Togo
Togo is a narrow country in West Africa, sandwiched between Ghana on the west and Benin on the east. It is a charming country, mostly due to its charming people as there are not many tourist attractions.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Ferdinand Reus, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Lomé and Kara.
Lomé
Photo: Dominik Schwarz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lomé is the capital and largest city of Togo. With a population of almost 2.2 million, the city is the economic and cultural center of the country. Around a quarter of the country's population lives here.
Kara
Koutammakou
Photo: Kalyss, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba is a cultural landscape designated in 2004 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site at the border between northern Togo and Benin.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Kpalime and Aného.
Kpalime
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kpalimé is a city in the Plateaux Region of Togo, 120 km north of Lomé and 15 km from the border with Ghana. It is the administrative capital of Kloto Prefecture.
Aného
Photo: SebEsteban, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aného is a town of 25,000 people in southeastern Togo on the Gulf of Guinea near the border of Benin. Aného is an old German colonial town, and a centre of voodoo along the West African pilgrimage route Voodoo Trail, which connects Lomé with Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.
Badou
Badou is a town of 24,000 people nestled in the Akposso mountains, in the West Plateau Region. Badou is the capital and the main market of the district of Wawa, a border region specialized in the production of cocoa.Togo
- Type: Country with 6,590,000 residents
- Description: country in West Africa
- Also known as: “French Togoland”, “Republic of Togo”, “tg”, and “Togolese Republic”
- Languages: French, Ewe, Mina (Cameroon), Kabiyè, Dagbani, and Hausa
- Neighbors: Benin, Burkina Faso, and Ghana
- Categories: republic, sovereign state, and locality
- Location: West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
8.5158° or 8° 30′ 57″ northLongitude of center
1.0767° or 1° 4′ 36″ eastPopulation
6,590,000Area
56,785 km² (21,925 miles²)Elevation
325 metres (1,066 feet)Capital
LomeCurrency
Franc (XOF)Phone code
.tgInternet domain
228OpenStreetMap ID
node 424311827OpenStreetMap feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
2363686Wikidata ID
Q945
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Togo” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Того”
- Abkhazian: “Тоготәи Ареспублика”
- Achinese: “Togo”
- Adyghe: “Того”
- Afrikaans: “Togo”
- Akan: “Togo”
- Albanian: “Togo”
- Amharic: “ቶጎ”
- Amharic: “ቶጐ”
- Amis: “Togo”
- Angika: “टोगो”
- Arabic: “توجو”
- Arabic: “توغو”
- Arabic: “جمهورية توغو”
- Aragonese: “Togo”
- Armenian: “Տոգո”
- Arpitan: “Togô”
- Assamese: “টোগো”
- Asturian: “Togu”
- Atayal: “Togo”
- Azerbaijani: “Toqo”
- Balinese: “Togo”
- Bambara: “Togo”
- Banjar: “Togo”
- Bashkir: “Того”
- Basque: “Togo”
- Bavarian: “Togo”
- Belarusian: “Тога”
- Bengali: “টোগো”
- Betawi: “Togo”
- Bhojpuri: “टोगो”
- Bishnupriya: “টোগো”
- Bislama: “Togo”
- Bosnian: “Togo”
- Breton: “Togo”
- Bulgarian: “Того”
- Burmese: “တိုဂို”
- Burmese: “တိုဂိုနိုင်ငံ”
- Catalan: “República Togolesa”
- Catalan: “Togo”
- Cebuano: “Togo”
- Central Bikol: “Togo”
- Central Kurdish: “تۆگۆ”
- Chavacano: “Togo”
- Chechen: “Того”
- Chinese: “Duōgē”
- Chinese: “Togo”
- Chinese: “多哥”
- Chinese: “多哥共和国”
- Chinese: “多哥共和國”
- Chuvash: “Того”
- Cornish: “Togo”
- Corsican: “Togoland”
- Crimean Tatar: “Togo”
- Croatian: “Togo”
- Czech: “Togo”
- Dagbani: “Togo”
- Danish: “Togo”
- Dhivehi: “ޓޯގޯ”
- Dimli (individual language): “Togo”
- Dotyali: “टोगो”
- Dutch: “Republiek Togo”
- Dutch: “Togo”
- Dzongkha: “ཊོ་གྷོ”
- Eastern Mari: “Того”
- Egyptian Arabic: “توجو”
- Esperanto: “Respubliko Togolanda”
- Esperanto: “Respubliko Togolo”
- Esperanto: “Togo”
- Esperanto: “Togolando”
- Esperanto: “Togolo”
- Estonian: “Togo Vabariik”
- Estonian: “Togo”
- Ewe: “Togo nutome”
- Ewe: “Togo”
- Extremaduran: “Togu”
- Farefare: “Togo”
- Faroese: “Togo”
- Fiji Hindi: “Togo”
- Finnish: “Togo”
- Finnish: “Togon tasavalta”
- Fon: “Togoto”
- Fon: “Togotò”
- French: “la République togolaise”
- French: “République togolaise”
- French: “République Togolaise”
- French: “Togo”
- Fulah: “Togo”
- Fulah: “Togoo”
- Gagauz: “Togo”
- Galician: “Togo”
- Ganda: “Togo”
- Georgian: “ტოგო”
- German: “Republik Togo”
- German: “République Togolaise”
- German: “Togo”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Togo”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Togolese Republic”
- Gilaki: “تؤگؤ”
- Greek: “Τόγκο”
- Guarani: “Tógo”
- Guianese Creole French: “Togo”
- Gujarati: “ટોગો”
- Gun: “Togo”
- Haitian: “Togo”
- Hakka Chinese: “Togo”
- Hausa: “Togo”
- Hebrew: “טוגו”
- Hindi: “टोगो”
- Hungarian: “Togo”
- Hungarian: “Togói Köztársaság”
- Icelandic: “Tógó”
- Ido: “Togo”
- Igbo: “Togo”
- Iloko: “Togo”
- Inari Sami: “Togo täsiväldi”
- Inari Sami: “Togo”
- Indonesian: “Republik Togo”
- Indonesian: “Togo”
- Interlingua: “Togo”
- Interlingue: “Togo”
- Irish: “Tóga”
- Italian: “Repubblica Togolese”
- Italian: “Togo”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Tuogo”
- Japanese: “トーゴ”
- Japanese: “トーゴ共和国”
- Javanese: “Togo”
- Kabiyè: “Togo”
- Kabyle: “Togo”
- Kabyle: “Ṭugu”
- Kalaallisut: “Togo”
- Kalmyk: “Тоһлмудин Орн”
- Kannada: “ಟೊಗೊ”
- Kannada: “ಟೋಗೋ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Togo”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Togolez Respublikası”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Того”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Тоголез Республикасы”
- Kashmiri: “ٹوگو”
- Kashmiri: “टोगो”
- Kazakh: “Того”
- Khmer: “តូហ្គោ”
- Kikuyu: “Togo”
- Kinyarwanda: “Togo”
- Kirghiz: “Того”
- Komering: “Togo”
- Kongo: “Togo”
- Korean: “토고 공화국”
- Korean: “토고”
- Kotava: “Togoa”
- Kurdish: “Togo”
- Kurdish: “تۆگۆ”
- Ladin: “Togo”
- Ladino: “Togo”
- Lao: “ໂຕໂກ”
- Latin: “Togum”
- Latvian: “Togo”
- Ligurian: “Tògo”
- Limburgan: “Togo”
- Lingala: “Togo”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Togo”
- Literary Chinese: “多哥”
- Lithuanian: “Togas”
- Livvi: “Togo”
- Lojban: “lo gugdetugu”
- Lombard: “Togo”
- Low German: “Togo”
- Lower Sorbian: “Togo”
- Luba-Katanga: “Togu”
- Luxembourgish: “Togo”
- Macedonian: “Того”
- Madurese: “Togo”
- Malagasy: “Togo”
- Malagasy: “Tôgô”
- Malay: “Togo”
- Malayalam: “ടോഗോ”
- Maltese: “it-Togo”
- Maltese: “Repubblika Togoliża”
- Maltese: “Togo”
- Manipuri: “ꯇꯣꯒꯣ”
- Manx: “Yn Togo”
- Maori: “Toko”
- Marathi: “टोगो”
- Mazanderani: “توگو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Togo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Togo”
- Minangkabau: “Togo”
- Mingrelian: “ტოგო”
- Moksha: “Того”
- Mongolian: “Того”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الطوݣو”
- Moroccan Arabic: “طوڭو”
