Etymology

global south

Today it means: A region predominantly composed of developing countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, regarded as half of a socioeconomic and political divide opposite to the Global North. Full definition →

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The story

First used in a political sense by Carl Oglesby in 1969.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.