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In the drier interior, the Upper Guinean forests yield to the [[Guinean forest-savanna mosaic]], a belt of dry forests and [[savanna]]s that lies between the coastal forests and the savannas and grasslands of the [[Sudan (region)|Sudan]] further north. The [[Dahomey Gap]], a region of Togo and Benin where the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic extends to the Atlantic coast, separates the Upper Guinean forests from the [[Lower Guinean forests]] to the east, which extend from eastern Benin through [[Nigeria]], [[Cameroon]], and south along the coast of the [[Gulf of Guinea]]. The Upper Guinean forests are a [[Global 200]] [[ecoregion]].
The [[World Wide Fund for Nature]] (WWF) designated the Upper Guinean forests, which it calls the Guinean moist forests, as one of its [[Global 200]] critical regions for conservation.
The WWF divides the Upper Guinean forests into three [[ecoregion]]s * The [[Western Guinean lowland forests]] extend from Guinea and Sierra Leone through Liberia and southeastern Côte d'Ivoire as far as the [[Sassandra River]]. * The [[Guinean montane forests]] are found at higher elevations in the [[Guinea Highlands]], which extend through central and southeastern Guinea, northern Sierra Leone, and eastern Côte d'Ivoire.
▲[[Guinean montane forests]] are found at higher elevations in the highlands of central Guinea, northern Sierra Leone, and eastern Côte d'Ivoire. The [[Eastern Guinean forests]] extend east from the Sassandra River through Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana to western Togo, with a few isolated enclaves further inland in the highlands of central Togo and Benin.
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