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western Africa, region of the western African continent comprising the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
West Africa, broadly defined to include the western portion of the Maghreb (Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia), occupies an area in excess of 6,140,000 km 2, or approximately one-fifth of Africa. The vast majority of this land is plains lying less than 300 meters above sea level, though isolated high points exist in numerous states ...
This map shows governmental boundaries, countries and their capitals in West Africa. Countries of West Africa: Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Senegal, Cape Verde, Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Niger, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe and Togo.
Map of the 16 countries of West Africa. West Africa includes 16 countries and one dependency. Nigeria is the most populous country in both West African and Africa as a whole. Cabo Verde is West Africa's least populous country. About 411 million people live in West Africa.
West Africa is the most densely populated area of Africa. It is in many ways both the continent's most difficult place for travel and potentially its most rewarding. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map.
Explore the West African region with our interactive Map of West Africa, featuring countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal. Discover the diverse geography, rich history, and cultural heritage of this vibrant area.
Political Map of West Africa. View of Makoko, a neighbourhood of Nigeria's capital Lagos, a megalopolis and the most populous urban agglomeration on the African continent, 'home' to 22 million people. Image: Oritsetsemaye Jemide.
West-central Africa may be considered as an eastern extension of western Africa: in the north are the savannas of Chad, the Central African Republic, Sudan, and South Sudan, stretching to the Nile River, and in the south is the largely forested area of the Congo River basin.
Learn the countries, capitals and major cities of West Africa with an interactive map, and then play our online West Africa geography game. Free-to-use and fun students' activity for learning West African human geography.
Situated on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in western Africa, Ghana is bordered to the northwest and north by Burkina Faso, to the east by Togo, to the south by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west by Côte d’Ivoire.