Group
type: Class
label: Grupo @es

Economic Region
type: Class
label: Región económica @es

Area
type: Class
label: Zona @es

RDF description of Economic Community of West African States - http://aims.fao.org/aos/geopolitical.owl#ECOWAS_1985
type: Document
rights: ECOWAS 1985/termsOfUse
date: 2026-08-15T19:36:35
publisher: Economic Community of West African States

Economic Community of West African States
type: Area
name official FR: Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
has member: Sierra Leone
name short EN: ECOWAS
has member: Nigeria
name official RU: Экономическое сообщество западноафриканских государств
valid until: 2009
has member: Mali
name short ES: CEDEAO
name official ES: Comunidad Económica de los Estados del África Occidental
has member: Liberia
name official EN: Economic Community of West African States
has member: Togo
name short FR: CEDEAO
most specific type: Economic Region
has member: Niger
name list ZH: 西非国家经济共同体
is predecessor of: Economic Community of West African States
has member: Côte d'Ivoire
has member: Ghana
has member: Senegal
has member: Benin
has member: Gambia
valid since: 1985
has member: Guinea
type: Economic Region
has member: Guinea-Bissau
name official ZH: 西非国家经济共同体
name list FR: Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
name list EN: Economic Community of West African States
type: Group
has member: Burkina Faso
type: Thing
name list ES: Comunidad Económica de los Estados del África Occidental
code FAOTERM: 48092
name list RU: Экономическое сообщество государств Западной Африки
has member: Cape Verde
name list AR: الجماعة الاقتصادية لدول غرب أفريقيا

Sierra Leone
type: BFO_0000001
type: GeographicRegion
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000006
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000141
type: Thing
type: Location
type: BFO_0000004
type: Area
type: Country
type: territory
type: BFO_0000002
type: GeopoliticalEntity
is in group: Economic Community of West African States

Nigeria
type: BFO_0000006
type: Country
type: territory
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000002
type: Area
type: BFO_0000004
type: BFO_0000141
type: Location
type: self governing
type: GeographicLocation
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000001
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: Thing

Mali
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000004
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000001
type: BFO_0000141
type: territory
type: Country
type: BFO_0000002
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: Location
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000006
type: Thing
type: Area

Liberia
type: GeographicRegion
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: Country
type: Thing
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000141
type: Area
type: BFO_0000001
type: territory
type: BFO_0000004
type: Location
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000002
type: BFO_0000006
type: GeopoliticalEntity

Togo
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: GeographicLocation
type: Area
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000141
type: self governing
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000001
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: BFO_0000004
type: BFO_0000002
type: Country
type: territory
type: Location
type: BFO_0000006

Niger
type: GeographicRegion
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000001
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: Country
type: Thing
type: Location
type: BFO_0000141
type: BFO_0000002
type: Area
type: territory
type: GeographicLocation
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000006
type: BFO_0000004

Economic Community of West African States
type: Thing
type: Area
type: Group
type: Economic Region
is successor of: Economic Community of West African States

Côte d'Ivoire
type: Thing
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: BFO_0000141
type: territory
type: BFO_0000004
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000006
type: self governing
type: Country
type: BFO_0000002
type: GeographicLocation
type: GeographicRegion
type: Area
type: Location
type: BFO_0000001

Ghana
type: territory
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: BFO_0000006
type: BFO_0000001
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000141
type: BFO_0000002
type: self governing
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000004
type: Thing
type: Area
type: Country
type: Location

Senegal
type: GeographicRegion
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: BFO_0000001
type: BFO_0000004
type: BFO_0000141
type: Thing
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000002
type: BFO_0000006
type: Country
type: self governing
type: Area
type: territory
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Location

Benin
type: BFO_0000141
type: BFO_0000001
type: territory
type: GeographicRegion
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: Location
type: BFO_0000006
type: Thing
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000002
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: self governing
type: Country
type: BFO_0000004
type: Area

Gambia
type: BFO_0000006
type: BFO_0000001
type: Location
type: Area
type: self governing
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000002
type: GeographicRegion
type: GeopoliticalEntity
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000004
type: Country
type: territory
type: BFO_0000141

Guinea
type: GeographicLocation
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: BFO_0000002
type: BFO_0000006
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000001
type: Area
type: BFO_0000004
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000141
type: territory
type: self governing
type: GeographicRegion
type: Location
type: Country

Guinea-Bissau
type: Country
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000002
type: Location
type: GeographicRegion
type: BFO_0000141
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000004
type: Area
type: territory
type: GeopoliticalEntity
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: BFO_0000001
type: GeographicLocation
type: BFO_0000006

Burkina Faso
type: Thing
type: GeographicLocation
type: Area
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: BFO_0000004
type: Location
type: territory
type: BFO_0000006
type: BFO_0000002
type: GeographicRegion
type: Country
type: BFO_0000141
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000001
type: self governing

Cape Verde
type: territory
type: BFO_0000141
type: Country
type: GeographicLocation
type: Thing
type: BFO_0000004
type: GeopoliticalEntity
type: BFO_0000001
type: GeographicRegion
type: self governing
type: BFO_0000006
is in group: Economic Community of West African States
type: Location
type: Area
type: BFO_0000002