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Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Capital: Accra

Area: 227,533 km²

Population: 27,499,924

Former Name: Gold Coast

Neighbouring Countries: ← Cote d’Ivoire , ↑ Burkina Faso , → Togo

Religions: Christian 71.2% (Pentecostal/Charismatic 28.3%, Protestant 18.4%, Catholic 13.1%, other 11.4%), Muslim 17.6%, traditional 5.2%, other 0.8%, none 5.2%

Languages: Asante 16%, Ewe 14%, Fante 11.6%, Boron (Brong) 4.9%, Dagomba 4.4%, Dangme 4.2%, Dagarte (Dagaba) 3.9%, Kokomba 3.5%, Akyem 3.2%, Ga 3.1%, other 31.2%

Ethnic Groups: Akan 47.5%, Mole-Dagbon 16.6%, Ewe 13.9%, Ga-Dangme 7.4%, Gurma 5.7%, Guan 3.7%, Grusi 2.5%, Mande 1.1%, other 1.4%

Motto: Freedom and Justice (English)

Area: 238,533 km²

Catholic Population: 4,130,000 Catholics (13.0% of 31,866,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 719 parishes, 3,579 mission stations (47 with resident priest, 3,532 without resident priest), 354 other centres

Clergy: 27 bishops (20 diocesan, 7 titular), 1,929 priests (1,532 diocesan, 397 religious)

Non-Clergy: 1,407 religious (236 brothers, 1,171 sisters), 1 member of secular institutes (brother), 1,043 major seminarians, 895 missionaries, 7,780 catechists