List of fictional African countries


This is a list of fictional countries that are set somewhere in the continent of Africa.

A

  • Africa: Africa is portrayed as one country in various works, typically comprising an expansive and sparsely populated jungle or savanna.
  • African Confederation: A future African country that includes present-day Somalia, it is the birthplace of Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
  • Afrinia: An African country used in World Bank training exercises.
  • Afromacoland: An African country in the novel Chief the Honourable Minister by T. M. Aluko
  • Azania: An African country from Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief but with earlier origins in Roman histories.
  • Abuddin: A Middle East country in the series Tyrant.
  • Free Republic of Aburĩria: An African country ruled by a dictator known only as the "Ruler" in the novel Wizard of the Crow by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

    B

  • Babar's Kingdom: from children's book, a country of intelligent bipedal elephants.
  • Bahari: From the CBS television series, Scorpion, a small north African nation under a dictatorship. The nation is a former Nazi German colony and there are several Nazi German military bases located in the deserts of the country.
  • Balaika: A fictional Central African country in the 2014 BBC Radio 4 Play "When The Laughter Stops", written by Sibusiso Mamba, co-created with Daliso Chaponda and with additional material by Ava Vidal. In the play two stand-up comedians get into trouble in a country that is in the process of deciding whether homosexuality should be a capital offence.
  • Balic: A fictional African country featured in the Japanese anime television series Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid.
  • Bangalla: From The Phantom comic strip. The Phantom's base lies in the deep woods of this central African nation.
  • Bapetikosweti: The "homeland" state in which the South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys was the South African ambassador.
  • Beninia: From John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar
  • Birani: An African nation featured in the film The Gods Must Be Crazy. Located near Namibia and Angola. Has a Banana Forest at a place called Dumgase.
  • Bocamo: A gold-producing West African state from the Mission: Impossible TV episode "Kitara". Renowned as a particularly brutal practitioner of apartheid.
  • Bonande: A West African country in the film La Nuit de la vérité.
  • Bongo Congo: An African kingdom in the animated series King Leonardo and His Short Subjects
  • Bora-Baru: A fictional country located inside Tanzania in the Marvel Comics universe.
  • Botswanga: An African country in the film Le Crocodile du Botswanga.
  • Bozatta: An African nation from Scorpion.
  • Bulungi: A country located south of Côte d'Ivoire and southeast of Liberia featured in an article by satirical news group The Onion. In the article, the United States' "ambassador" to Bulungi is accused of making the country up. Bulungi's capital city is Yabba-Dabba.
  • Buranda: An African country in the BBC comedy series Yes Minister, formerly known as "British Equatorial Africa"
  • Burunda: A country located in Southern Africa in the Marvel Comics universe.
  • Butua: An African country of cannibals in the novel Aline and Valcour by the Marquis de Sade.

    C

  • Carbombya: A North African country mentioned in the Transformers series, ruled by "king of kings" Abdul Fakkadi as the "Socialist Democratic Federated Republic of Carbombya". The portrayal of Arabs in the episode featuring Carbombya led Casey Kasem, who was Lebanese-American, to leave the original animated series.
  • Canaan: An African nation bordering Wakanda in the Marvel Comics universe.
  • Claw Island: An African nation occupying the island of Madagascar as portrayed in a video by The Onion about the United States sending US$3 billion worth of aid to Andorra.
  • Clonka Minkus: An African country created by British animator David Firth for his series The News Hasn't Happened Yet.

    D

  • Dahomalia: An African nation from Stand on Zanzibar
  • Democratic Republic of Dahum: An African nation from James Bond novel Solo
  • Federal Republic of Darrar: A country in the Horn of Africa based on Ethiopia in the novel Borderlines by Michela Wrong.
  • North Darrar: A country in the Horn of Africa based on Eritrea in the novel Borderlines by Michela Wrong. The capital city is Lira. The country neighbours the Federal Republic of Darrar and has fought a war against it over a border dispute based on the Eritrean–Ethiopian War.

    E

  • Equatorial Kundu: West African republic originally depicted on the Aaron Sorkin series The West Wing, and later on The Newsroom and IZombie .
  • Equatorial Uqbar Orbis: Dictatorship in Africa originally depicted in Better Call Saul. The country appears to be a reference to Jorge Luis Borges’s short story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.

