what names of the continets in Africa changed?

Question

what were the old names these continents had before they were given "new" names?
what are some websites that might help with this?

oops sorry I meant countries, what names of the countries (all) in Africa changed? from old to new?

Answer 1

I think you mean countries, not continents.
Some are: Upper Volta became Burkina Faso, Ethiopia was known as Abyssinia in ancient times, Zaire became the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.

A great source for geographical info is the C.I.A. World Factbook

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Answer 2

If you want to take "Continents" for 10 points, Africa used to part of Pangea in the Permian era and and Gondwanaland in the Triasic. Read more:

http://geology.com/pangea.htm

Answer 3

africa IS a continent. i think you mean to ask which countries have had their names changed. google would be a simple tool to use to find the answer to your question.

Answer 4

Here they are:
click on the link for better formatting,.

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/hist_country_names.htm

Africa

Former Country Name Today

Abyssinia Ethiopia
Afars and Issas Territory Djibouti
Basutoland; formerly a British protectorate became independent in 1966 as the Kingdom of Lesotho
Bechuanaland, formerly a British protectorate became independent in 1966 as Republic of Botswana
Belgian Congo (1908 - 1960) Democratic Republic of the Congo
Benadir (region; former name of Italian Somaliland) Somalia
Biafra, Republic of (named after the Bight of Biafra) today part of Nigeria
Bophuthatswana - nominal republic and homeland for Tswana-speaking people, 1949 reincorporated into South Africa
Bourbon Island Reunion Island
British Bechuanaland (region) incorporated into the Cape Colony (1895) South Africa
British East Africa, British protectorate from1890 until 1920 Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
Cape Colony, 1795-1797 British colony, 1803-1806 colony of the Batavian Republic (Netherlands), since 1910 part of South Africa
Central African Empire Central African Republic
Ciskei (Republic of Ciskei) - homeland for Xhosa-speaking people, 1994 reincorporated into South Africa
Dahomey; (until 1975) Dan Ho Me was an ancient Kingdom located in the south of Benin
French Somaliland Djibouti
French Sudan Mali
German Southwest Africa Namibia
Gold Coast Ghana
Grain Coast Liberia
Hausaland, consisted of seven independent city-states: Biram, Daura, Gobir, Kano, Katsina, Rano, and Zaria. Niger, Nigeria
Italian East Africa (former name for Italian possessions in eastern Africa) Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia

Kaffraria, former name for Transkei South Africa
Katanga - 1960, Belgium granted independence to the Congolese province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Malagasy Republic Madagascar
Nubia (region) Sudan, Egypt
Nyasaland Malawi
Portuguese East Africa Mozambique
Rhodesia, Northern Zambia
Rhodesia, Southern Zimbabwe
Rio de Oro (region) Western Sahara
Ruanda Rwanda
Sahara Occidental, Spanish name for Western Sahara
Sahel (region) Burkina Faso, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal
Senegambia (region; former name of the confederation of Senegal and Gambia) The Gambia, Senegal
Songhay (Songhai), in the 16th century a major empire of the Western Sudan, in the region of Mali, Mauritania
South-West Africa (SWA) Namibia
Spanish Sahara Western Sahara
Spanish West Africa (former name for Ifni and Spanish Sahara) Morocco, Western Sahara
Stellaland, Republic of; annexed by the Boers later British Bechuanaland, incorporated into the Cape Colony (1895) South Africa
Tanganyika Territory, united with the island Zansibar it became Tanzania
Togoland (British Togoland), since 1957 part of Ghana
Transkei (former Kaffraria and one of ten "black homelands" and nominal republic, in Southeast of ) South Africa
Transvaal or ZAR - Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek; today the Province Limpopo of South Africa
Ubangi-Shari (Oubangui-Chari) a former French territory in central Africa, whith independence on 13 August 1960 the country became the Central African Republic
Union of South Africa, formed on 31 May 1910 as a parliamentary union of the four self-governing British colonies: the Cape of Good Hope Province (Cape Province; previously Cape Colony), Natal Province (Natal Colony), the Orange Free State Province (Oranje Vrij Staat/Orange River Colony) and the Transvaal Province (Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek/Transvaal Colony). South Africa
Spanish Guinea Equatorial Guinea
United Arab Republic (UAR)
(former name for a federation between Egypt and Syria) Egypt, Syria
Upper Volta, Burkina, today Burkina Faso
Urundi Burundi
Zaire, changed its name in 1997 to Democratic Republic of the Congo
Zanzibar (island) united with Tanganyika today it is Tanzania
Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) or Transvaal colony; today the Limpopo province of South Africa