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Ghana’s population is estimated at 24 million, roughly ten percent of whom live in and around the capital city of Accra. Other major urban centres include Kumasi, Tamale, Tema, Takoradi and Cape Coast. More than 70 languages and major dialects are spoken countrywide, classified in four linguistic groups: Akan, Mole-Dagbani, Ewe and Ga. The most widespread Akan language is Twi, which is spoken by roughly half the population, including the Asante (Ashanti) people of Kumasi and the coastal Fante. Two-thirds of Ghanaians are Christians, another 15% Islamic, the remainder adhere to animist beliefs. |
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Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleam
This museum holds the remains of the first President of Ghana Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. The Museum was created in his honor after which his body was exhumed from his original burial grounds at his home town-Nkroful. |
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Cape Coast Castle
Dating to 1482, the imposing St George’s Castle in Elmina is the oldest European building in the sub-Saharan Africa. Though greatly expanded under Dutch occupation, the original Portuguese fortress and chapel are still intact and now function as a local history museum. |
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Gold Mines
After the establishment of a maritime trade with the Portuguese in 1471, Ghana supplied up to 10% of the gold imported to Europe. Since the 1990s, a resurgent mining industry has led to Ghana becoming Africa’s second largest gold-producer. |
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The Volta River
The mighty Volta River, which empties into the Atlantic along Ghana’s east coast, has a catchment area that sprawls across the borders of six West African countries. It also feeds the world’s largest artificial water body, the 850,000ha Lake Volta, created in 1966 by the construction of a 370m wide, 124m tall dam at Akosombo in southern Ghana |
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