About Ghana

Ghana is located in West Africa and is sandwiched between Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and Togo. The northern border is the country Burkina Faso and the southern border is the Gulf of Guinea. The country is slightly smaller than the state of Oregon. The landscape consists mainly of plains and low plateaus covered by rain forests in the west and Lake Volta in the east.

• OFFICIAL NAME: Republic of Ghana
• FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Constitutional Democracy
• CAPITAL: Accra
• POPULATION: 28,102,471
• AREA: 92,100 square miles (238,537 square kilometers)
• OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: English, Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, Ga
• MONEY: Cedi