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| capital | Lome |
| currency | African Financial Community Franc (XOF) 1 XOF = 1.0000 XAF 1 XOF = 65.0000 GWP 1 XOF = 0.0015 EUR |
| population | 7,797,694（2017） |
| Power Systems | 220 volts / 50 Hz (European plug) |
| country code | 228 |
| Time zone | UTC±00:00 |
| Language | French |
| Emergency call | 118 (fire department), 117 (police agency), 171 (police agency), 228-172 (police agency) |
| Driving direction | right |
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Togolese Republic，West AfricaOne of the countries, east andBenin, North andBurkina Faso, Seomyeon andGhanaAdjacent. A short stretch of coastline to the south faces the Gulf of Guinea. The capital and largest city areLome。
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history
From the 15th century, Portuguese, British, French and other colonists invaded the coast to trade slaves, called the "Slave Coast". German forces invaded in 1856 and became a German protectorate (colony) in 1884, called "Togoland" until 1918. After World War I, the eastern and western parts became the mandates of Britain and France; after World War II, it became the trusteeship. France was authorized by the United Nations to trust French Togoland, including Ghana. In 1957, the west was merged into Ghana, 1960 The Eastern Trust expired on April 27, 2015 and became independent and established the Togolese Republic.
A multi-party system was established in the 1990s, but the army has not lost its almost continuous ruling position since 1967. Silfanas Olympio (1901-1963) became president when Togo became independent in 1960. When he refused to join the Togolese army by 626 French veterans of Togolese nationality who had mostly participated in the wars in Indochina and Algeria, he was overthrown by those soldiers in a coup d’état launched on January 13, 1963. He was overthrown the next day. kill. President Nicholas Grunizic (1913-1969), a non-military background, came to power. But just four years later, another armed coup took place, and Grunizic fled Togo and died in a car accident in Côte d’Ivoire. One of the veterans who initiated the 1963 coup, Nassingbe Eyadema (1937-2005), became president in 1967 until his death in 2005. He was almost defeated by Gilchrist Olympio, the son of Silfanas Olympio, in the 1998 election. In 2003, after the constitutional restriction on the number of re-elections of the president was lifted, Eyadema was re-elected as president. According to Eyadema’s death announcement, his son Faure Nassingbe was designated by the army as the head of state. The African Union described this takeover as an armed coup.
On April 24, 2005, the Togo presidential election was held. On April 26, the Independent Electoral Commission announced the victory of the candidate of the Togolese People’s Union, Faure Nassingbe. On June 20, a government with Edem Kojo as prime minister was formed. On September 20, 2006, a government headed by Prime Minister Aboibo was formed.
geography
Togo is located in West Africa, bordering the Gulf of Benin in the south, Ghana in the west, Benin in the east, and Burkina Faso in the north; the border is long and narrow from the north to the south.
There are many hills and highlands in the inland, with an altitude of 200-500 meters; the Baumann peak (Baumann peak) is 986 meters above sea level, the highest point in the country; there are marshes, lagoons and sandbars along the coast. There is a slightly undulating savanna in the north and mountains in the middle; in the south there is a plateau extending to the coastal plain full of vast lagoons and marshes.
Togo has a tropical grassland and tropical rain forest climate, with an annual rainfall of 800-1800 mm.
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area
| