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WEST AFRICA
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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)