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2. West Africa - Wikipedia

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   West Africa, also known as 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. West African Games - Wikipedia

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   The West African Games (French: Jeux d'Afrique de l'Ouest) was an international multi-sport event between the nations of West Africa, which was held in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977. Opened on 27 August by Nigeria's head of state, Olusegun Obasanjo, ten countries took part in the eight-day competition. [1] A total of eleven sports were contested. [2]

4. West Region (Cameroon) - Wikipedia

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   The West Region (French: Région de l'Ouest) is 14,000 km 2 of territory located in the central-western portion of the Republic of Cameroon.It borders the Northwest Region to the northwest, the Adamawa Region to the northeast, the Centre Region to the southeast, the Littoral Region to the southwest, and the Southwest Region to the west.

5. Mali - Wikipedia

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   Mali is a landlocked country in West Africa, located southwest of Algeria. It lies between latitudes 10° and 25°N , and longitudes 13°W and 5°E . Mali borders Algeria to the north-northeast , Niger to the east , Burkina Faso to the south-east , Ivory Coast to the south , Guinea to the south-west , and Senegal to the west and Mauritania to ...

6. Negroland - Wikipedia

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   A 1729 map titled: "NEGROLAND and GUINEA, with the European settlements. Explaining what belongs to England, Holland, Denmark & c. By H. Moll Geographer". Negroland, Nigrita, [1] or Nigritia, [2] is an archaic term in European mapping, referring to Europeans' descriptions of West Africa as an area populated with negroes.

7. Outline of Mali - Wikipedia

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   Africa. North Africa; West Africa; partially within the Sahara Desert; Time zone: Coordinated Universal Time UTC+00; Extreme points of Mali High: Hombori Tondo 1,155 m (3,789 ft) Low: Senegal River 23 m (75 ft) Land boundaries: 7,243 km Mauritania 2,237 km Algeria 1,376 km Burkina Faso 1,000 km Guinea 858 km Niger 821 km Cote d'Ivoire 532 km

8. History of West Africa - Wikipedia

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   In the Scramble for Africa in the 1880s the Europeans started to colonise the inland of West Africa, they had previously mostly controlled trading ports along the coasts and rivers. Following World War II, campaigns for independence sprung up across West Africa, most notably in Ghana under the Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972). After a ...

9. Upper Guinean forests - Wikipedia

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   The Upper Guinean forests is a tropical seasonal forest region of West Africa.The Upper Guinean forests extend from Guinea and Sierra Leone in the west through Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana to Togo in the east, and a few hundred kilometers inland from the Atlantic coast.