Ghana History, Geography, Economy and Important Events

The first permanent state in the territory of present-day Ghana was the 11th century Bono State. Many kingdoms and empires emerged over the centuries, of which he was the most powerful, the Kingdom of Dagbon and the Ashanti Empire also ruled the country of Ghana. In the early 15th century, the Portuguese Empire, which was followed by several other European powers, contested the territory of Ghana for trading rights, until the British established control of the coast by the end of the 19th century. After a century of native resistance, Ghana's borders now run along the lines of four separate British colonial territories: the Gold Coast, the Unrest, the Northern Territory, and British Togoland. Who were unified as an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth on 6 March 1957.

Ghana is located in the Gulf of Guinea, only a few degrees north of the equator, so the climate here is warm. Ghana is spread over an area of ​​238,535 km2. Ghana is geographically closer to the "center" of the geographic coordinates of the Earth than any other country. Ghana's climate is tropical, the wet season and the dry season being the two main seasons. In addition, some diseases like malaria and cholera also remain susceptible due to the changing weather conditions in Ghana.

Ghana is an average natural resource rich country with industrial minerals, hydrocarbons and precious metals. This country has an economic planning target known as "Ghana Vision 2020". The plan states Ghana as a developed country between 2020 and 2029 and the first country to become a newly industrialized country between 2030 and 2039. Ghana has huge gold reserves in the Ghanaian economy. In 2013, the Bank of Ghana began disseminating Renminbi as a hard currency with the National Ghana Cedi for the second national trade currency for Ghana's state-owned banks and the Ghanaian public. The state-owned Volta River Authority and the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation are the two major electricity producers.

Ghana is a multilingual country in which about eighty languages ​​are spoken. Of these, English, which was inherited from the colonial era, is the official language and lingua franca. Among the languages ​​indigenous to Ghana, Akan is the most widely spoken. Ghana has more than seventy ethnic groups, each with its own separate language. Languages ​​belonging to the same ethnic group are usually mutually intelligible. For example, the Dagbanali and Mumpel languages ​​of the Northern region are mutually intelligible with the Fafra and Vali languages ​​of the Upper West region of Ghana. These four languages ​​are of Mol-Dagbani ethnicity.

Burkina Faso [L] , Ivory Coast [LM] , Togo [LM] ,
Definition of international border: L = Land Border | M = Maritime Border