Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Lomé
- Region
- Africa, Western Africa
- Population
- 8,591,626 (2025)
- Area
- 56,785 km²
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Languages
- French, Ewe, Mina (Cameroon), Kabiyè, Dagbani
- Calling code
- +228
- Internet domain
- .tg
- ISO codes
- TG, TGO, 768
- Time zone
- UTC
- United Nations
- Member state
Land and position
Togo covers about 56,785 square kilometres. By area it ranks 128th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Svalbard and Jan Mayen and a little larger than Croatia. It shares a land border with 3 neighbours: Burkina Faso, Benin, Ghana. Its centre lies at about 8° north, 1° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 8.59 million people live in Togo (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 102nd most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.1 percent of the world's people. On average there are 151 people to each square kilometre. About 44 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 63 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: French, Ewe, Mina (Cameroon), Kabiyè, Dagbani, Hausa. A person from Togo is called Togolese.
Money and economy
The currency is the West African CFA franc (code XOF, symbol Fr). It is also the main currency of Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal. The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 11.9 billion (2025), which is about US$ 1,384 for each person (2025).
Time
Togo uses one time zone, UTC (Africa/Lome). 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 |
|---|---|
| Lomé | 2,188,376 |
| Sokodé | 117,811 |
| Kara | 104,207 |
| Atakpamé | 80,683 |
| Kpalimé | 75,084 |
| Bassar | 61,845 |
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
Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, 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.