North Africa

North Africa

English

North Africa (sense 1)

Proper noun

North Africa

1. 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.
2. 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 m (šamāl ʾafrīqiyā), أَفْرِيقِيَا الشَّمَالِيَّة‎ f (ʾafrīqiyā š-šamāliyya) Belarusian: Паўно́чная А́фрыка f (Paŭnóčnaja Áfryka) Bulgarian: Се́верна А́фрика f (Séverna Áfrika) Catalan: Àfrica del Nord f Chinese: Mandarin: 北非 (zh) (Běifēi), 北部非洲 (zh) (Běibù Fēizhōu) Corsican: Nordafrica m, Africa di u Nordu f Danish: Nordafrika n 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 m (uttar afrīkā) Hungarian: Észak-Afrika (hu) Italian: Nordafrica f, Africa del Nord f Japanese: 北アフリカ (ja) (きたアフリカ, Kita Afurika) Korean: 북아프리카 (Bugapeurika) Latvian: Ziemeļāfrika f Manx: Affrick Hwoaie Portuguese: norte da África m Romanian: Africa de Nord f Russian: Се́верная А́фрика (ru) f (Sévernaja Áfrika) Slovak: Severná Afrika f Spanish: África del Norte f Swahili: Afrika ya Kaskazini Swedish: Nordafrika (sv) n Turkish: Kuzey Afrika (tr) Ukrainian: Півні́чна А́фрика f (Pivníčna Áfryka)