Human Settlement
The ecoregion covers large areas of many West African nations including:
- Senegal - much of the southern Casamance arm of the country including the city of Ziguinchor.
- All of inland Guinea-Bissau
- Guinea - the band of lowland areas parallel to the coast and then running south-east of the central mountains, including the towns of Fria, Kindia and Kissidougou.
- Northern Sierra Leone including the towns of Makeni and Kabala.
- Côte d'Ivoire - a swathe across the middle east from Touba through the country's second city Bouaké.
- A wide strip across Ghana including the country east of Lake Volta, where the main town is Ho.
- Togo - the southern plateau.
- Benin - the southern areas including the city of Bohicon.
- Nigeria - a large area including the cities of Ibadan, which means where the forest meets the savanna, the country's capital Abuja, Lokoja where the River Niger and River Benue meet, Enugu, and Makurdi.
Read more about this topic: Guinean Forest-savanna Mosaic
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