West African Countries Quiz

West Africa consists of 16 countries: Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire), Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Cape Verde (island nation). The region spans from the Sahara Desert in the north through the semi-arid Sahel zone to the tropical coastal forests and mangrove swamps of the Atlantic coast.

West Africa's Geographic and Cultural Landscape

West Africa was one of the most important regions of the medieval world, home to great empires like the Mali Empire (which controlled trans-Saharan gold and salt trade), the Songhai Empire, and the Kingdom of Dahomey. Nigeria contains the Niger Delta - One of the world's largest river deltas and a major oil-producing region. The Gulf of Guinea, where the equator meets the Prime Meridian at 0°N 0°E, lies off the West African coast. Explore more with our African countries map quiz, African capitals map quiz, and North African countries map quiz.