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

Australia

Cook Is. (New Zealand)

Norfolk I. (Australia)

Nauru

Pitcairn Is. (U.K.)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (U.K.)

St. Helena (U.K.)

Samoa

Kiribati

Palau

French Polynesia (France)

Fiji

Micronesia

Guam (U.S.)

Marshall Is.

Northern Mariana Is. (U.S.)

New Zealand

Papua New Guinea

Solomon Is.

Tuvalu

Australia & Oceania

Caribbean Netherlands (Neth.)

St. Barthélemy (France)

St. Kitts and Nevis

U.S. Virgin Is. (U.S.)

Bahamas

Bermuda (U.K.)

Cayman Is. (U.K.)

Dominica

St. Lucia

Turks and Caicos Is. (U.K.)

Trinidad and Tobago

British Virgin Is. (U.K.)

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Jamaica

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Cuba

Caribbean

Uzbekistan

Central Asia

Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

South Korea

East Asia

United Kingdom

Isle of Man (U.K.)

Netherlands

Cyprus

Estonia

Albania

Denmark

Greece

Croatia

Ireland

Malta

Norway

Portugal

Guernsey (U.K.)

Jersey (U.K.)

Europe

Chile

Belize

Ecuador

Honduras

Panama

Latin America

Mayotte (France)

Guadeloupe (France)

French Southern and Antarctic Lands (France)

Falkland Is. (U.K.)

Faeroe Is. (Denmark)

Greenland (Denmark)

Heard I. and McDonald Is. (Australia)

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

St. Pierre and Miquelon (France)

New Caledonia (France)

São Tomé and Príncipe

Tonga

Mauritius

Vanuatu

Wallis and Futuna Is. (France)

None

Maldives

Bangladesh

Sri Lanka

South Asia

Indonesia

Timor-Leste

Brunei

Philippines

Southeast Asia

Kuwait

United Arab Emirates

Qatar

Southwest Asia and North Africa

Comoros

Eritrea

Mean sea-surface temperatures shown using patterns of latitudinal bands extend roughly east to west. The coldest temperatures are shown in the northern latitudes. Temperatures warm as latitudes near the equator.

Average sea-surface temperatures between 1990 and 2020

Mean Sea-Surface Temperature

Sea-surface temperatures create latitudinal bands extending east to west, influenced by ocean currents and continents. In the tropics, temperatures range from 24.0 to 32.0 degrees Celsius; in the midlatitudes, from 8.0 to 23.9 degrees Celsius; and in higher latitudes and polar regions, from negative 2.0 to 7.9 degrees Celsius. Significant deviations occur along the Atlantic coast of western Europe, where temperatures are warmer than the east coast of North America at the same latitude, and along the Pacific coast of Canada, the Atlantic coasts of Canada and the northeastern United States, and the western coasts of South America and southern Africa, where waters are cooler than expected. The hottest ocean areas are between Indonesia and Australia (30.0 to 32.0 degrees Celsius), followed by tropical parts of the western Pacific and Indian oceans, and small areas along the coasts of West Africa and Central America (28.0 to 29.9 degrees Celsius).

Oceans

NOAA

Degrees Celsius (°C)

Turkmenistan

Afghanistan

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Tajikistan

China

Japan

Nepal

Taiwan

Russia

Georgia

Eurasia

Iceland

Italy

Nicaragua

Argentina

Colombia

Costa Rica

Guatemala

Peru

El Salvador

Canada

United States

Mexico

North America

Pakistan

Bhutan

India

Myanmar

Laos

Thailand

Malaysia

Iran

Turkey

Morocco

Malawi

Tanzania

Mozambique

A world map of earthquake activity from 2000 to 2019. Circles of varying sizes represent earthquake magnitudes, with larger circles for higher magnitudes. Significant activity is noted in Colombia, Iran, Turkey, Tanzania, and the North Atlantic Ocean.

Time series data showing locations and Richter scale magnitudes of significant earthquakes from 1800 BCE to 2019. Use timeline controls at bottom of the map to display data by time period.

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members	Mean Sea-Surface Temperature																	Earthquakes
Value	-2.0 to 0.0	0.0 to 1.9	2.0 to 3.9	4.0 to 5.9	6.0 to 7.9	8.0 to 9.9	10.0 to 11.9	12.0 to 13.9	14.0 to 15.9	16.0 to 17.9	18.0 to 19.9	20.0 to 21.9	22.0 to 23.9	24.0 to 25.9	26.0 to 27.9	28.0 to 29.9	30.0 to 32.0	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes	Earthquakes
		2.47%	12.1%									1.08%		100%	28.3%	17.7%	3.17%	1	1
												100%		36.7%	4.98%				1
								1.16%										1	1
								1.33%			31.8%							2.5	2
																		1
		1.37%	1.54%	6.46%	3.58%	3.90%	1.32%	2.51%	1.50%	5.05%	3.20%							1
						1.53%	1.40%		1.91%						1.44%			1	1	1
	1.06%	100%	11.8%	7.96%	63.5%	7.48%	12.7%								10.1%	16.5%	29.2%		1
																		1.5	1
													2.13%		1.28%	100%
															2.36%	2.54%		1	2
											4.71%	1.13%						3.5
													76.8%	1.22%	1.30%	100%		1	1