Togo
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Togo is a narrow country in West Africa, just less than 57,000 square kilometers (22,000 sq mi) with a population of more than 6,600,000 people, which are dependent mainly on agriculture. The mild weather makes for good growing seasons as Togo is a tropical, sub-Saharan nation.

It is sandwiched between Ghana on the west and Benin on the east, with a small border with Burkina Faso to the north, and a 56km coastline on the Atlantic Ocean to the south.

In 1884, Germany declared a protectorate over a stretch of territory along the coast and gradually extended its control inland resulting in the German colony of Togoland in 1905. In August 1914, Togoland became two League of Nations mandates, administered by the United Kingdom and France. Later, the residents of British Togoland voted to join the Gold Coast as part of the new independent nation of Ghana, and French Togoland became an autonomous republic within the French Union.

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The climate is generally tropical with average temperatures ranging from 27°C on the coast to about 30°C in the northernmost regions, with a dry climate and characteristics of a tropical savanna. To the south there are two seasons of rain (the first between April and July and the second between October and November).