Southern Africa is far away. - English example sentence

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AlanF_US October 22, 2021, edited October 22, 2021 October 22, 2021 at 1:36:04 PM UTC, edited October 22, 2021 at 2:27:00 PM UTC

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> The South of Africa is far away.

Better:

Southern Africa is far away.

https://books.google.com/ngrams...Africa%3B%2Cc0

It may not be that "The South of Africa is far away" is incorrect, precisely, but the capitalization is a little old-fashioned, and I can't think of another place, other than "the South of France" (which seems to be the exception) that uses this wording. The Wikipedia page for "Southern Africa" does not give "the s/South of Africa" as an alternative name, in contrast to the Wikipedia page for "Southern France", which does list "the South of France".