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    West Africa

    Westernmost region of the African continent

    West Africa, also called Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. The population of West Africa is estimated at 419 million people as of 2021, and at 381,981,000 as of 2017, of which 189,672,000 were female and 192,309,000 male. The region is demographically and economically one of the fastest growing on the African continent. Early history in West Africa includes a number of prominent regional powers that dominated different parts of both the coastal and internal trade networks, such as the Mali and Gao Empires. Wikipedia

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    West Africa, also called Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).
  3. britannica.com

    The region may be divided into several broad physiographic regions. The northern portion of western Africa is composed of a broad band of semiarid terrain, called the western Sudan, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean on the west to the area of Lake Chad on the east, a distance of about 2,500 miles (4,000 km). It is largely a plateau of modest elevation and borders the Sahara (desert) on the ...
  4. britannica.com

    Africa - Sahel, Sahara, Coast: Western Africa contains a remarkable diversity of ethnic groups. It can be divided into two zones, the Sudanic savanna and the Guinea Coast. The savanna area stretches for some 3,000 miles (4,800 km) east to west along the southern Saharan borderland. Its vegetation consists of extensive grasslands and few forests, and little rain falls there.
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    Satellite imagery of West Africa.. West Africa is west of an imagined north-south axis lying close to 10° east longitude. [18] The Atlantic Ocean forms the western and southern borders of the West African region. [18] The northern border is the Sahara Desert, with the Ranishanu Bend generally considered the northernmost part of the region. [19] The eastern border is less precise, with some ...
  6. newworldencyclopedia.org

    Western Africa is the 5 million square mile area located in the westernmost region of the African continent. It is considered a geographic entity based on shared cultural and linguistic traits throughout the region. Though the terms West Africa and Western Africa are often used interchangeably, from a political and economic standpoint, the term West Africa is generally defined as consisting of ...
  7. pressbooks.pub

    The region of West Africa includes the southern portion of the bulge of the continent, which extends westward to the Atlantic Ocean. This region is bisected by the African Transition Zone, which borders the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. The main physical features include the Sahara Desert and the Niger River.
  8. en.wikivoyage.org

    1 Abidjan — the largest city in Cote d'Ivoire, still a West African nightlife hotspot, despite the country's political instability; 2 Abuja — the purpose-built government capital of Nigeria is attractive, and remarkably safe!; 3 Accra — an incoherent jumble of a city, the capital of Ghana, and one of the most accessible cities in West Africa for travellers

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