Northwest Africa

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geographic region region of Africa

Northwest Africa is a geographic region of the African continent that includes countries along its northwestern Atlantic coast, such as Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara, and parts of neighboring states.

Aliases (4)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographic region → region of Africa →
adjacentTo	Mediterranean Sea → Sahel → Sub-Saharan Africa →
borderedBy	Atlantic Ocean → Sahara Desert →
bordersRegion	Central Africa → West Africa →
continent	Africa →
hasClimate	Mediterranean climate (in coastal and highland areas) → arid → semi-arid →
hasCoastOn	Atlantic Ocean → Mediterranean Sea →
hasColonialHistoryWith	France → Italy (in eastern parts sometimes included) → Spain →
hasEconomicActivity	agriculture → fishing → hydrocarbon extraction → pastoralism → phosphate mining →
hasEthnoLinguisticGroup	Arab → Berber (Amazigh) → Hassaniya-speaking Moors →
hasHistoricalTradeRoute	Trans-Saharan trade →
hasMajorDesert	Sahara Desert →
hasMajorEcoregion	Sahel →
hasMajorLanguageFamily	Afroasiatic languages → Niger–Congo languages NERFINISHED →
hasMajorReligion	Islam →
hasNaturalResource	iron ore → oil and gas → phosphates →
historicallyAssociatedWith	Maghreb →
includesCountry	Mauritania → Morocco →
includesPartOf	Algeria → Libya → Mali → Niger → Tunisia →
includesTerritory	Western Sahara →
locatedIn	Northern Hemisphere → Western Hemisphere →
overlapsWith	Maghreb →
partOf	Africa →
timeZoneRegion	UTC to UTC+1 (varies by country) →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Khoms District ("northwest Africa") → Nouakchott → Río de Oro → Spanish Sahara →	locatedIn
Cape Verde Islands → Tenerife →	locatedOffCoastOf
First Army (Allied, North Africa) →	areaOfOperations
Villa Cisneros ("Atlantic coast of Africa") →	coast
Arab Maghreb Union ("Western North Africa") →	geographicalFocus
Atlantic coast ("Northwest African coast") →	hasPart
Lixus →	locatedInRegion
Ifni War →	location
Rosa →	nativeTo
Mauritania →	subregion