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Ghana (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 08 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 8.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 002 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -2.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: An ancient empire flourished in the area of modern Ghana in the 13th century; other important native states were founded in the 14th-19th centuries; the Portuguese arrived in 1482; the area was captured by the Dutch in 1637; it was a center for the slave trade of Dutch, English, French, and Danish from the 17th-19th centuries; it was purchased by the British in the 19th century; official language is English, although French and African languages are also spoken, including Akan, Mole-Dagbani and Ewe. |
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| Ghana (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Ghana (Tagalog)
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| Ghana (Malagasy)
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| Ghana (Vietnamese)
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| Ghana (Ilocano)
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| Ghana (Indonesian)
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| Ghana (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Ghana (Danish)
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| Ghana (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Ghana (Finnish)
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| Ghana (Swedish)
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| Ghana (Polish)
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| Ghana (Romanian)
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| Ghana (Slovak)
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| Ghana (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Ghana (Catalan)
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| Ghana (Basque)
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| Ghana (Aragonese)
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| Ghana (Asturian)
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| Ghana (Welsh)
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| Ghana (German)
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| Ghana (Low German)
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| Ghana (Breton)
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| Ghana (Cornish)
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| Ghana (Czech)
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| Ghana (Dutch)
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| Ghana (Afrikaans)
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| Ghana (French-P,U,N)
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| Ghana (Faroese)
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| Ghana (Italian)
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| Ghana (Estonian)
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| Ghana (Greenlandic)
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| Ghana (Occitan)
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| Ghana (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Ghana (Romansh)
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| Ghana (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Ghana (North Ndebele)
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| Ghana (Norwegian)
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| Ghana (Pampanga)
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| Ghana (Northern Sami)
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| Ghana (Shona)
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| Ghana (Swahili (generic))
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| Ghana (Ido)
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| Ghana (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Ghana (Limburgan)
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| Ghana (Twi)
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| Republic of Ghana (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| République du Ghana (C,O,French,U,N)
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| República de Ghana (C,O,Spanish,U)
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| Gana (C,O,Quechuan)
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| Gana (Rundi)
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| Gana (Nauruan)
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| Gana (Maltese)
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| Gana (Turkmen)
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| Gana (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Gana (Bambara)
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| Gana (Croatian)
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| Gana (Bosnian)
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| Gana (Latin)
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| Gana (Latvian)
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| Gana (Lingala)
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| Gana (Portuguese)
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| Gana (Slovene)
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| Gana (Walloon)
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| Gana (Kurdish)
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| Gana (Hausa)
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| Gana (Albanian)
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| Gana (Galician)
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| Gana (Icelandic)
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| Gana (Sicilian)
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| Gana (Lithuanian)
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| Gana (Tetum)
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| Gana (Turkish)
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| Gana (Arpitan)
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| Гана (C,O,Tajik)
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| Гана (Serbian)
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| Гана (Macedonian)
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| Гана (Bulgarian)
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| Гана (Russian-P,U)
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| Гана (Ukrainian)
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| Гана (Belarusian)
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| Республика Гана (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 加纳 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 加纳共和国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| غانا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| جُهور ةً غانا (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| GHA (C,O,ISO3L)
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| GH (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO288 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Ghanaian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Ghanan (C,O)
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| Ghananian (C,O)
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| גאנה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Gaana (C,U,Somali)
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| Gaana (Akan)
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| Gána (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Ganaa (C,U,Fulah)
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| Ganäa (C,U,Sangho)
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| Gana - Ghana (C,U,Galician)
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| Ganän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Ganao (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Ganë (C,U,Albanian)
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| Gha-na (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ghána (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Gha-na (Ghana) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Ghana nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Gold Coast (C,U)
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| i-Ghana (C,U,Zulu)
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| Kana (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Ngana (C,U,Kikuyu)
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| Ngana (Luba-Katanga)
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| Orílẹ́ède Gana (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Qana (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| ഘാന (C,U,Malayalam)
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| கானா (C,U,Tamil)
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| غنا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| घाना (C,U,Marathi)
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| घाना (Hindi)
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| घाना (Nepali)
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| ហ្កាណា (C,U,Khmer)
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| 가나 (C,U,Korean)
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| গানা (C,U,Bengali)
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| ཀ་ན། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| განა (C,U,Georgian)
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| گانا جۇمھۇرىيىتى (C,U,Uyghur)
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| ګانا (C,U,Pashto)
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| ການ່າ (C,U,Lao)
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| ガーナ (C,U,Japanese)
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| Γκάνα (C,U,Greek)
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| ጋና (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ጋና (Amharic)
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| ประเทศกานา (C,U,Thai)
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| กาน่า (C,U,Thai)
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| Գանա (C,U,Armenian)
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| قانا (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| ఘానా (C,U,Telugu)
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| ଘାନା (C,U,Odia)
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| ඝානාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| گھانا (C,U,Urdu)
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| ઘાના (C,U,Gujarati)
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| ಘಾನಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| غەنا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| ঘানা (C,U,Bengali)
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| ガーナ共和国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| กานา (C,U,Thai)
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| གྷ་ན། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ഖാന (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ဂါနာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| Gold Coast Colony (H,O,English,U,N)
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
............ |
gained independence 1957 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| republic (C) |
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established 1960 |
| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| controlled region (H) |
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| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Accra .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Ghana, Greater Accra) [7016412] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1957 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1957 |
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