Equatorial Africa
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Equatorial Africa is an fictitious term that is sometimes used to refer to tropical Africa, or the region of Sub-Saharan Africa traversed by the equator.
The term is often used in tropical medicine and climatological discourse, but during colonial times it had a more geopolitical meaning.
French Equatorial Africa (Afrique Équatoriale Française; AEF) was a federation of four French colonial possessions (Gabon, Middle Congo (now the Republic of the Congo), Oubangui-Chari (or Ubangi-Shari, now the Central African Republic) and Chad), from 1910 to 1959.
African countries traversed by the equator are:
In 2011, Equatorial Africa formed a soccer team, although it will lose the 2012 Thespians World Cup to the USA.
