LOCATION Africa is located between latitude 37 degrees north and 35 degrees south of the equator and longitudes 17 degrees west and 51 degrees east of the Greenwich Meridian.   POSITION Africa, the second largest continent in the world after Asia is bounded in the north by the Mediterranean sea which separates which separates Africa from Europe, in the south by  the Atlantic Ocean, in the east by Indian Ocean and to the north-east by Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden which separates Africa from Asia. Africa is the most tropical of all the continents. It is almost bisected by the equator and about 43 percent…

SIZE West Africa occupies about one fifth of the area of Africa and has a total land area of approximately 6,143,000 square kilometres. The main offshore islands include Sao Tome, Principe, Fernando Po, Annobon and Cape Verde which occupy another land area of 1400 sq km. Thus, the overall land area of West Africa has a regional extent of about 3200km from west to east and 1200km from north to south. The countries with large land areas include Niger(1,204 sq. km), Mali(1,189 sq. km), Mauritania(1,085 sq. km) and Nigeria(923,768 sq. km).   LOCATION West Africa is located between longitude 15 degrees east and 18 degrees west and latitude 4 degrees…