WEST AFRICA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "West Africa"):

British West Africa (the former British territories of western Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast)

Holonyms ("West Africa" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

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