GHANA

GHANA Ghana Ghana is a country in West Africa connected on the north and the northwest by Burkina Faso, on the east by Togo, on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the west by Côte d’Ivoire. Ghana became, in 1957, the first black nation in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve independence. The country is named for the ancient empire of Ghana. The ancestors of the people of the present country are thought to have migrated. The total area is 238,500 sq km (92,100 sq mi). Accra is Ghana’s capital and largest city. Ghana is a lowland country, except for a range of hills on the eastern border. The sandy coast is backed by a coastal plain that is crossed by several rivers and streams, generally navigable only by canoe. In the west the terrain is broken by heavily forested hills and many streams and rivers. To the north lies savanna country that is drained by the Black and White Volta rivers, which join to form the Volta, which then flows south to the sea through a narrow gap in the hills. Lake Volta, in the east, is one of the largest artificial lakes in the world; it was formed by the Akosombo about, ghana, population, north, country, volta, hills, west, total, south, rivers, resources, temperatures, streams, sq, september, season, sea, region, rainy, produced, percent, people, palm, one, oil, occur, nuts, natural, mm, march, largest, include, highest, harmattan, ghana’s, generally, form, export, except, eastern, east, coastal, chiefly, cacao, black, april, annual, africa, world’s