West Africa

     Western Africa (as the UN sees it)      Maghreb

West Africa or Western Africa is the west part of the Africa. According to the United Nations (UN), West Africa has about 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