• Ghana is located in West Africa, bordered by Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Togo, Gulf of Guinea, and Atlantic Ocean.
• It covers 239,567 km² and has over 35 million people, making it the thirteenth most populous country in Africa.
• The capital city is Accra.

• Early kingdoms included Bonoman and the Kingdom of Dagbon.
• The Portuguese and later European powers contested for trading rights from the 15th century.
• Ghana gained independence on March 6, 1957, becoming the first Sub-Saharan African country to do so.

• Ghana is multi-ethnic, with the Akan as the largest group; most Ghanaians are Christians.
• The country is a unitary constitutional democracy.
• It has a high governance ranking in Africa and is a founding member of several organizations including the African Union.

List of newspapers published in Ghana.