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West Africa
Also Known As Western Africa
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A region of Africa running along the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Guinea and inland to the Sahel, encompassing tropical coastal states and the drier savanna belt behind them. Its historic kingdoms and trading networks, and the Atlantic slave trade that later moved through its coastal ports, carried West African staple crops and cooking techniques directly into the Americas. Minted here as the home region West African cuisine is described against in FoodAtlas's own founding wave (ruling 632, mint-on-mention).
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Area (sq km)UN Geoscheme Western Africa, 16 states and territories. Population2025 estimate, UN Geoscheme definition. Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
Mali, Countries Mali is a landlocked state of western Africa the atlas own West Africa region entity already describes.
This source names The Sahel directly: "and the Gulf of Guinea and inland to the Sahel, encompassing tropical coastal states and the drier savanna belt behind them."
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- Also in Language Atlas: Hausa, part of this there.
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