West Africa

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geographical region region

West Africa is a region on the western coast of the African continent, historically significant for its role in trans-Saharan and Atlantic trade, diverse cultures and languages, and complex precolonial and colonial histories.

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Statements (111)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region → region →
abbreviation	ECOWAS region →
borders	Atlantic Ocean → Central Africa → Gulf of Guinea → North Africa → Sahel →
colonizedBy	France → Germany → Portugal → Spain → United Kingdom →
containsCountry	Benin → Burkina Faso → Cameroon → Cape Verde → Chad → Côte d’Ivoire → Equatorial Guinea → Ghana → Guinea → Guinea-Bissau → Liberia → Mali → Mauritania → Niger → Nigeria → Senegal → Sierra Leone → São Tomé and Príncipe → The Gambia → Togo →
continent	Africa →
hadHistoricEmpire	Ashanti Empire → Ghana Empire → Mali Empire → Oyo Empire → Songhai Empire →
hadHistoricState	Kingdom of Benin → Kingdom of Dahomey → Wolof Empire →
hasBiome	savanna → tropical rainforest →
hasClimate	semi-arid climate → tropical climate →
hasCulturalHeritage	griot tradition → kente cloth → talking drum →
hasCurrency	West African CFA franc →
hasCurrencyUnion	West African Economic and Monetary Union →
hasEthnicGroup	Akan people → Ewe people → Fulani people → Hausa people → Igbo people → Mandinka people → Songhai people → Wolof people → Yoruba people →
hasLanguageFamily	Afroasiatic languages → Niger–Congo languages → Nilo-Saharan languages →
hasLinguaFranca	Arabic language → English language → French language → Hausa language → Portuguese language →
hasMajorCity	Abidjan → Abuja → Accra → Bamako → Banjul → Conakry → Cotonou → Dakar → Freetown → Lagos → Lomé → Monrovia → Niamey → Nouakchott → Ouagadougou → Praia →
hasMajorRiver	Gambia River → Niger River → Senegal River → Volta River →
hasNaturalResource	bauxite → cocoa → diamonds → gold → oil →
hasRegionalBank	West African Development Bank →
hasRegionalOrganization	Economic Community of West African States →
hasReligion	Christianity → Islam → traditional African religions →
hasSubregion	Lower Guinea → Sahel → Upper Guinea →
historicallyKnownFor	Atlantic slave trade → gold trade → salt trade → trans-Saharan trade →
locatedIn	Eastern Hemisphere → Northern Hemisphere → Western Hemisphere →
partOf	Africa →
timeZoneIncludes	Greenwich Mean Time → West Africa Time →

