The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SUDAN which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 1984.
African region crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
SUDAN | 29 % | 5 |
RHODESIA | 6 % | 8 |
ERITREA | 6 % | 7 |
RIF | 6 % | 3 |
RAND | 6 % | 4 |
CONGO | 6 % | 5 |
ORANGEFREESTATE | 6 % | 15 |
SOUDAN | 6 % | 6 |
SOMALILAND | 6 % | 10 |
SAHARA | 6 % | 6 |
NUBIA | 6 % | 5 |
NIGER | 6 % | 5 |
UPPERVOLTA | 6 % | 10 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: African region
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- sub-saharafrica
- black africa
- sudan
- sahara
- africa
- africans
- congo
- eritrea
- niger
- nubia
- rand
- rhodesia
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SUDAN
- Khartoum country
- Khartoum's country
- Ethiopia's neighbor
- Red Sea borderer
- Khartoum's land
- Land of Khartoum
- Saharan land
- Africa's largest country
- Al-Bashir's land
- Kenya neighbor
More clues leading to the result RHODESIA
- Its capital was Salisbury
- Zimbabwe, once
- Zambia and Zimbabwe, once
- Zimbabwe, for most of the 1970s
- Botswana neighbor, formerly
- Onetime Botswana neighbor
- Zimbabwe, formerly
- Zimbabwe's former name
- Region in South Africa.
- Region of South Africa.
More clues leading to the result ERITREA
- Asmera is its capital
- Red Sea republic
- Its capital is Asmara
- Red Sea nation
- Red Sea state
- Neighbor of Djibouti
- Djibouti neighbor
- African nation since 1993
- Asmara is its capital
- Country with a camel in its coat of arms
More clues leading to the result RIF
- Berber language
- Downsize, esp. militarily
- Noted nonprofit literacy org.
- Discharge from military service, slangily
- Discharge from the military, informally
- Berber home
- Moroccan region
- Staff paring, initially
- Child-reading program, for short
- Corp. cutback
More clues leading to the result RAND
- Author Ayn
- Ayn, the writer
- First name in maps
- Half a mapmaking team
- McNally's partner
- McNally's map partner
- Sally with the fans
- "Atlas Shrugged" author Ayn
- See 54 Down
- Author of "The Fountainhead"
More clues leading to the result CONGO
- Its capital is Brazzaville
- Zaire neighbor
- 1980 best-seller by Michael Crichton
- Kinshasa's river
- "Heart of Darkness" setting
- River through Kinshasa
- African river
- River explored by Henry Stanley
- Nation once known as Zaire
- 1980 Michael Crichton novel
More clues leading to the result ORANGEFREESTATE
- Its capital was Bloemfontein
- Former Boer republic
- Former name of the province whose capital is Bloemfontein
- 19th-century Boer republic
- Its capital is Bloemfontein.
- Part of U.S.A.
- Part of the U. S. A.
- Where Bloemfontein is.
- African region.
- African area.
More clues leading to the result SOUDAN
- Khartoum's land, French style
- Area between Dakar and Timbuktu: Fr. spelling.
- African region.
- French Legion locale.
More clues leading to the result SOMALILAND
More clues leading to the result SAHARA
- African desert
- Arid expanse
- It includes most of Libya
- Largest desert
- Most of Libya
- Desert region
- World's largest desert
- World's third-largest desert
- African sands
- African expanse
More clues leading to the result NUBIA
- Ancient African state
- Nile region home to early African kingdoms
- Nile Valley region
- Egypt-Sudan region
- Region along the Nile
- Region of Egypt and Sudan
- Area north of Khartoum
- Ancient kingdom
- Ancient northern African region
- Ancient Nile Valley kingdom
More clues leading to the result NIGER
- River of Africa
- Where the young lady who rode a tiger came from
- Neighbor of Libya and Chad
- Tiger-riding limerick lady's country
- Landlocked African nation
- Burkina Faso neighbor
- Mali neighbor
- African river
- River through Mali
- Neighbor of Chad