Ghana
Ghana is a country in West Africa is a gratifying destination for first-time visitors to West Africa owing to its good infrastructure, political stability and widespread use of English.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Accra
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Accra is the capital city of Ghana. Accra has a mix of 19th-century colonial architecture, modern skyscrapers and apartment blocks, and dusty shanty towns.
Tamale
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Tamale is Ghana's third city and the capital of Northern Ghana.
Destinations
Volta Basin
Volta Basin is a region of Ghana dominated by Lake Volta, the world's largest man-made lake.Ghanaian Northern Plains
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Ghanaian Northern Plain is a region of Ghana.
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Ghana
- Type: Country with 30,400,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in West Africa
- Languages: English, Akan, Ewe and Twi
- Neighbors: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Togo
- Categories: sovereign state and locality
- Location: West Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
8.103° or 8° 6' 11" northLongitude of centre
-1.055° or 1° 3' 18" westPopulation
30,400,000Area
239,460 km² (92,456 miles²)Elevation
137 metres (449 feet)Capital
AccraCurrency
Cedi (GHS)Phone code
.ghInternet domain
233OpenStreetMap ID
node 424313836OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
2300660Wikidata ID
Q117Ghana Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Ɣana
- Abkhazian: Гана
- Achinese: Ghana
- Adyghe: Ганэ
- Afar: Gana
- Afrikaans: Ghana
- Akan: GHA
- Akan: Gaana
- Akan: Ghana
- Akan: Republic of Ghana
- Akan: gh
- Albanian: Gana
- Albanian: Ganë
- Amharic: Ghana
- Amharic: ጋና
- Amis: Ghana
- Angika: घाना
- Arabic: Ghana
- Arabic: جمهورية غانا
- Arabic: غانا
- Aragonese: Ghana
- Armenian: Գանա
- Arpitan: Gana
- Assamese: ঘানা
- Asturian: GHA
- Asturian: Ghana
- Atayal: Ghana
- Avaric: Gana
- Awadhi: घाना
- Aymara: Ghana
- Azerbaijani: Qana
- Balinese: Ghana
- Bambara: Gana
- Banjar: Ghana
- Bashkir: Гана
- Basque: Ghana
- Bavarian: Ghana
- Belarusian: Гана
- Belarusian: Рэспубліка Гана
- Belarusian: Ґана
- Bengali: গানা
- Bengali: ঘানা
- Bhojpuri: घाना
- Bhojpuri: घाना रिपब्लिक
- Bhojpuri: रिपब्लिक ऑफ घाना
- Bishnupriya: ঘানা
- Bislama: Gana
- Bosnian: Gana
- Breton: Ghana
- Bulgarian: Гана
- Burmese: ဂါနာ
- Burmese: ဂါနာနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Ghana
- Catalan: República de Ghana
- Cebuano: Ghana
- Central Bikol: Gana
- Central Kurdish: گانا
- Chavacano: Ghana
- Chechen: Гана
- Chinese: Ghana
- Chinese: Jiānà
- Chinese: 加納
- Chinese: 加纳
- Chinese: 迦納
- Chinese: 迦納共和國
- Chuvash: Гана
- Cornish: Gana
- Cornish: Ghana
- Corsican: Ghana
- Crimean Tatar: Ğana
- Croatian: Gana
- Czech: Ghana
- Dagbani: Gana
- Dagbani: Ghana
- Danish: Ghana
- Dhivehi: ގާނާ
- Dimli (individual language): Gana
- Dotyali: घाना
- Dutch: GH
- Dutch: GHA
- Dutch: Ghana
- Dzongkha: གྷ་ན
- Eastern Mari: Гана
