West Africa

West Africa or Western Africa is the western part of Africa. According to the United Nations (UN), West Africa has seventeen countries:

  Western Africa (as the UN sees it)

  Maghreb

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cape Verde
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Gambia
• Ghana

• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Liberia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Morocco

• Niger
• Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Togo