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West Africa
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westernmost region of the African continent
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West Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent, comprising multiple countries along the Atlantic coast and interior areas. It matters because of its significant population, natural resources, cultural diversity, and historical importance to global trade and development.
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Research
136,777 papers- West Africa: make cocoa production truly sustainable.Nature · 2023Addoah T, Lyons-White J, Cammelli F et al.DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-00891-8
- Decolonizing Medical Training for Development Impact in West Africa.West African journal of medicine · 2023Okonofua F
- Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage in West Africa: A call to action.Neurology · 2020Saylor D, Vora NDOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009054
- Psychiatry on a Shoestring: West Africa and the Global Movements of Deinstitutionalization.Bulletin of the history of medicine · 2022Quarshie NODOI: 10.1353/bhm.2022.0023
- West Africa is facing its worst food crisis in a decade, aid agencies warn.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2022Iacobucci GDOI: 10.1136/bmj.o913
- The measles campaign in West and Central Africa: remembering the future.Vaccine · 2008De Groot A, Bamba SI, Bougoudogo FDOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.04.088
- West Africa on alert for haemorrhagic fevers.Lancet (London, England) · 2021Adepoju PDOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01863-8
- Emergence of human monkeypox in west Africa.The Lancet. Infectious diseases · 2019Rezza GDOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30281-6
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- Instance of
- cultural region
- Part of
- Africa
- Country
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Continent
- Africa
- Population
- 429459920
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Shares border with
- Central Africa
- Location
- Africa
- Image
- Westafrica.png
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- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- topic's main category
- Category:West Africa
- Commons category
- West Africa
- Commons gallery
- West Africa
- located in/on physical feature
- Africa
- P12749
- Hilde Körber
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Encyclopedic overview
Regions of the African Union:
Western
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “West Africa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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