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Togo, [ a ] officially the Togolese Republic, [ b ] is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. [ 16 ] It is one of the least developed countries and extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its capital, Lomé, is located. [ 16 ]
Ghana, [a] officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It lies adjacent to the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing a border with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Togo in the east.
Togo's geographic coordinates are a latitude of 8° north and a longitude of 1°10′ east. It is bordered by three countries: Benin to the east, with 644 km (400 mi) of border; Burkina Faso to the north, with 126 km (78 mi) of border; and Ghana, with 877 km (545 mi) of border. To the south Togo has 56 km (35 mi) of coastline along the Bight of ...
After a brief section on the Mo the border then continues to the south, using various overland segments and some small rivers, before eventually terminating at the Atlantic coast just west of Togo's capital Lomé. [2] The highest points of both countries, Mount Afadja in Ghana and Mount Agou in Togo, lie close to each other near the border.
The Akwapim-Togo Ranges. The low plains comprise the four subregions of the coastal savanna, the Volta Delta, the Accra Plains, and the Akan lowlands or peneplains. [1] A narrow strip of grassy and scrubby coast runs from a point near Takoradi in the west to the Togo border in the east. [1]
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa and the most populous country in Africa. Nigeria shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea, part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the south.
Geography of Benin. Benin, a narrow, key-shaped, north–south strip of land in West Africa, lies between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer. Its latitude ranges from 6°30 ′ N to 12°30 ′ N and its longitude from 1° E to 3°40 ′ E. It is bounded by Togo to the west, Burkina Faso and Niger to the north, Nigeria to the east, and the ...
At the beginning of 1994, relations between Ghana and Togo became even worse. On January 6, a commando attack occurred in Lomé, which Togolese authorities described as an attempt to overthrow Eyadéma. The Togolese government accused Ghana of direct or indirect involvement and arrested Ghana's chargé d'affaires in Lomé.