Côte d'Ivoire
Burkina Faso
Togo
About Ghana
Ghana is a country in West Africa, one of the 54 countries of Africa on GlobeQuizz. Its full official name is Republic of Ghana. In Arabic, the name is written غانا, and the capital أكرا. Its geographic centre lies in the Northern and Western hemispheres.
The capital of Ghana is Accra. Accra lies at about 6° north and 0° west. The official language of Ghana is English. Its currency is the Ghanaian Cedi, with the symbol ₵ and the international code GHS.
Ghana covers about 238,533 square kilometres, which puts it 80th by area among the 195 countries on GlobeQuizz. It shares land borders with 3 countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, and Togo. The largest of these neighbours by area is Côte d'Ivoire. Other countries in West Africa include Niger, Mali, and Mauritania. Its flag is easy to confuse with the flag of Bolivia, a classic trap in the Hard level of the flags quiz. To practise flags, capitals and currencies, play the Africa quiz on GlobeQuizz, which mixes Ghana with the other countries of the same region.