The Gambia Guinea-Bissau (formerly Portuguese Guinea) Guinea (formerly French Guinea) Sierra Leone (British part of the Pepper Coast, originally Province of Freedom) Liberia (from U.S. settlements for ex-slaves on the Pepper Coast) Ivory Coast or Côte d'Ivoire Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast; Danish Guinea, Dutch Guinea, Portuguese Gold Coast (the first), Prussian Gold Coast and Swedish Guinea all ended up absorbed by the British Gold Coast) Togo (formerly Togoland) Benin (Dahomey) Southern Nigeria Western Cameroon (formerly Kamerun) Equatorial Guinea (formerly Spanish Guinea) See also Lower Guinean forests Upper Guinean forests West Africa New Guinea Guineaman, a ship used to transport slaves from the region of Guinea Notes References Books DIFFIE, Bailey W. and WINIUS, George D. - Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580, Volume 1, University of Minnesota Press, 1977. NEWITT, Malyn- A history of Portuguese overseas expansion, 1400-1668, Routledge, New York, 2005. Regions of Africa Divided regions