Literal Translation of Country Names: Africa

Name the country when given its literal translation.

Source: https://theculturetrip.com/europe/articles/this-enlightening-map-shows-the-literal-meaning-of-every-countrys-name/

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Hint	Answer
Hooded cloak	Gabon
Land of Maurice van Nassau	Mauritius
Land by the water	Togo
Land of Tunis	Tunisia
Land of Ngola	Angola
Land of flames	Malawi
Holy land	Madagascar
Land of the great river	Zambia
Temple of the Soul of Ptah	Egypt
Land of burnt faces	Ethiopia
Southern country of the blacks	South Sudan
Green cape	Cape Verde
Land of Tanganika and Zanzibar	Tanzania
Hippopotamus	Mali
Land of the Red Sea	Eritrea
Land of Soma	Somalia
Mountain of whiteness	Kenya
Black Bissau	Guinea-Bissau
Country of the blacks	Sudan
Land of the large lake	Chad
Lion mountains	Sierra Leone
Islands of the moon	Comoros
Kingdom of Swazis	Eswatini
Republic in the center of Africa	Central African Republic
Democratic republic of the mountains	Democratic Republic of the Congo
The islands	Algeria

Hint	Answer
Ivory coast	Ivory Coast
Land of the black men	Guinea
The king's land	Ghana
Republic of Séchelles	Seychelles
Land of the Niger river	Nigeria
Land of black men on the Equator	Equatorial Guinea
Our canoe	Senegal
River of rivers	Niger
Land of Musa Al Biq	Mozambique
Land of honest men	Burkina Faso
Free country	Liberia
The far west	Morocco
Kingdom of mountains	Republic of the Congo
Land of the Sotho	Lesotho
The river	Gambia
The plateau	Djibouti
Land of the Libu	Libya
Land of the Mauri	Mauritania
Saint Thomas and Prince	São Tomé and Príncipe
River of prawns	Cameroon
Land of the Ganda people	Uganda
Land of argument	Benin
Stone enclosure	Zimbabwe
Those who went away	Botswana
The vast place	Namibia