- Egyptian Arabic: جانا
- English: GHA
- English: Republic of Ghana
- English: gh
- Esperanto: GH
- Esperanto: Ganao
- Esperanto: Respubliko Ganao
- Estonian: Ghana
- Estonian: Ghana Vabariik
- Ewe: Gana
- Ewe: Ghana
- Ewe: Ghana nutome
- Extremaduran: Ghana
- Fanti: Ghana
- Farefare: Gaana
- Farefare: Ghana
- Faroese: Gana
- Fiji Hindi: Ghana
- Finnish: Ghana
- Finnish: Ghanan tasavalta
- French: GH
- French: Ghana
- French: République du Ghana
- French: la République du Ghana
- Fulah: Gana
- Fulah: Ganaa
- Gagauz: Gana
- Galician: Gana - Ghana
- Galician: Ghana
- Ganda: Gana
- Ganda: Ghana
- Georgian: განა
- German: Ghana
- German: Republic of Ghana
- German: Republik Ghana
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: GHA
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Ghana
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Republic of Ghana
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: gh
- Greek: Γκάνα
- Greek: Δημοκρατία της Γκάνας
- Guarani: Gána
- Guianese Creole French: Gana
- Gujarati: Ghana
- Gujarati: ઘાના
- Gun: Ghana
- Haitian: Gana
- Hakka Chinese: Ghana
- Hausa: Gana
- Hausa: Ghana
- Hausa: Gāna
- Hawaiian: Gāna
- Hebrew: גאנה
- Hindi: घाना
- Hungarian: Ghana
- Hungarian: Ghána
- Hungarian: Ghánai Köztársaság
- Icelandic: Gana
- Ido: Ghana
- Igbo: Ghana
- Iloko: Ghana
- Inari Sami: Ghana
- Inari Sami: Ghana täsiväldi
- Indonesian: Ghana
- Interlingua: Ghana
- Interlingue: Ghana
- Irish: Gána
- Italian: Gana
- Italian: Ghana
- Italian: Repubblica del Ghana
- Jamaican Creole English: Gaana
- Japanese: ガーナ
- Japanese: ガーナ共和国
- Javanese: Ghana
- Kabiyè: Kana
- Kabyle: Ɣana
- Kalaallisut: Ghana
- Kalmyk: Ганмудин Орн
- Kannada: ಘಾನಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Gana
- Kashmiri: گانا
- Kazakh: Гана
- Khmer: ហ្គាណា
- Kikuyu: Ghana
- Kikuyu: Ngana
- Kinyarwanda: Gana
- Kirghiz: Гана
- Kongo: Gana
- Korean: 가나
- Kotava: Gana
- Kurdish: Gana
- Kurdish: غەنا
- Kusaal: GhA
- Kusaal: Ghana
- Kusaal: Republic of Ghana
- Kusaal: gh
- Ladin: Ghana
- Ladino: Ghana
- Lao: Ghana
- Lao: ການາ
- Latin: Gana
- Latvian: Gana
- Ligurian: Ghana
- Limburgan: Ghana
- Lingala: Gana
- Lingala: Ghana
- Lingua Franca Nova: Gana
- Literary Chinese: 迦納
- Lithuanian: Gana
- Livvi: Gana
- Lojban: lo gugdeguxe
- Lombard: Ghana
- Low German: Ghana
- Lower Sorbian: Ghana
- Luba-Katanga: Ngana
- Lule Sami: Gádná
- Lule Sami: Gánná
- Luxembourgish: Ghana
- Macedo-Romanian: Gana
- Macedonian: Гана
- Maithili: घाना
- Malagasy: Ganà
- Malagasy: Ghana
- Malay: Ghana
- Malayalam: ഖാന
- Malayalam: ഘാന
- Maltese: Gana
- Maltese: Ghana
- Maltese: Repubblika tal-Ghana
- Maltese: il-Ghana
- Manipuri: ꯘꯥꯅꯥ
- Manx: Yn Ghaney
- Maori: Kāna
- Marathi: घाना
- Mazanderani: غنا
- Min Dong Chinese: Ghana
- Min Nan Chinese: Ghana
- Minangkabau: Ghana
- Mingrelian: განა
- Moksha: Гана
- Mongolian: Гана
- Mongolian: ꯘꯥꯅꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: غانا
- Mossi: Ghana
- Mossi: gh
- N'Ko: ߜ߭ߊߣߊ߬
- Nauru: Gana
- Ndonga: Ghana
- Nepali: घाना
- Newari: घाना
- Nigerian Pidgin: Gana
