Ghana
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- GH
- ISO alpha-3
- GHA
- ISO numeric
- 288
- FIPS 10-4
- GH
- GeoNames ID
- 2300660
Key facts
- Capital
- Accra
- Area
- 239,460 km²
- Population
- 29,767,108
- Currency
- Cedi (GHS)
- Calling code
- +233
- Top-level domain
- .gh
- Official languages
- en-GH,ak,ee,tw
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 8.1
- Longitude
- -1.2
- Min latitude
- 4.737127997000073
- Min longitude
- -3.262509317999985
- Max latitude
- 11.16293731700003
- Max longitude
- 1.187968384000044
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/GH?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 239460,
"capital": "Accra",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "GHS",
"iso3_code": "GHA",
"iso_code": "GH",
"name": "Ghana",
"population": 29767108
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/GH/regions/v1/cities?country=GH/v1/postal-codes?country=GH/v1/timezones?country=GH
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- غانا
- Chinese
- 加纳
- English
- Ghana
- French
- Ghana
- German
- Ghana
- Hindi
- घाना
- Italian
- Ghana
- Japanese
- ガーナ
- Korean
- 가나
- Portuguese
- Gana
- Russian
- Гана
- Spanish
- Ghana
- Total language variants
- 143
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Accra | UTC+00:00 | UTC+00:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Greater Accra Region
- Ashanti Region
- Eastern Region
- Western Region
- Northern Region
- Volta Region
- Central Region
- Bono
- Bono East
- Upper East Region
- Western North
- Upper West Region
- Oti
- Savannah
- Ahafo
- North East
16 of 16 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Kumasi | 2,544,530 |
| Accra | 1,963,264 |
| Tamale | 464,316 |
| Takoradi | 389,114 |
| Sekondi | 285,506 |
| Cape Coast | 212,426 |
| Atsiaman | 202,932 |
| Ashaiman | 190,972 |
| Obuase | 179,604 |
| Tema | 155,782 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 15,997
- First-level regions
- 16
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 143
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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