A map of the continent of Africa and its countries with purple dark dots representing forest elephant populations and yellow light colored dots representing savanna elephant population.

Forest elephant populations range from Guinea in the west, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Ghana and in central Africa in Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Savanna elephant populations range from Sierra Leone in the west, Mali, Ghana, and Nigeria, Eritrea in the east, and throughout central Africa in Chad, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, the northern part of South Africa and Namibia.