    F

  • Federal Republic of South Africa: A South African state mentioned in the 1991 novel Vortex, by Larry Bond and Patrick Larkin. It is the successor state to the apartheid-era "Republic of South Africa" and is established after a civil war takes place in South Africa over the fate of apartheid in the early 1990s; its capital is Johannesburg after having been moved there from Pretoria due to the latter city's negative association with the apartheid regime and the subsequent civil war.

    G

  • Gafir: A fictional nation situated at the cross roads of the red sea, littered with desert, once under British rule until the year 1950, was created as an April Fools' Day joke as Instagram’s country of the day in 2018.
  • Gbe Republic: A small nation in West Africa featured in the Hearts of Iron IV mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe.
  • Genosha: An island nation which was established as a mutant homeland in the Marvel Comics universe.
  • Ghalea: A small African nation whose pro-Western government is key to stability in the area, from the Mission: Impossible episode "The Money Machine".
  • Ghudaza: A country bordering Wakanda in the Marvel Comics universe.
  • Gigargios, A North African Kingdom from the Gigargios series of novels by author Marcin Franczak that face challenges of invasions of ancient empires such as Persia and Rome.
  • Gindra: A small nation in Central Africa formerly the home of Outer Heaven in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel.
  • Gorilla City: A city in the DC Comics universe that is inhabited by sapient primates.
  • Gorotoland: An African republic and site of Cold War conflict in Allen Drury's novel Capable of Honor.
  • Great Islam Nation: A theocratic state which extends on Middle-East and Africa in the two novels Wang by French author Pierre Bordage.
  • Guadec: A country in an episode of Spooks. Led by reformist President Manu Baffong.
  • Gwinalia: A country in the PBS show Chocolate.

    H

  • Halwan: An African nation bordering Algeria and Libya in the Marvel Comics universe.

    I

  • Imaya: Small Central African country located in between Nigeria and Niger in the Marvel Comics universe.
  • Interzone: A fictionalized version of Tangier in William S. Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch.
  • Ishmaelia: A fictional African country from the novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh.
  • Ishtar: A fictional country bordering Morocco from the 1987 film Ishtar.

    J

  • Republic of the Jola: A country located in West Africa featured in the Hearts of Iron IV mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe.

    K

  • Kalubya: A North African country corresponding to the location of Libya in Operation Thunderbolt arcade game
  • Kalya: A West African country in the novel The Zinzin Road by Fletcher Knebel. Capital city: Ft. Paul.
  • Kamanga: A Southern African country between Namibia and Mozambique in the novel Tenth Man Down by Chris Ryan. Ruled from the poverty-stricken capital of Mulongwe, Kamanga is the very model of post-colonial corruption, nepotism, and greed. The territory, once a British possession, is now suffering from an AIDS epidemic, while poaching goes unchecked during a brutal civil war. Uranium, diamonds, and bauxite are key resources, although they remain in the hands of the European-descended elite. Kamanga uses the Kwacha as its national currency. This "Kwacha" is a fictional currency, but it has the same name as the Malawian kwacha and the Zambian kwacha.
  • Kambawe: The setting of Tom Stoppard's 1978 play Night and Day
  • Kambezi: Southern African country occurring in several MacGyver episodes, located somewhere near Zimbabwe and home to a population of black rhinos, a protected species approaching rapid extinction thanks to South African poachers. Kambezi is also in fact a military dictatorship, and relies heavily on the smuggling of dagga. Kambezi was later used in season 3 of Blindspot, but was a Central African monarchy at war with its neighbor and seeking control of a pipeline.
  • Kangan: An African nation in the novel Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
  • Katanga: An African country, neighboring Sierra Leone, in Frederick Forsyth's The Dogs of War
  • Kenyopia: belligerent African nation in Totally Spies! TV series attempting to conquer its fictional neighbor Lyrobia with its King Milanalwayskumar
  • Kharun: A country that Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg visits in the second season of Borgen.
  • Khokarsa: An ancient African empire that serves as the primary setting for Philip José Farmer's Khokarsa series.
  • Kijuju: An African country in Resident Evil 5, which is subject to viral experimentation.
  • Kinjanja: An African country in the 1994 film A Good Man in Africa, starring Sean Connery.
  • Kivukiland: An African kingdom in the 2001 South African film Mr Bones by Leon Schuster.
  • Kôr: An African country in the novel She by H. Rider Haggard.
  • Kukuanaland: An African country in the novel King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard.
  • Kush: An African country from John Updike's 1978 novel The Coup.