Negroland

Also known as Nigrita, Nigritia

thumb|300px|A 1729 map titled: "NEGROLAND and GUINEA, with the European settlements. Explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark & c. By Herman Moll|H. Moll Geographer"

In the Vinony graph

Vinony's link graph records 98 inbound references to Negroland, and connects out to Sahara, Middle East and North Africa and Pepper Coast.

It is catalogued under topics including Historical regions of West Africa and History of Africa.

Vinony links it to 13 Wikipedia language editions.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: area
Continent: Africa
Shares border with: Guinea
Said to be same as: Sudan

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thumb|300px|A 1729 map titled: "NEGROLAND and GUINEA, with the European settlements. Explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark & c. By Herman Moll|H. Moll Geographer"

Negroland, Nigrita, or Nigritia, is an archaic term in European mapping, referring to Europeans' descriptions of West Africa as an area populated with negroes.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Negroland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.