The country is shaped like a square and borders the Gulf of Guinea on the north Atlantic Ocean to the south ( 515 km of coastline ) and five other African nations on the other three sides, with a total of 3, 110 km of borders: Liberia to the southwest ( 716 km ), Guinea to the northwest ( 610 km ), Mali to the north-northwest ( 532 km ), Burkina Faso to the north-northeast, and Ghana to the east ( 668 km ).

Greenland is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada and northwest of Iceland.

With the rapid Arctic sea ice decline in the Hudson Strait, their range now extends deep into the northwest Atlantic.

Maine (; ) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast.

It is bounded by Quebec, Canada, to the north and northwest ; Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east ; Massachusetts to the south ; and Vermont to the west.

The Norwegian Sea () is a marginal sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Norway.

Dutch mapmakers P. Plancius and C. Claesz show an island ' Rookol ' northwest of Ireland in the their Map of New France and the Northern Atlantic Ocean ( Amsterdam, c. 1594 ).

It is also particularly noticeable in parts of Atlantic Canada ( especially Newfoundland ) since the collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery in 1992.

Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe, occupying most ( about 85 percent ) of the Iberian Peninsula and includes a small exclave inside France called Llívia as well as the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Western Atlantic Ocean off northwest Africa, and five places of sovereignty ( plazas de soberanía ) on and off the coast of north Africa: Ceuta, Melilla, Islas Chafarinas, Peñón de Alhucemas, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.

Most of Spain's boundaries are water: the Mediterranean Sea on the south to the French border and the Atlantic Ocean on the northwest and southwest ( in the south as the Golfo de Cádiz and in the north as the Bay of Biscay ).

Rivers in the extreme northwest and in the narrow northern coastal plain drain directly into the Atlantic Ocean.

The UK lies between the North Atlantic and the North Sea, and comes within of the northwest coast of France, from which it is separated by the English Channel.

In April 2006, the Canadian Species at Risk Act listed the population of the northwest Atlantic walrus in Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador as having been eradicated in Canada.

After the passage of a cold front, winds tend to switch to the northwest, and a frequent pattern is for a long-lasting low-pressure area to form over the Canadian Maritimes, which may pull cold northwestern air across the Great Lakes for a week or more, commonly identified with the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation ( NAO ).

Beginning from the Atlantic Ocean, the state's eastern border with South Carolina runs up the Savannah River, northwest to its origin at the confluence of the Tugaloo and Seneca Rivers.

: Northern Europe ( for cultural and historical reasons it is not considered to be a part of North America ), between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the British Isles.

Cuba lies west of the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Gulf of Mexico, south of the Straits of Florida, northwest of the Windward Passage, and northeast of the Yucatan Channel.

Some northwest of the French Guyanese capital Cayenne the Kourou River empties into the Atlantic Ocean.

It is located south of Philadelphia and northwest of Atlantic City.

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal starts in Georgetown and was used during the 19th century to bypass the Great Falls of the Potomac River, located upstream ( northwest ) of Washington at the Atlantic Seaboard fall line.

The Western and Atlantic Railroad laid rail tracks from Atlanta, northwest to Chattanooga in the 1840s.

Truro is located just south and east of the " tip " of Cape Cod, and is bordered by Provincetown to the northwest, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east, Wellfleet to the south, and Cape Cod Bay to the west.

Chilmark is bordered by Vineyard Sound to the northwest, West Tisbury to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south and Aquinnah to the southwest.

The Arctic cod is widely distributed in the western part of the Arctic basin, also the northwest and northeast coasts of Greenland.

Although his home has been traditionally identified as one of the Aeolian Islands ( there is little consensus as to which ), near Sicily, an alternative location has been suggested at Gramvousa off the northwest coast of Crete.

The Arabian Sea has two important branches — the Gulf of Aden in the southwest, connecting with the Red Sea through the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb ; and the Gulf of Oman to the northwest, connecting with the Persian Gulf.

A fast-growing invasive bryozoan off the northeast and northwest coasts of the USA has reduced kelp forests so much that it has affected local fish and invertebrate populations.

It also has a large series of Bobs that follow the southern border and spill into the northwest area of Peru.

Jordan is situated geographically in Southwest Asia, south of Syria, west of Iraq northwest of Saudi Arabia and east of Israel and the West Bank ; politically, the area has also been referred to in the West as the Middle or Near East.

The island has roughly the shape of an equilateral triangle, with on a side, aligned with the southwest side running northwest to southeast.

The south, central, and northeast parts of the state have a humid mesothermal climate, while the northwest has a humid continental climate ( microthermal ), with slightly cooler temperatures due to higher elevation.

The northwest has the lowest annual rainfall in the country and hardly any precipitation in its desert areas.

Known until 1972 as Ceylon (,, or ), Sri Lanka has maritime borders with India to the northwest across the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Strait, and the Maldives to the southwest.

The northwest coast is part of the deep Cauvery ( Kaveri ) River Basin of southeast India, which has been collecting sediments from the highlands of India and Sri Lanka since the breakup of Gondwanaland.

Traditionally the strait has been associated with the Strait of Messina between Italy and Sicily, but more recently this theory has been challenged, and the alternative location of Cape Skilla in northwest Greece has been suggested by Tim Severin.

Initial settlement was probably around the mouth of the Sa ' dan river, on the northwest coast of the peninsula, although the south coast has also been suggested.

The muqam system developed among the Uyghur in northwest China and Central Asia over approximately the last 1500 years from the Arabic maqamat modal system that has led to many musical genres among peoples of Eurasia and North Africa.

Recent findings narrow the first domestication of wheat down to a small region of southeastern Turkey, and domesticated Einkorn wheat at Nevalı Çori — northwest of Gobekli Tepe in Turkey — has been dated to 9, 000 B. C.

Established in 1954, the organization is based in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the Franco – Swiss border, () and has 20 European member states.

Deer are widely distributed, with indigenous representatives in all continents except Antarctica and Australia, though Africa has only one native species, the Red Deer, confined to the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of the continent.

The Vaucluse is the meeting point of three of the four different climatic zones of France ; it has a Mediterranean climate in the south, an alpine climate in the northeast, around the mountains of Vaucluse and the massif of the Baronnies ; and a continental climate in the northwest.

( The building still exists, but like the rest of the Bay Area it has shifted northwest perhaps 0. 6 meter in the last twenty years.

The impression from the valley floor that this is a round dome which has lost its northwest half is an illusion.

Jewel-Osco has 180 stores across northern, central, and western Illinois ; eastern Iowa ; and portions of northwest Indiana.