West Africa

     Western Africa (as the UN sees it)      Maghreb

West Africa or Western Africa is the western part of Africa. According to the United Nations (UN), West Africa has seventeen countries:

Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana

Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Morocco

Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo West Africa Media Karte Mitgliedstaaten der West African Football Union Mansa Musa depicted holding a gold nugget from a 1395 map of Africa and Europe 13th-century Africa – Map of the main trade routes and states, kingdoms and empires. West Africa c. 1875 French in West Africa c. 1913 A rhinoceros in Bandia Nature Reserve, Senegal. Credit: Corine REZEL. African bush elephants in Yankari National Park, Nigeria Deforestation in Nigeria.