sub-Saharan
adjective
sub-Sa·ha·ran
ˌsəb-sə-ˈher-ən 
-ˈhär-
: of, relating to, or being the part of Africa south of the Sahara
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Between 2000 and 2023, the percentage of people in sub-Saharan Africa who knew their HIV status increased from 5.7% to 86%.
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Jennifer Lotito, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Priests from sub-Saharan Africa have also played a notable role in shaping conservative Catholic views in the United States.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
Attitudes among the Spanish toward their sole sub-Saharan possession did much to empower the violently anti-colonial protests which would come in the 1960s, as Enrique Okenve Martínez explains in a 2016 issue of Afro-Hispanic Review.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Apr. 2025
That’s especially relevant for sub-Saharan Africa, which is expected to double its population by 2100.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2025
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Jennifer Lotito, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Priests from sub-Saharan Africa have also played a notable role in shaping conservative Catholic views in the United States.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
Attitudes among the Spanish toward their sole sub-Saharan possession did much to empower the violently anti-colonial protests which would come in the 1960s, as Enrique Okenve Martínez explains in a 2016 issue of Afro-Hispanic Review.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 18 Apr. 2025
That’s especially relevant for sub-Saharan Africa, which is expected to double its population by 2100.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Sub-Saharan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sub-Saharan. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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