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Ghana

Ghana is a country in . It's a gratifying destination for first-time visitors to West Africa, owing to its good infrastructure, political stability and widespread use of English.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Accra and Kumasi.

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is the capital city of Ghana. has a mix of 19th-century colonial architecture, modern skyscrapers and apartment blocks, and dusty shanty towns.

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is the main city of region of Ghana. It is a vibrant city and the cultural cradle of Ghana. is famous for its vast Kejetia market, the largest in West Africa, and for the traditional Asante buildings of the region, which are on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

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is Ghana's third city and the capital of Northern Ghana. has been voted three consecutive times by the Ghana Tourist Board as the cleanest city in Ghana and is proud of its well organized road networking in comparison to other cities and regions through Ghana.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Ghanaian Coastal Plain and Ashanti-Kwahu.

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is a region of Ghana.

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is a region of Ghana.

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Ghanaian Northern Plain is a region of Ghana.

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The is a region of Ghana dominated by Lake Volta, the world's largest man-made lake.
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Ghana

Latitude of center
8.103° or 8° 6′ 11″ north
Longitude of center
-1.055° or 1° 3′ 18″ west
Population
30,400,000
Area
239,460 km² (92,456 miles²)
Elevation
137 metres (449 feet)
Capital
Currency
Cedi (GHS)
Phone code
.gh
Internet domain
233
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424313836
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
2300660
Wiki­data ID
Q117
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Ghana” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Гана”
  • Achinese: “Ghana”
  • Adyghe: “Ганэ”
  • Afrikaans: “Ghana”
  • Akan: “Gaana”
  • Akan: “gh”
  • Akan: “Republic of Ghana”
  • Albanian: “Gana”
  • Albanian: “Ganë”
  • Amharic: “ጋና”
  • Amis: “Ghana”
  • Angika: “घाना”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية غانا”
  • Arabic: “غانا”
  • Aragonese: “Ghana”
  • Armenian: “Գանա”
  • Arpitan: “Gana”
  • Assamese: “ঘানা”
  • Asturian: “Ghana”
  • Atayal: “Ghana”
  • Awadhi: “घाना”
  • Aymara: “Ghana”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qana”
  • Balinese: “Ghana”
  • Bambara: “Gana”
  • Banjar: “Ghana”
  • Bashkir: “Гана”
  • Basque: “Ghana”
  • Bavarian: “Ghana”
  • Belarusian: “Гана”
  • Belarusian: “Ґана”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Гана”
  • Bengali: “গানা”
  • Bengali: “ঘানা”
  • Betawi: “Gana”
  • Bhojpuri: “घाना रिपब्लिक”
  • Bhojpuri: “घाना”
  • 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 Kanuri: “Ghana”
  • Central Kurdish: “گانا”
  • Chavacano: “Ghana”
  • Chechen: “Гана”
  • Chinese: “Ghana”
  • Chinese: “Jiānà”
  • Chinese: “加納”
  • Chinese: “加纳”
  • Chinese: “加纳共和国”
  • 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: “Ghana”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Ghana”
  • Dzongkha: “གྷ་ན”
  • Eastern Mari: “Гана”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جانا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جمهورية غانا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “غانا”
  • Esperanto: “Ganao”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Ganao”
  • Estonian: “Ghana Vabariik”
  • Estonian: “Ghana”
  • Ewe: “Gana”
  • Ewe: “Ghana nutome”
  • Ewe: “Ghana”
  • Extremaduran: “Ghana”
  • Fanti: “Ghana”
  • Farefare: “Gaana”
  • Farefare: “Ghana”
  • Faroese: “Gana”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ghana”
  • Finnish: “Ghana”
  • Finnish: “Ghanan tasavalta”
  • Fon: “Ganato”
  • Fon: “Ganatò”
  • French: “Ghana”
  • French: “la République du Ghana”
  • French: “République du Ghana”
  • Fulah: “Gana”
  • Fulah: “Ganaa”
  • Gagauz: “Gana”
  • Galician: “Gana”
  • Galician: “Ghana”
  • Ganda: “Gana”
  • Ganda: “Ghana”
  • Georgian: “განა”
  • German: “Ghana”
  • German: “Republic of Ghana”
  • German: “Republik Ghana”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “gh”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ghana”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Republic of Ghana”
