africa • TGO
Togo
Location marker · geographic overview
8° N / 1.17° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Lomé
- Population
- 8,406,558 2024
- Area
- 56,785 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- French
- Currency
- West African CFA franc (XOF)
- Geography
- Coastal country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Togo
Togo is a narrow country in West Africa, sandwiched between Ghana on the west and Benin on the east.
Landscape & landmarks
Lomé's markets, both general and voodoo, are the most popular stop in the country along the road between Ghana and Benin. The smaller towns of Togoville on Lake Togo and Aneho on the ocean are also popular stops for the former's voodoo shrines and historic sights and the latter's beaches.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
Akume is made from corn flour. The "national" dish of West-Africa is Fufu. In Togo, it consists of white yams pounded into a doughy consistency. You will find plenty of Fufu Restaurants in the cities as well as roadside stands. Akume and Fufu are usually eaten with your hands and come with different sauces (from smoked fish to spicy tomato to peanut).Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-08-22. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Western Africa
- Calling code
- +228
- Internet domain
- .tg
- Land border codes
- BEN, BFA, GHA
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .tg. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.