- North Ndebele: Ghana
- Northern Frisian: Ghaana
- Northern Luri: غنا
- Northern Sami: Ghana
- Northern Sami: Ghana dásseváldi
- Norwegian: Ghana
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ghana
- Norwegian Bokmål: Republikken Ghana
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ghana
- Novial: Gana
- Occitan (post 1500): Ghana
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Ghana
- Oriya: ଘାନା
- Oromo: Gaanaa
- Ossetian: Ганæ
- Pali: घाना
- Pampanga: Ghana
- Panjabi: ਘਾਨਾ
- Papiamento: Ghana
- Pedi: Ghana
- Pennsylvania German: Ghana
- Persian: غنا
- Persian: قانا
- Piemontese: Ghana
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Gaana
- Polish: Ghana
- Portuguese: Gana
- Portuguese: República de Gana
- Pushto: ګانا
- Pushto: گانا
- Quechua: Gana
- Quechua: Ghana
- Quechua: Qhana
- Romanian: Ghana
- Romansh: Ghana
- Rundi: Gana
- Russia Buriat: Гана
- Russian: Гана
- Russian: Республика Гана
- Rusyn: Ґана
- Sakizaya: Ghana
- Samoan: Ghana
- Samogitian: Gana
- Sango: Ganäa
- Sanskrit: घाना
- Santali: ᱜᱷᱟᱱᱟ
- Sardinian: Ghana
- Saterfriesisch: Ghana
- Scots: Ghana
- Scottish Gaelic: Gàna
- Serbian: Gana
- Serbian: Гана
- Serbo-Croatian: Gana
- Serbo-Croatian: Ɣana
- Shan: မိူင်းၵႃႇၼႃႇ
- Shona: Ghana
- Sicilian: Gana
- Silesian: Ghana
- Sindhi: گهانا
- Sindhi: گھانا
- Sinhala: ඝානාව
- Skolt Sami: Ghana
- Skolt Sami: Ghana tääʹssväʹldd
- Slovak: Ghana
- Slovak: Ghanská republika
- Slovenian: Gana
- Somali: Gaana
- South Azerbaijani: غنا
- Southern Sotho: Ghana
- Spanish: Ghana
- Spanish: Republica de Ghana
- Spanish: República de Ghana
- Sranan Tongo: Ghana
- Sundanese: Ghana
- Swahili: Ghana
- Swati: IGana
- Swedish: Ghana
- Swedish: Republiken Ghana
- Swiss German: Ghana
- Tachelhit: Ɣana
- Tagalog: Ghana
- Tajik: Гана
- Tajik: Ғано
- Talysh: Qana
- Tamil: கானா
- Taroko: Ghana
- Tatar: Гана
- Telugu: ఘనా
- Tetum: Gana
- Thai: กานา
- Thai: กาน่า
- Thai: ประเทศกานา
- Tibetan: ཀ་ན།
- Tibetan: གྷ་ན།
- Tigrinya: ጋና
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Kana
- Tosk Albanian: Ghana
- Tsonga: Ghana
- Tumbuka: Ghana
- Tunisian Arabic: غانا
- Turkish: Gana
- Turkmen: Gana
- Twi: Ghana
- Tyap: A̱byin Gana
- Tyap: Gana
- Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Gana
- Udmurt: Гана
- Uighur: گانا
- Uighur: گانا جۇمھۇرىيىتى
- Ukrainian: Гана
- Ukrainian: Золотий Берег
- Ukrainian: Республіка Гана
- Ukrainian: Ґана
- Upper Sorbian: Ghana
- Urdu: گھانا
- Uzbek: Gana
- Venetian: Gana
- Venetian: Ghana
- Veps: Gan
- Vietnamese: Gha-na (Ghana)
- Vietnamese: Gha-na
- Vietnamese: Ghana
- Vlaams: Ghana
- Vlax Romani: Ghana
- Volapük: Ganän
- Võro: Ghana
- Walloon: Gana
- Waray (Philippines): Ghana
- Welsh: Ghana
- Western Frisian: Gana
- Western Frisian: Ghana
- Western Mari: Гана
- Western Panjabi: گھانا
- Wolof: Gana
- Wu Chinese: 加纳
- Yakut: Гана
- Yiddish: גהאַנע
- Yiddish: גהאנע
- Yoruba: Gana
- Yoruba: Ghánà
- Yoruba: Gánà
- Yue Chinese: 加納
- Zeeuws: Ghâna
- Zhuang: Ghana
- Zulu: IGana
- Zulu: i-Ghana
- Historic: Gold Coast
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