$15.00 Ghana
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Preview: ... opean states flourished after contact with the Portuguese in the 15th century, and the British established a crown colony, Gold Coast, in 1874. The Gold Coast achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1957, becoming the first Sub-Saharan African nation to do so and the name Ghana was chosen for the new ...
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$15.00 All about Ghana
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Preview: ... ing, fishing, aluminum, tourism. Trade (2008, United Nations): Exports --$4.03 billion: gold ($1.8 billion), cocoa ($1.1 billion), timber, diamonds, manganese. Imports --$9.048 billion: petroleum ($1.15 billion), food, industrial raw materials, machinery, equipment. Major trade partners --Nigeria, China, U.S., U.K., Germany, Togo, France, Netherlands, Spain. Fiscal year: Calendar year. GEOGRAPHY Ghana is located on West Africa's Gulf of Guinea only a few degrees north of the Equator. Half of the country lies less than 152 meters (500 ft.) above sea level, and the highest point is 883 meters (2,900 ft.). The 537-kilometer (334-mi.) coastline is mostly a low, sandy shore backed by plains and scrub and intersected by several rivers and streams, most of which are navigable only by canoe. A tropical rain forest belt, broken by heavily forested hills and many streams and rivers, extends northward from the shore, near the Cote d'Ivoire frontier. This area produces most of th ...
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