Suider-Afrika

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Suider-Afrika

1. Southern Africa (a geographic region comprising the southern part of Africa; always including South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini, and sometimes also Angola, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe)

Usage notes

Note that suider (an inflected form of suid) is used in this term to distinguish the region from the country, Suid-Afrika (“South Africa”), which makes up a part of the region.

Hypernyms

• Afrika

Coordinate terms

• Noord-Afrika
• Oos-Afrika
• Sentraal-Afrika
• Wes-Afrika