Kudancin Afirka
Kudancin Afirka shi ne yankin kudu maso yammacin Afirka. Babu ma'ana daya da aka amince da ita, sune wasu gungun kasashe kamar su da geoscheme na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, Ƙungiyar Cigaban Afirka ta Kudu ta gwamnatocin Afirka, da yanayin muhalli dangane da halayen ƙasar.

Ƙamar yadda kimiyyar yanayi na zahiri ta bayyana ta, Kudancin Afirka gida ne ga yawancin yankuna ruwa; kogin Zambezi ne ya fi fice. Zambezi yana gudana daga kusurwar arewa maso yammacin Zambia da yammacin Angola zuwa Tekun Indiya a gabar tekun Mozambik. A kan hanyarta, tana gudana a kan babban rafin Victoria da ke kan iyakar Zambia da Zimbabwe. Victoria Falls na daya daga cikin manyan magudanan ruwa a duniya kuma babban wurin yawon bude ido a yankin. 

Kudancin Afirka ya haɗa yanayi mai zafi da yanayi mai sanyi, tare da Tropic of Capricorn ya wuce har zuwa tsakiyar yankin, ya kuma rarraba yankin zuwa wurare masu zafi da wurare masu sanyi. Kasashen da aka fi la'akari dasu a matsayin Kudancin Afirka sun hada da Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Afirka ta Kudu, Zambia, da Zimbabwe. A cikin tarihin gargajiya, ba'a cika sanya tsibirin Madagascar acikin yankin ba saboda bambancin yare da al'adunsu.

Ma'ana da amfani 
A kimiyyar yanayi na zahiri, ƙayyadaddun yanki na yankin suna yankuna na kudancin afirka daga kogin Cunene da Zambezi: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibiya, Afirka ta Kudu, Zimbabwe, da ɓangaren Mozambique wanda ke kudu da kogin Zambezi. Ana amfani da wannan ma'anar sau da yawa a Afirka ta Kudu don ilimin kimiyyar halitta musamman a cikin littattafan jagora irin su Roberts' Birds of Southern Africa, the Southern African Bird Atlas Project, da Mammals of the Southern African Subregion. Ba a amfani da shi a fagen siyasa, tattalin arziki, ko yanayin yanayin ɗan adam saboda ma'anar ta raba Mozambique gida biyu.

Tsarin Majalisar Dinkin Duniya na yankin da SACU 
A tsarin geoscheme na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya kan Afirka, jihohi biyar ne suka kunshi Kudancin Afirka: 

 
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Wannan ma'anar ta kunshi Comoros, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Réunion, Tsibiran da ke yashe a Tekun Indiya (a matsayin wani yanki na Kudancin Faransa ), Zambia, da Zimbabwe a Gabashin Afirka, Angola a Afirka ta Tsakiya (ko Afirka ta Tsakiya), da Saint Helena, Ascension zuwa sama, da Tristan da Cunha (a ƙarƙashin sunan Saint Helena) a Yammacin Afirka, a maimakon haka. Wasu taswirorin duniya sun haɗa da Malawi, Zambia, da Zimbabwe a Afirka ta Tsakiya maimakon Kudancin ko Gabashin Afirka.

Kungiyar Al'adu na Kudancin Afirka, wacce aka kirkira a shekarar 1969, ta kuma kunshi jihohi biyar a yankin Kudancin Afirka na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya.

Membobin SADC 
An kafa kungiyar raya kasashen kudancin Afirka (SADC) a shekarar 1980 domin assasa hadin gwiwa a yankin. ta hada da: 

 
 
 
 
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Amfani na gama-gari 
Baya ga yankunan Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, waɗannan ƙasashe da yankuna galibi ana haɗa su a karkashin Kudancin Afirka:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean
 
 

Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo gabaɗaya tana cikin Afirka ta Tsakiya, yayin da Seychelles da Tanzaniya anfi alaƙanta su da gabashin Afirka, amma waɗannan ƙasashe uku a wasu lokuta ana haɗa su karkashin yankin Kudancin Afirka, kasancewarsu membobin SADC.

Yanayin kasa 

Ƙasar Kudancin Afirka sun rarrabu, kama daga daji  da ciyayi zuwa hamada. Yankin yana da ƙananan yankunan bakin teku, da tsaunuka.

Dangane da albarkatun kasa, yankin yana da mafi girman arzikin albarkatun platinum a duniya da kuma nau'ukan platinum, chromium, vanadium, da cobalt, da uranium, zinariya, jan karfe, titanium, baƙin ƙarfe, manganese, azurfa, beryllium, da lu'u-lu'u.

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