  • Gilaki: “غنا”
  • Greek: “Γκάνα”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Γκάνας”
  • Guarani: “Gána”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Gana”
  • Gujarati: “ઘાના”
  • Gun: “Ghana”
  • Haitian: “Gana”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ghana”
  • Hausa: “Gana”
  • Hausa: “Ghana”
  • Hawaiian: “Gāna”
  • Hebrew: “גאנה”
  • Hindi: “घाना”
  • Hungarian: “Ghana”
  • Hungarian: “Ghána”
  • Hungarian: “Ghánai Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Gana”
  • Ido: “Ghana”
  • Igbo: “Ghana”
  • Iloko: “Ghana”
  • Inari Sami: “Ghana täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Ghana”
  • 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”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Gana”
  • Kabyle: “Ɣana”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ghana”
  • Kalmyk: “Ганмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಘಾನಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gana”
  • Kashmiri: “گانا”
  • Kashmiri: “گھانا”
  • Kazakh: “Гана”
  • Khmer: “ហ្គាណា”
  • Kikuyu: “Ghana”
  • Kikuyu: “Ngana”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Gana”
  • Kirghiz: “Гана”
  • Komering: “Ghana”
  • Kongo: “Gana”
  • Korean: “가나”
  • Kotava: “Gana”
  • Kurdish: “Gana”
  • Kurdish: “غەنا”
  • Kusaal: “gh”
  • Kusaal: “GhA”
  • Kusaal: “Ghana”
  • Kusaal: “Republic of Ghana”
  • Ladin: “Ghana”
  • Ladino: “Ghana”
  • Lao: “ການາ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດການາ”
  • 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: “il-Ghana”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika tal-Ghana”
  • Manipuri: “ꯘꯥꯅꯥ”
  • Manx: “Ganey”
  • Manx: “gh”
  • Manx: “GH”
  • Manx: “GHA”
  • Manx: “Ghana”
  • Manx: “y Ghaney”
  • 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”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “غانا”
  • Mossi: “gh”
  • Mossi: “Ghana”
  • 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 dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Ghana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ghana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Ghana”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ghana”
  • Norwegian: “Ghana”
  • Novial: “Gana”
  • Obolo: “Ganà”
  • 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”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၵႃႇၼႃႇ”
  • Shona: “Ghana”
  • Sicilian: “Gana”
  • Silesian: “Ghana”
  • Sindhi: “گهانا”
  • Sindhi: “گھانا”
  • Sinhala: “ඝානාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Ghana tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Ghana”
  • Slovak: “Ghana”
  • Slovak: “Ghanská republika”
  • Slovenian: “Gana”
  • Slovenian: “gh”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Gana”
  • Somali: “Gaana”
  • South Azerbaijani: “غنا”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Ghana”
  • Southern Sotho: “Ghana”
  • Spanish: “Ghana”
  • Spanish: “Republica de Ghana”
  • Spanish: “República de Ghana”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Ghana”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴳⴰⵏⴰ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵖⴰⵏⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Ghana”
  • Swahili: “Ghana”
  • Swati: “IGana”
  • Swedish: “Ghana”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Ghana”
  • Swiss German: “Ghana”
  • Tachelhit: “Ɣana”
  • Tagalog: “Ghana”
  • Tajik: “Гана”
  • Tajik: “Ғано”
  • Talysh: “Gana”
  • 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 Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Gana”
  • Turkmen: “Gana”
  • Twi: “Gaana”
  • Twi: “Ghana”
  • Tyap: “A̱byin Gana”
  • Tyap: “Gana”
  • Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik Gana”
  • Udmurt: “Гана”
  • Uighur: “گانا جۇمھۇرىيىتى”
  • Uighur: “گانا”
  • Ukrainian: “Гана”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґана”
  • Ukrainian: “Золотий Берег”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Гана”
  • 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”
  • Wali (Ghana): “Gaana”
  • Wali (Ghana): “gh”
  • Wali (Ghana): “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: “גהאנע”
  • Yiddish: “גהאַנע”
  • Yoruba: “Gana”
  • Yoruba: “Gánà”
  • Yoruba: “Ghánà”
  • Yue Chinese: “加納”
  • Zeeuws: “Ghâna”
  • Zhuang: “Ghana”
  • Zulu: “i-Ghana”
  • Zulu: “IGana”
  • “Gana”
  • “GH”
  • “GHA”
  • “Ghana”
  • “ma Kana”
  • “घाना”

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