Equatorial Africa

Equatorial Africa is an ambiguous 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:

• São Tomé and Príncipe
• Gabon
• Republic of the Congo
• Democratic Republic of Congo
• Uganda
• Kenya