Map of Togo

Togo is located in Africa. Its territory lies in the northern and eastern hemispheres, centred near 8.0° N, 1.2° E. It shares land borders with 3 countries — Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana — and also has its own coastline. Within Africa, a continent of 54 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, Togo is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

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

Togo covers about 56,785 km² (21,925 sq mi). That makes it the 123rd-largest country in the world by area and the 41st-largest in Africa, larger by area than 13 of the continent’s 54 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 8,095,498, the 102nd-largest in the world and the 34th-largest in Africa, accounting for about 0.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Togo has an average population density of about 143 people per km². Among the 54 countries of Africa it stands 34th by population and 41st by area.

The seat of government is Lomé, and the official currency is the West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr), and the main official language is French. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC.

Togo carries the ISO country codes TG and TGO, dials on the international calling code +228 and uses the .tg internet domain.

Togo 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 Ghana (capital Accra, about 33,742,380 people), Burkina Faso (capital Ouagadougou, about 24,070,553 people) and Benin (capital Porto-Novo, about 13,224,860 people).

By area, Togo is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 3 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, 1.2° E and opens at zoom level 7, framing Togo 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 Lomé. 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.

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

Togo 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 West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr).

The official language is French, 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 +228 and websites commonly use the .tg internet domain.

In short, Togo is a coastal country in Africa, sharing land borders with 3 countries. Its capital is Lomé. Togo has a population of about 8,095,498 and covers around 56,785 km² (21,925 sq mi), ranking it 102nd in the world by population and 123rd by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Togo.

The flag of Togo is composed of five equal horizontal bands of green alternating with yellow. A red square bearing a five-pointed white star is superimposed in the canton.

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