Windward Coast

{{Short description|European historical term for an area of West Africa}}

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|conventional_long_name = Windward Coast

|common_name = Windward Coast

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|status = Modern day Liberia, and Côte d'Ivoire

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|demonym = Windwarders

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|image_map = Windward Coast.svg

|map_caption = Windward Coast location in red

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The Windward Coast is an area of West Africa located on the coast between Cape Mount and Assini,{{cite journal |last1=Jones |first1=Adam |last2=Johnson |first2=Marion |title=Slaves from the Windward Coast |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-african-history/article/abs/slaves-from-the-windward-coast/D62590B63A007907BD95F1556253A8F4 |journal=The Journal of African History |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=21 July 2021 |pages=17–34 |language=en |doi=10.1017/S0021853700017837 |date=1980|volume=21 |s2cid=162137010 |url-access=subscription }} i.e. the coastlines of the modern states of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast, to the west of the Gold Coast. A related region is the Pepper Coast.