Cities of Western Africa (World)

Cities of Western Africa (World) collects this atlas's city entities that sit within the Western Africa subregion of the United Nations M49 standard, region code 011. The UN Statistics Division's M49 overview page assigns these places to Western Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. This group node anchors every atlas city already tied to one of those West African countries, from national capitals such as Lagos, Accra and Dakar to smaller present day local government seats, so a reader can browse the region's urban settlements as one connected set instead of hunting country by country through the atlas's own country listing.