А́фрика f (Sévernaja Áfrika)
• Slovak: Severná Afrika f
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swahili: Afrika ya Kaskazini
• Swedish: Nordafrika (sv) n
• Turkish: Kuzey Afrika (tr)