Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau is a small country on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, a low, watery land of mangrove creeks, rivers, and the scattered Bijagos…
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The Gambia
The Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, a narrow ribbon of land following the course of the Gambia River for some 480 kilometres…
Liberia
Liberia is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Africa with a history unlike any other on the continent. It was founded in the early nineteenth…
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, a land of beaches, rainforest, and one of the world's largest natural harbours. Its…
Guinea
Guinea is a country on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, a land of green highlands, savanna, and forest that is sometimes called the water tower of…
Togo
Togo is a small, narrow country in West Africa, a thin strip of land running inland from a short Atlantic coastline to the dry savanna of the north.…
Benin
Benin is a narrow country in West Africa, stretching from a short Atlantic coastline northward to the dry savanna of the Sahel. It was the seat of…
Niger
Niger is a vast, landlocked country in West Africa, named after the great river that crosses its southwestern corner, though most of its territory…
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, in the dry savanna and Sahel south of the Sahara. Its name, adopted after independence, means…
Mali
Mali is a large, landlocked country in West Africa, much of it lying within the Sahara Desert and the semi-arid Sahel, with the life-giving Niger…
Senegal
Senegal is a country at the westernmost point of mainland Africa, where the continent reaches into the Atlantic toward the Americas. A largely flat,…
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, known in French as Cote d'Ivoire, is a country in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea. Its name comes from the trade in elephant ivory…
Ghana
Ghana is a country in West Africa, set on the Gulf of Guinea where the continent meets the Atlantic. A land of tropical forests, savanna, and golden…
Nigeria
Nigeria is a country in West Africa and the most populous nation on the continent, often called the Giant of Africa. A land of great rivers, tropical…