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