What is West Africa?
[[Image:LocationWesternAfrica.png|thumb| {{legend|#00a000|Western Africa (as the UN sees it)}} {{legend|#00ff00|[[Maghreb]]}}]]'''West Africa''' or '''Western Africa''' is the western part of [[Africa]]. According to the [[United Nations]] (UN), West Africa has seventeen countries: {{col-begin|width=}} {{col-break}} * [[Benin]] * [[Burkina Faso]] * [[Cape Verde]] * [[Côte d'Ivoire]] * [[The Gambia|Gambia]] * [[Ghana]] {{col-break}} * [[Guinea]] * [[Guinea-Bissau]] * [[Liberia]] * [[Mali]] * [[Mauritania]] * [[Morocco]] {{col-break}} * [[Niger]] * [[Nigeria]] * [[Senegal]] * [[Sierra Leone]] * [[Togo]] {{col-end}} [[Category:Regions of Africa]]