Land of the blacks

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The term land of the blacks was one applied to regions of Africa by almost all outsiders. Today, because the continent's countries were named by outsiders a good number of them have names that translate as land of the blacks:

• Ethiopia, from the Ancient Greek via Latin
• Sudan, from Arabic
• Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau, from Berber via Portuguese
• Niger and Nigeria, from Latin.