West Africa

===Road transport===
{{Main|Trans–West African Coastal Highway}}
[[File:Dakar-Lagos Highway Map.PNG|450px|right]]
The ''Trans–West African Coastal Highway'' is a transnational [[highway]] project to link 12 West African coastal states, from [[Mauritania]] in the north-west of the region to [[Nigeria]]<ref name="Nigeria Real Estate Market Review">{{cite book |url=https://www.northcourtrealestate.com/download/Nigeria_RE_Market_Review_H1_2022.pdf |title=Nigeria Real Estate Market Review |publisher=Northcourt }}{{pn|date=January 2024}}</ref> in the east, with feeder roads already existing to two landlocked countries, [[Mali]] and [[Burkina Faso]].<ref name="NEPAD">[https://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol20no3/203-highways.html Itai Madamombe (2006): "NEPAD promotes better transport networks"], ''Africa Renewal'', Vol. 20, No. 3 (October 2006), p. 14.</ref>

The eastern end of the highway terminates at [[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]].<ref name="Nigeria Real Estate Market Review"/> [[Economic Community of West African States]] (ECOWAS) consider its western end to be [[Nouakchott]], [[Mauritania]], or to be [[Dakar]], [[Senegal]], giving rise to these alternative names for the road:
* Nouakchott–Lagos Highway
* Lagos–Nouakchott Highway
* Dakar–Lagos Highway
* Lagos–Dakar Highway
* Trans-African Highway 7 in the [[Trans-African Highway]] network