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Togo 🇹🇬

Togo is a country in Africa with a population of 8,848,699. Its capital is Lomé. The official currency is XOF, and the main languages are French.

Quick facts

  • Capital: Lomé
  • Continent: Africa
  • Population: 8,848,699
  • Area: 56,785 km²
  • Density: 156 people per km²
  • Currency: XOF
  • Languages: French
  • ISO code: TG

Where Togo sits

Togo 🇹🇬 is one of 54 countries in Africa, with its capital at Lomé. It covers 56,785 square kilometres — 123rd in the world — and is home to about 8,848,699 people, 100th globally.

The countries it shares a continent with include Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. If you are learning geography region by region — which works far better than alphabetically, because memory for places is spatial — those are the ones to learn alongside it.

How Togo compares

Raw figures are hard to hold on their own, so it helps to anchor them. In population, Togo sits closest to Austria and Switzerland. In land area, its nearest counterparts are Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

At 156 people per square kilometre it is about 2.6 times the world average of 59.4. It ranks higher by population than by area, so it is more crowded than its size alone suggests.

French is an official language in 30 countries here, among them Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso and Burundi, and 25 others. The XOF is shared with 7 other countries, including Benin, Burkina Faso and Guinea-Bissau, and 4 others.

To see Togo next to every other country, sort the country rankings by population, area or density; its currency and languages are listed alongside every other country's in world currencies and world languages.

How to remember Togo

Togo is a thin strip of a country, and Lomé sits on its short coast right next to the Ghana border. For the flag: five stripes for five regions, with a white star in a red corner.

The flag of Togo: green and yellow, with a red square and a white star

🇹🇬 The flag is five horizontal stripes of green and yellow, with a red square in the top-left corner holding a white five-pointed star. The five stripes stand for the country's regions, green for hope and farming, yellow for faith that hard work will bring prosperity, red for loyalty and love of country, and the white star for life, peace and independence.

Region and neighbours

Togo is a narrow country in West Africa that runs north from a short coastline on the Gulf of Guinea. It shares land borders with 3 countries: Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin.

Three facts about Togo

  1. Togo's coastline on the Gulf of Guinea is only about 56 km long.
  2. Koutammakou, the land of the Batammariba people, known for its tall mud tower-houses, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  3. Lomé is both the capital and the country's main port.

Sources: Wikipedia: Togo, Wikipedia: Flag of Togo, Wikipedia: Lomé, CIA World Factbook.

Quiz yourself on Togo

Quizzes that include Togo

Three angles are worth covering for any country — where it is, what its flag looks like, and what its capital is. For Togo those are:

Doing all three for one continent before moving on is far more efficient than learning flags globally, then capitals globally, then the map.

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Frequently asked questions

What are the colours of the Togo flag?

The flag of Togo is five horizontal stripes of green and yellow, with a red square in the top-left corner holding a white five-pointed star. The five stripes stand for the country's regions, green for hope and farming, yellow for faith that hard work will bring prosperity, red for loyalty and love of country, and the white star for life, peace and independence.

Which countries border Togo?

Togo shares land borders with Ghana, Burkina Faso and Benin.

How can I remember the capital of Togo?

Togo is a thin strip of a country, and Lomé sits on its short coast right next to the Ghana border. For the flag: five stripes for five regions, with a white star in a red corner.