Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Accra
- Region
- Africa, Western Africa
- Population
- 35,064,272 (2025)
- Area
- 239,460 km²
- Currency
- Ghanaian cedi (GHS)
- Languages
- English, Akan, Ewe, Twi
- Calling code
- +233
- Internet domain
- .gh
- ISO codes
- GH, GHA, 288
- Time zone
- UTC
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- @@-###-####|@@-### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Ghana covers about 239,460 square kilometres. By area it ranks 82nd among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than United Kingdom and a little larger than Romania. It shares a land border with 3 neighbours: Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo. Its centre lies at about 8° north, 2° west, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 35.1 million people live in Ghana (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 47th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.43 percent of the world's people. On average there are 146 people to each square kilometre. About 59 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 66 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English, Akan, Ewe, Twi. A person from Ghana is called Ghanaian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Ghanaian cedi (code GHS, symbol ₵). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 114 billion (2025), which is about US$ 3,257 for each person (2025).
Time
Ghana uses one time zone, UTC (Africa/Accra). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Kumasi | 2,544,530 |
| Accra | 1,963,264 |
| Tamale | 464,316 |
| Takoradi | 389,114 |
| Sekondi | 285,506 |
| Cape Coast | 212,426 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Western Africa
Benin, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.