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In this account the northernmost limit of West Africa is taken as 18° of northern latitude. Its eastern limit extends to about 22° E and so the region includes the main wetlands of the Chad basin that lie to the south and to the east of Lake Chad. To the south of this basin the boundary is the border of present-day Nigeria and the United Republic of Cameroon or Cameroun (see Fig. 1).
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John, D.M., Lévêque, C., Newton, L.E. (1993). Western Africa. In: Whigham, D.F., Dykyjová, D., Hejný, S. (eds) Wetlands of the world: Inventory, ecology and management Volume I. Handbook of vegetation science, vol 15-2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8212-4_3
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