west africa

1. 1.

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

   Broadergeographical area

   Part ofAfrica

   PartsBritish West Africa

Questions about west africa

What does west africa mean?

west africa means "an area of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea".

Is west africa a common word?

west africa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.