]> 2009/04/07 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2009 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. Mappings between OpenCyc terms and Wikipedia article names provided by Olena Medelyan and Catherine Legg, University of Waikato, NZ under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. A subregion of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjtJ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfAfrica</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rk2wt8IPDEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">WestAfrica</a> is generally taken to include the following countries: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViDE5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Benin</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViFrJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BurkinaFaso</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViHuZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IvoryCoast</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViGs5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Gambia</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViG75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ghana</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViHMpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Guinea</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViHdJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Guinea_Bissau</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViH_pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Liberia</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViIgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mali</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViIwpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mauritania</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViDUpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Niger</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViCTJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Nigeria</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViJi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Senegal</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViKEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SierraLeone</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViLG5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Togo</a>. It is considered by some also to include the island countries of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViUz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CapeVerde</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViE4pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SaoTomeAndPrincipe</a>. Note that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rk2wt8IPDEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">WestAfrica</a> does not constitute all of (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj66ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WesternRegionFn</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjtJ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfAfrica</a>), but is rather a proper subregion of the latter. WestAfrica West Africa

West Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa The Planet Earth PlanetEarth Earth geographical region A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwLjlAJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalThing</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkDZZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SurfaceRegion_Tangible</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViACZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalRegion</a> is a tangible spatial region that includes some piece of the surface of a planet (usually <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkL_pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlanetEarth</a>), and may be represented on a map of the planet. This includes purely topographical regions like mountains and underwater spaces, places defined by demographics (e.g. language areas) and territory otherwise demarcated (e.g. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPvi0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TimeZone</a>s). In "dualist" geopolitical contexts (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvnCA15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DualistGeopoliticalMt</a>, instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a> are also considered to be instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViACZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalRegion</a>. In all cases the region in question must contain some tangible component with which it is possible to make physical contact. The instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViACZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalRegion</a> contrast in this respect with the instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvc-YsJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalThing_Intangible</a>, which are wholly intangible. Examples of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViACZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalRegion</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjOO5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RockyMountainStates_USRegion</a>, the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv9tl95wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfAustralia</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViO4pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SinaiPeninsula</a>, and -- in "dualist" geopolitical contexts -- <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViC4ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">YaleUniversity</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBlpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CityOfPittsburghPA</a>. Some important types of regions are represented by the sub-collections <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj3CJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LanguageArea</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPvi0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TimeZone</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWdbEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PostalCodeRegion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjKJ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EcologicalRegion</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwP2CrJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ConstructionSite</a>, and -- in "dualist" geopolitical contexts -- <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjl2pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeopoliticalEntity</a>. No instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViACZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">GeographicalRegion</a> are wholly indoor locations. GeographicalRegion A subregion of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjtJ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfAfrica</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rk2wt8IPDEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">WestAfrica</a> is generally taken to include the following countries: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViDE5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Benin</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViFrJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BurkinaFaso</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViHuZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IvoryCoast</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViGs5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Gambia</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViG75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ghana</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViHMpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Guinea</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViHdJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Guinea_Bissau</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViH_pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Liberia</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViIgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mali</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViIwpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mauritania</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViDUpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Niger</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViCTJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Nigeria</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViJi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Senegal</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViKEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SierraLeone</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViLG5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Togo</a>. It is considered by some also to include the island countries of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViUz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CapeVerde</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViE4pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SaoTomeAndPrincipe</a>. Note that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rk2wt8IPDEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">WestAfrica</a> does not constitute all of (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj66ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WesternRegionFn</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjtJ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfAfrica</a>), but is rather a proper subregion of the latter. WestAfrica West Africa EasternContinent The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwT-n15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TrueContinent</a> (q.v.) in the eastern hemisphere. It includes the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjtJ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfAfrica</a> and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQwyMJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfEurasia</a> (which is further subdivided into the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjqEpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfAsia</a> and the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjddJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfEurope</a>) as <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjNiZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">geographicalSubRegions</a>. the Old World Wikipedia Article URL (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rNv0nbm4TTjOp7yhmnzOyqg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleURL</a> THING URL) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article located at URL wikipediaArticleURL Western Africa (WesternRegionFn ContinentOfAfrica) BT broaderTerm <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> means that <code>TERM2</code> is broader than <code>TERM1</code>, in an extremely general sense of "broader". For example, <code>TERM2</code> is, in the relevant sense, broader than <code>TERM1</code> if any of the following hold: <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that subsumes <code>TERM1</code>; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection that has <code>TERM1</code> as an instance; <code>TERM2</code> is a collection, instances of which have instances of the collection <code>TERM1</code> as parts; <code>TERM2</code> has <code>TERM1</code> as a part; This list of reasons for why <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> TERM1 TERM2)</code> could hold is not exhaustive, but it should give a good indication of how general the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rZOAVeiYGEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">broaderTerm</a> relation actually is. wikipediaArticleName (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTv-jk9SPTXa991kk5mAvHg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleName</a> THING NAME) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article with the title NAME Wikipedia Article Name A subregion of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjtJ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfAfrica</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rk2wt8IPDEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">WestAfrica</a> is generally taken to include the following countries: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViDE5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Benin</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViFrJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BurkinaFaso</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViHuZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IvoryCoast</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViGs5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Gambia</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViG75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ghana</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViHMpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Guinea</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViHdJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Guinea_Bissau</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViH_pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Liberia</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViIgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mali</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViIwpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Mauritania</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViDUpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Niger</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViCTJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Nigeria</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViJi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Senegal</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViKEZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SierraLeone</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViLG5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Togo</a>. It is considered by some also to include the island countries of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViUz5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CapeVerde</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViE4pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SaoTomeAndPrincipe</a>. Note that <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rk2wt8IPDEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">WestAfrica</a> does not constitute all of (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj66ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WesternRegionFn</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjtJ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfAfrica</a>), but is rather a proper subregion of the latter. WestAfrica West Africa An instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkLu5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Continent</a>. The <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjtJ5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ContinentOfAfrica</a> is the second largest continent, located north and south of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPzQjJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EarthsEquator</a> in the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjP15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EasternHemisphere_Region</a>. Africa is connected to Asia by the narrow Isthmus of Suez; it includes <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViEopwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Madagascar</a> and other offshore islands. Africa ContinentOfAfrica