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Subsaharan Africa

Subsaharan Africa is the alternative form of sub-Saharan Africa.

Meaning of sub-Saharan Africa

Proper noun

sub-Saharan Africa

  1. Africa south of the Sahara, particularly used to distinguish the areas chiefly populated by dark-skinned peoples.
    • While the average cost of sending money to sub-Saharan Africa is the highest in the world, the cost of digital remittances to the region is less than the global average. If more Africans sent money home via digital services rather than cash, average remittance fees should fall, but receiving money...2025 February 25, Joshua Korber Hoffman, “It costs more to send money to sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else in the world: these companies are trying to change that”, in CNN, archived from the...

Questions about Subsaharan Africa

What is Subsaharan Africa the alternative form of?
Subsaharan Africa is the alternative form of sub-Saharan Africa.

Words near Subsaharan Africa in the dictionary

  1. subsacrists
  2. subsagittal
  3. subsagittate
  4. Subsahara
  5. subsaharan
  6. Subsaharan Africa
  7. subsaharans
  8. subsale
  9. subsales
  10. subsalicylate
  11. subsalicylates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Subsaharan Africa (page history and authors); sub-Saharan Africa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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