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Westernmost Region Of African Continent
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Westernmost Region Of African Continent
West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:
Countries of this Region:
Benin
Burkina
Cape-Verde
Gambia
Ivory
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra
Togo
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