Area > Comparative to US places
slightly smaller than Oregon |
|
View time series
|
|
Capital city with population
|
Accra - 1,970,400 |
|
|
|
DEFINITION: Capital cities including most recent population (estimates included). Populations are figures only within the city limits, unless otherwise specified. All populations are from 2001 t0 2005 unless otherwise specified. |
|
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
|
Forested Land
|
27.8% |
|
[99th of 193]
|
|
DEFINITION: Forested land as a proportion of total land area, estimate by FAO |
|
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook, City Population, CIA World Factbook, World Gazetteer, Official government websites. |
|
Geographic coordinates
|
8 00 N, 2 00 W |
|
|
|
DEFINITION: This entry includes rounded latitude and longitude figures for the purpose of finding the approximate geographic center of an entity and is based on the Gazetteer of Conventional Names, Third Edition, August 1988, US Board on Geographic Names and on other sources. |
View time series
|
|
SOURCE: FAO |
|
Largest city population
|
1,673,000 |
|
[63rd of 174]
|
|
DEFINITION: The population of the country's largest city |
|
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
|
Largest city with population
|
Accra - 1,970,400 |
|
|
|
DEFINITION: Largest cities including most recent population (estimates included). Populations are figures only within the city limits, unless otherwise specified. All populations are from 2001 t0 2005 unless otherwise specified. |
|
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook |
|
Population density
|
82.11 people per sqkm |
|
[110th of 256]
|
|
DEFINITION: People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42. |
|
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook, City Population, CIA World Factbook, World Gazetteer, Official government websites. |
|
Population density > people per sq. km
|
97.18 people/m²
|
|
[88th of 204]
|
|
DEFINITION: Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes. |
View time series
|
|
SOURCE: Heal The World Foundation. |
|
Rural population density > rural population per sq. km of arable land
|
272.28 people/km² of arable lan |
|
[95th of 188]
|
|
DEFINITION: Rural population density is the rural population divided by the arable land area. Rural population is calculated as the difference between the total population and the urban population. Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded. |
View time series
|
|
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
|
Surface area > sq. km
|
238,540 km²
|
|
[80th of 206]
|
|
DEFINITION: Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways. |
View time series
|
|
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
|
tallest mountains > Mountain
|
Mount Afadjato |
|
|
|
DEFINITION:
|
|
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
del.icio.us
There are 1 more (non-authoritative) comments on this page
Feeds |
Contact