Map of Ghana

Ghana is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 8.0° N, 2.0° W. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire and Togo — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Ghana is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Ghana shares land frontiers with the following 3 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Ghana covers about 238,533 km² (92,098 sq mi). That makes it the 80th-largest country in the world by area and the 33rd-largest in Africa, larger by area than 21 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 33,742,380, the 46th-largest in the world and the 14th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 2.3% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Ghana has an average population density of about 141 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 14th by population and 33rd by area.

The seat of government is Accra, and the official currency is the Ghanaian cedi (GHS, ₵), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Ghana carries the ISO country codes GH and GHA, dials on the international calling code +233 and uses the .gh internet domain.

Ghana shares its land borders with 3 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Cote d'Ivoire (capital Yamoussoukro, about 31,719,275 people), Burkina Faso (capital Ouagadougou, about 24,070,553 people) and Togo (capital Lomé, about 8,095,498 people).

By area, Ghana is larger than 1 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 8.0° N, 2.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Ghana within Africa. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Accra. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Ghana lies about 888 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Ghana keeps a single standard time zone, UTC. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit +00:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Ghanaian cedi (GHS, ₵).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +233 and websites commonly use the .gh internet domain.

In short, Ghana is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Accra. Ghana has a population of about 33,742,380 and covers around 238,533 km² (92,098 sq mi), ranking it 46th in the world by population and 80th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Ghana.

The flag of Ghana is composed of three equal horizontal bands of red, gold and green, with a five-pointed black star centered in the gold band.

The flag of Ghana is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.