Referenced by (208)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Abidjan → Accra → Ashanti Empire → Banjul → Bayero University Kano → Benin → British Gold Coast → British West Africa → Burkina Faso → Cap-Vert Peninsula → Cheikh Anta Diop University → Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria → Cotonou → Dawanau grain market → Dutch Gold Coast → Ekiti → Elobey Grande → Federal Capital Territory → Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria → Freetown → French West Africa → Gambia River → Ghana → Ghana Empire → Gold Coast → Guinea → Guinea-Bissau → Guinean forests of West Africa → Hausa-Fulani → Igbo → Kingdom of Benin → Lagos State → Liberia → Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport → Monrovia → Niamey → Niger → Niger River → Northern Nigeria → Oyo Empire → Presidential Palace of Senegal → Senegal River → Sokoto Caliphate → Southern Nigeria → The Gambia → Togo → Trust Territory of Cameroon under British administration → Trust Territory of Togoland under British administration → Trust Territory of Togoland under French administration → Yola → Yoruba →	locatedIn
9th National Assembly (2019–2023) → Akan people → Bamako → Brava → Cameroon → Cameroonian Pidgin English → Cape Verdean escudo → Cocoa House → Conakry → Côte d'Ivoire → Dakar Grand Mosque → Eco → Elmina Castle → French → French West African franc → Fula language → Fulani → Fulfulde → Ga language → Ghana national football team → Ghanaian cedi → IFAN Museum of African Arts → Kingdom of Dahomey → Liberia national football team → Liberian dollar → Lomé → Mali → Mali Empire → Mandinka ("Upper Guinea") → Mandinka people → Mano River Union → Mobil Oil Nigeria → Moshood Abiola National Stadium → New Yam Festival → Nigerian Pidgin → Nigerian naira → Oyo → Senegal → Sierra Leone → Songhai Empire → Songhai people → Tin Can Island Port → Usman dan Fodio → Volta River → West African CFA franc → West African languages → Wolof → Wolof Empire → Yoruba people → kente cloth →	region
Apapa Port → Cheikh Anta Diop University → ECA Subregional Office for West Africa → ECOWAS → ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development → ECOWAS Community Court of Justice → ECOWAS Parliament → G5 Sahel → Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research → Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat → Treaty of Lagos → UN country teams in West Africa → UNMEER → United Nations Mission in Liberia → United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire → University College Hospital, Ibadan → University of Ibadan → University of Port Harcourt → WAFU → West African Development Bank → West African Economic and Monetary Union →	regionServed
Akan → Cape Verdean Creole → Hausa → Kwa languages → Mandinka → Pulaar → Songhay languages →	spokenIn
Benue–Congo languages → Gur languages → Mande languages → West Chadic →	geographicDistribution
Kano → Lower Guinea → Niger Delta ("Guinea Coast") → Saint-Louis, Senegal →	partOf
Afro-Antiguans and Barbudans → Afro-Trinidadian and Tobagonian → Afro-Vincentians →	ancestralOrigin
Treaty of El Pardo → Treaty of Paris (1763) →	affectedRegion
Afrobeat → Afrobeats →	culturalOrigin
Guttera → Oryza glaberrima →	distribution
Africa → West Africa ("Upper Guinea") →	hasSubregion
Kurmi Market → Western Nigeria →	locatedInRegion
Bioko Island → FAO Major Fishing Area 34 →	locatedOffCoastOf
Bight of Benin → Bight of Biafra →	locatedOnCoastOf
Atlantic slave trade → Maliki school →	mainRegion
Oryza glaberrima → Pan troglodytes →	nativeTo
Dutch West India Company → Royal Navy West Africa Squadron enforcement ("West African coast") →	operatedIn
Bambara → Hausa people →	primaryRegion
Dakar → Idoma people →	subregion
Boko alphabet → Greenwich Mean Time ("West Africa (some countries)") →	usedIn
Mauritanian ouguiya → West Africa Time →	usedInRegion
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb →	activeIn
United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response →	appliesToJurisdiction
Ijaw languages →	arealRegion
Atlantic–Congo languages →	areSpokenIn
Central Africa →	borderedBy
Northwest Africa →	bordersRegion
Michael Boulos →	businessRegion
Oryza glaberrima →	domesticatedIn
2014–2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak →	economicImpactRegion
Gulf of Guinea →	economicImportanceFor
The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy →	focusesOn
Office of the Special Envoy for the Sahel →	focusesOnRegion
Maliki →	geographicalDistribution
National Museum of African Art →	hasCollectionScope
Regla de Ocha →	hasCulturalOrigin
Middle Passage →	hasLocation
Atlantic coast ("West African coast") →	hasPart
Francophone Africa →	hasRegionalSubarea
Patrice →	hasUsageRegion
WAFU →	headquartersRegion
Africa Rocks →	includesSpeciesFrom
Afro-Surinamese ("West African cultures") →	influencedBy
Atlantic world →	involvesRegion
Abidjan →	isOneOfLargestCitiesIn
Tommy Atkins mango →	isWidelyGrownIn
Hausa people →	linguaFrancaInRegion
Dakar Region →	locatedInSubregion
American Colonization Society →	mainTerritoryOfActivity
United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response →	operatingArea
Middle Passage ("West African coast") →	originatesFrom
Diogo de Azambuja →	placeOfActivity
Dutch West India Company →	primaryRegionOfActivity
Kwame Nkrumah →	regionOfActivity
Oryza glaberrima ("Upper Guinea region") →	regionOfEarlyCultivation
Ngozi →	regionOfUse
Diogo de Azambuja ("Atlantic Africa") →	sphereOfInfluence
Regional Service Centre Entebbe →	supportsRegion
Seven Years' War →	theater
Royal African Company →	tradingRegion
Ibn Battuta →	traveledTo