West Africa

  Western Africa (as the UN sees it)

West Africa or Western Africa is the most western region 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

• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone