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Togo
Togolese Republic
Togo is a country in Western Africa. Its capital city is Lomé. About 7.9 million people live there, in an area of 56 785 square kilometres.
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Where is Togo?
Togo lies in Western Africa, on the continent of Africa.
It sits in the northern half of the world, roughly 891 km from the equator.
Its coastline is about 56 km long.
It shares a border with 3 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana.
How big is Togo?
Togo covers 56 785 square kilometres.
That is about 22 times the size of Luxembourg.
Among the world's countries that makes it the 123rd largest.
If everybody spread out evenly, there would be about 138.9 people on every square kilometre.
Who lives in Togo?
About 7.9 million people live in Togo.
That is the 100th biggest population in the world.
People here speak French.
They pay with the West African CFA franc (Fr).
On average, people born here can expect to live about 55 years.
The land of Togo
The land in Togo sits on average 236 metres above sea level.
Its coast runs for about 56 km. Walking it end to end, at twenty kilometres a day, would take roughly 3 days.
It lies inside the tropics, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.
What makes Togo different?
Websites from here often end in .tg.
Togo and the rest of the world
Out of every thousand people alive on Earth, about 1 live in Togo.
It takes up about 0.04 % of all the land that countries stand on.
Within Africa it is the 41st largest of 54 countries, and the 33rd most populated.
That is busier than the world average of roughly 60 people per square kilometre.
Togo and its neighbours
Burkina Faso, its largest neighbour, is about 4.8 times bigger.
Burkina Faso has more people: 19.8 million against 7.9 million.
Questions children ask
What is the capital of Togo?
The capital of Togo is Lomé. It is the city where the country's government works from.
How many people live in Togo?
About 7.9 million people live in Togo, which makes it the 100th most populated country in the world. (Source: World Bank, 2018.)
Which countries border Togo?
Togo borders Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana — 3 neighbours in total.
How big is Togo?
Togo covers 56 785 square kilometres, making it the 123rd largest country in the world. That is about 22 times the size of Luxembourg.
Which continent is Togo in?
Togo is in Africa, in the part called Western Africa.
Where these numbers come from
Borders and outlines: Natural Earth. Names, capitals, areas, languages and currencies: ISO 3166 data (world-countries). Population: World Bank, 2018. Every derived figure on this page (ranks, density, distance from the equator) is calculated from those values.
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