Upper Guinean forests
The Upper Guinean forests is a tropical seasonal forest region of West Africa. The Upper Guinean forests extend from Guinea and Sierra Leone in the west through Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana to Togo in the east, and a few hundred kilometers inland from the Atlantic coast.- Type: Region
- Description: tropical moist forest region of West Africa
- Also known as: “lesy Horní Guiney”
Upper Guinean forests
- Categories: forest and locality
- Location: Sefwi-Wiawso Municipal District, Western North Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.35° or 6° 21′ northLongitude
-2.61° or 2° 36′ 36″ westOpen location code
6CRV89XQ+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 5491575422OpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodOpenStreetMap feature
place=regionWikidata ID
Q2113691
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Czech to Venetian—“Upper Guinean forests” goes by many names.
- Czech: “lesy Horní Guineje”
- Esperanto: “Gvineaj humidaj arbaroj”
- Esperanto: “Supra-gvineaj arbaroj”
- French: “Forêts humides guinéennes”
- Georgian: “ზემო გვინეის ტყეები”
- Italian: “Foreste umide della Guinea”
- Slovenian: “gozdovi Zgornje Gvineje”
- Slovenian: “zgornjegvinejski gozdovi”
- Spanish: “Selva humeda guineana”
- Spanish: “Selva húmeda guineana”
- Swahili: “Misitu ya Juu ya Guinea”
- Ukrainian: “Ліси Верхньої Гвінеї”
- Venetian: “Foreste ùmide de ła Guinea”
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