One of the narrowest countries in Africa, only about 115 km wide but 550 km long.
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Togo
Togolese Republic
Africa
· Western Africa
0Population
56.79Kkm² of land
$679GDP / person
LoméCapital
- ISO codes
- TG · TGO
- Density
- 142 /km²
- Languages
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Dial code
- +228
- Internet domain
- .tg
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 8.8070° N, 1.0580° E
- Demonym
- Togolese
- UN region
- Western Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- $5.49B
- Sovereignty
- Independent · UN member
- Borders
- 3
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By the numbers
How Togo stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
101st
of 242 · 0.11% of world population
Land area
126th
of 242 · 0.04% of world land
GDP per person
225th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
78th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Togo
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 8,082,366 people, the 101st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.11 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 56,785 km², making it the 126th largest country here - about 6.1 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 142 people per km².
The capital is Lomé, at 6.13° N, 1.22° E, with a metropolitan population of about 1,452,000.
Shares land borders with 3 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Lome.
The currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, symbol Fr).
The official language is French.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Lome
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UTC+00:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
★ Lomé
Maritime
6.1339° N, 1.2208° E
1.45M
2
Atakpamé
Plateaux
7.5300° N, 1.1200° E
80.68K
Land neighbours
3 countries share a border with Togo.