Ghana

Ghana

Ghana ranks 75th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Afghanistan, Armenia, and North Korea. Memorable people born in present day Ghana include Kofi Annan, Kwame Nkrumah, and Peter Turkson. Memorable people who died in Ghana include W. E. B. Du Bois, Alexander Selkirk, and John Atta Mills. Ghana has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated with the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to the east. Ghana covers an area of 239,567 km2 (92,497 sq mi), spanning diverse ecologies, from coastal savannas to tropical rainforests. With 35 million inhabitants, Ghana is the second-most populous country in West Africa. The capital and largest city is Accra; other significant cities include Tema, Kumasi, Sunyani, Ho, Cape Coast, Techiman, Tamale, and Sekondi-Takoradi. Read more on Wikipedia