Benin

Burkina Faso

Cabo Verde

Côte d'Ivoire

Gambia

Ghana

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Liberia

Mali

Niger

Nigeria

Senegal

Sierra Leone

Togo

Sub-Saharan Africa

A map highlights E C O W A S members highlighted in blue. Some of the Countries are Mali, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria, Guinea, and Côte d'Ivoire.

Member states of the Economic Community of West African States, an organization founded in 1975 to promote economic integration among its members

Countries

ECOWAS

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members

Alaska

Arizona

Utah

Yukon

Northwest Territories

District of Columbia

Florida

Idaho

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Vermont

Washington

Wyoming

Nunavut

Montana

Maine

North Dakota

Kentucky

Nova Scotia

Virginia

Delaware

Prince Edward Island

Saskatchewan

Mississippi

West Virginia

Nebraska

Texas

Missouri

Louisiana

Hawaii

North Carolina

Oregon

New Brunswick

Alabama

New Mexico

Kansas

Wisconsin

British Columbia

Newfoundland and Labrador

New Jersey

South Carolina

Michigan

Alberta

Connecticut

Pennsylvania

Colorado

Nevada

Massachusetts

Georgia

New York

Maryland

Québec

Manitoba

Oklahoma

Tennessee

Ontario

California

Arkansas

South Dakota

Ohio

Indiana

Minnesota

Iowa

Illinois

None

A global map shows lightning flashes per square kilometer per year (flashes per square kilometer per year).

Lightning flashes per square kilometer per year (flashes/km²/year)

Lightning Frequency

The map illustrates global lightning frequency. Areas with less than 0.1 flashes per square kilometer per year are shaded in light green and include most ocean regions, northern Canada, the Sahara Desert, and parts of western and northern Europe. Areas with 0.1 flashes per square kilometer per year are shaded in light yellow and are scattered along parts of oceanic regions and coastal regions. Regions with 0.2 flashes per square kilometer per year are shaded in light purple and include parts of oceanic regions, coastal regions in the north of Canada and Russia. Areas with 0.4 flashes per square kilometer per year are shaded in red and are scattered along the Atlantic ocean, coastal regions on the north of Russia, Indian Ocean, and Pacific ocean. Areas with 0.6 flashes per square kilometer per year to 1 flash per square kilometer per year are shaded in blue to light green, covering northern Canada, the contiguous United States (excluding the Southeast), parts of South America, much of northern region of Europe, most of Africa south of the Sahara, and most of South, East, and Southeast Asia, including south of Australia. Areas experiencing 2 to 10 flashes per square kilometer per year, indicated by pink to blue shades, include the Southeastern United States, parts of Central and South America, and large areas in Africa, South, East, and Southeast Asia. High lightning frequency regions (20 to 50 flashes per square kilometer per year) are highlighted in dark pink to dark red, located in Southeastern United States, Colombia in South America, Central Africa (notably the Democratic Republic of Congo), and Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.

World

NASA

Papua New Guinea

Solomon Is.

Australia & Oceania

Haiti

Caribbean

Afghanistan

Central Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Russia

Eurasia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cyprus

Northern Macedonia

Serbia

Ukraine

Europe

Brazil

Colombia

Guatemala

Honduras

Peru

Latin America

New Caledonia (France)

Mexico

North America

Bangladesh

India

Pakistan

Sri Lanka

South Asia

Indonesia

Myanmar

Philippines

Thailand

Southeast Asia

Iraq

Lebanon

Libya

Palestine

Syria

Turkey

Yemen

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Burundi

Cameroon

Central African Republic

Chad

Democratic Republic of Congo

Ethiopia

Kenya

Madagascar

Mozambique

Republic of the Congo

Somalia

South Sudan

Sudan

Uganda

A map shows countries by the number of internally displaced persons. Higher (dark blue) are in the central eastern Africa, Turkey, India, Colombia. Medium levels (blue) are in northern Africa, Mexico and low levels (light blue) in Russia and Brazil

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) who are displaced due to conflict, as of 2022

The UN Refugee Agency

Internally Displaced Persons

People

Seychelles

Mauritania

Mauritius

São Tomé and Príncipe

Algeria

Egypt

Morocco

Tunisia

Western Sahara

Angola

Botswana

Comoros

Djibouti

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

eSwatini

Gabon

Lesotho

Malawi

Namibia

Rwanda

South Africa

Tanzania

Zambia

Zimbabwe

A map of Africa highlights the countries of the Africa that are the members of African Union. All countries of Africa along with the Madagascar are shaded in green.

Member states of the African Union, established in 1963 to achieve greater unity and solidarity among its members

African Union

African Union (AU) Members

A world map showing volcanoes active between 1800 and 2020. Volcanoes are scattered globally, with notable concentrations in the western US, Mexico, Central America, the Andes, the Mediterranean, East Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Time series map animation showing locations of significant volcanic eruptions from 1800 to 2019. Use timeline controls at bottom of the map to display data by time period.

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members	Lightning Frequency															Internally Displaced Persons			African Union (AU) Members	Volcanoes
Value	Lightning Frequency	<0.1 flashes/km²/year	0.1 flashes/km²/year	0.2 flashes/km²/year	0.4 flashes/km²/year	0.6 flashes/km²/year	0.8 flashes/km²/year	1 flash/km²/year	2 flashes/km²/year	4 flashes/km²/year	6 flashes/km²/year	8 flashes/km²/year	10 flashes/km²/year	20 flashes/km²/year	30 flashes/km²/year	Class	Rank	People	Value	Volcanoes











	24.4%	16.4%	8.63%	6.27%	9.50%	4.67%	3.58%	14.1%	25.7%	10.1%	11.3%	14.8%	42.6%	30.6%	47.1%					1.8

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Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members