The first sub-Saharan African country to gain independence from colonial rule, in 1957.
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Ghana
Republic of Ghana
Africa
ยท Western Africa
0Population
238.53Kkmยฒ of land
$2.2KGDP / person
AccraCapital
- ISO codes
- GH ยท GHA
- Density
- 128 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Ghanaian cedi (GHS)
- Dial code
- +233
- Internet domain
- .gh
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 7.7180ยฐ N, 1.0370ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Ghanaian
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $66.98B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Ghana stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
46th
of 242 ยท 0.40% of world population
Land area
83rd
of 242 ยท 0.16% of world land
GDP per person
186th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
86th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Ghana
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 30,417,856 people, the 46th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.4 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 238,533 kmยฒ, making it the 83rd largest country here - about 7.8 times the size of Belgium.
Population density is about 128 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Accra, at 5.55ยฐ N, 0.22ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 2,121,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Burkina Faso, Cรดte d'Ivoire and Togo.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Accra.
The currency is the Ghanaian cedi (GHS, symbol โต).
The official language is English.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Accra
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
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Accra
Greater Accra
5.5520ยฐ N, 0.2187ยฐ W
2.12M
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Ghana.