- Mossi: “Tôgô”
- N'Ko: “ߕߜ߭ߏ߫”
- Nauru: “Togo”
- Nepali: “टोगो”
- Newari: “टोगो”
- North Ndebele: “Thogo”
- Northern Frisian: “Toogo”
- Northern Sami: “Toge”
- Northern Sami: “Togo dásseváldi”
- Northern Sami: “Togo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Republikken Togo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Togo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Togo”
- Norwegian: “Togo”
- Novial: “Togo”
- Obolo: “Togo”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tògo”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Togo”
- Oriya: “ଟୋଗୋ”
- Oromo: “Toogoo”
- Ossetian: “Того”
- Pali: “टोगो”
- Pampanga: “Togo”
- Pampanga: “Togu”
- Panjabi: “ਟੋਗੋ”
- Papiamento: “Togo”
- Pedi: “Togo”
- Pennsylvania German: “Togo”
- Persian: “توگو”
- Piemontese: “Tògo”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Togo”
- Polish: “Togo”
- Portuguese: “Togo”
- Pushto: “توګو”
- Pushto: “ټوګو”
- Quechua: “Togo”
- Quechua: “Tugu”
- Rakhine: “တိုဂို သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ”
- Romanian: “Togo”
- Romansh: “Togo”
- Rundi: “Togo”
- Russia Buriat: “Того”
- Russian: “Того”
- Russian: “Тоголезская Республика”
- Rusyn: “Того”
- Sakizaya: “Togo”
- Samoan: “Togo”
- Samogitian: “Togs”
- Sango: “Togö”
- Sanskrit: “टोगो”
- Santali: “ᱴᱳᱜᱳ”
- Sardinian: “Togo”
- Saterfriesisch: “Togo”
- Scots: “Togo”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Togo”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tògo”
- Serbian: “Togo”
- Serbian: “Того”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Togo”
- Shan: “မိူင်းထူဝ်းၵူဝ်ႇ”
- Shona: “Togo”
- Sicilian: “Togu”
- Silesian: “Togo”
- Sindhi: “ٽوگو”
- Sinhala: “ටොගෝ”
- Sinhala: “ටෝගෝ”
- Skolt Sami: “Togo tääʹssväʹldd”
- Skolt Sami: “Togo”
- Slovak: “Togo”
- Slovak: “Togská republika”
- Slovenian: “Togo”
- Somali: “Togo”
- Somali: “Toogo”
- South Azerbaijani: “توقو”
- Southern Dagaare: “Togo”
- Southern Sotho: “Togo”
- Spanish: “Republica Togolesa”
- Spanish: “República Togolesa”
- Spanish: “Togo”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵟⵓⴳⵓ”
- Sundanese: “Togo”
- Swahili: “Togo”
- Swati: “IThogo”
- Swedish: “Republiken Togo”
- Swedish: “Togo”
- Swiss German: “Togo”
- Tagalog: “Togo”
- Tajik: “Того”
- Talysh: “Togo”
- Tamil: “டோகோ”
- Taroko: “Togo”
- Tatar: “Того”
- Telugu: “టోగో”
- Thai: “โตโก”
- Thai: “โทโก”
- Thai: “ประเทศโตโก”
- Tibetan: “ཊོ་གོ”
- Tigrinya: “ቶጎ”
- Tigrinya: “ቶጐ”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Toko”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Togo”
- Tosk Albanian: “Togo”
- Tsonga: “Togo”
- Tumbuka: “Togo”
- Tunisian Arabic: “طوڨو”
- Turkish: “Togo”
- Turkmen: “Togo”
- Twi: “Togo”
- Tyap: “Ri̱pobi̱lik A̱togo wu”
- Tyap: “Togo”
- Udmurt: “Того”
- Uighur: “توگو”
- Ukrainian: “Республіка Того”
- Ukrainian: “Того”
- Ukrainian: “Тоґо”
- Upper Sorbian: “Togo”
- Urdu: “ٹوگو”
- Uzbek: “Togo”
- Venetian: “Togo”
- Veps: “Togo”
- Vietnamese: “Tô-gô”
- Vietnamese: “Togo”
- Volapük: “Togoän”
- Võro: “Togo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Togo”
- Welsh: “Togo”
- Western Frisian: “Togo”
- Western Mari: “Того”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹوگو”
- Wolof: “Togo”
- Wolof: “Togóo”
- Wu Chinese: “多哥”
- Yakut: “Того”
- Yiddish: “טאגא”
- Yoruba: “Togo”
- Yoruba: “Tógò”
- Yue Chinese: “多哥”
- Zeeuws: “Toho”
- Zhuang: “Togo”
- Zulu: “i-Togo”
- Zulu: “ITogo”
- “ma Toko”
- “TG”
- “TGO”
- “TOG”
- “Togo”
- “Togs”
- “टोगो”
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