Five equal horizontal bands of green (top and bottom) alternating with yellow; there is a white five-pointed star on a red square in the upper hoist-side corner; uses the popular pan-African colors of Ethiopia.
5 regions (regions, singular - region): De La Kara, Des Plateaux, Des Savanes, Centrale, and Maritime.
Population:
5,285,501 (July 2002 est.) estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS, this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
Languages:
French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)
Geographic coordinates:
8° 00' N, 1° 10' E
Area total:
56,785 sq. km
Land area:
54,385 sq. km
Water area:
2,400 sq. km
Total land boundaries:
1,647 km
Borders with neighbor countries:
Benin 644 km, Burkina Faso 126 km, Ghana 877 km
Coastline:
56 km
Elevation extremes:
Atlantic Ocean 0 m - Mont Agou 986 m
Internet country code:
.tg
Currency:
Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF) responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States
Name - conventional long form:
Togolese Republic
Name - conventional short form:
Togo
Name - local long form:
Republique Togolaise
Name - local short form:
none
Former name:
French Togoland
Independence:
27 April 1960 (from French-administered UN trusteeship)
Constitution:
multiparty draft constitution approved by High Council of the Republic 1 July 1992, adopted by public referendum 27 September 1992
Government type:
republic under transition to multiparty democratic rule