West Africa

West Africa
Largest city	Lagos
Area
• Total	6,140,000 km²
Population
• 2026 estimate	471,794,711

West Africa refers to the western region of Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Gulf of Guinea to the south, the Sahara to the north, and Lake Chad to the east. It commonly includes Mauritania, Western Sahara, Senegal, The Gambia, Mali, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Cape Verde, and the Canary Islands. Most of these are Anglophone and Francophone states with varying population sizes; Nigeria alone has 239 million people out of the total 471,794,711 in West Africa.

It covers approximately 6.5 million square kilometers, which is about one-fifth of Africa as a whole. Most of these economies are dependent on the export of raw materials to imperial core usurer states and on remittances from the diaspora.

The world has become divided into a handful of usurer states and a vast majority of debtor states.

— Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916

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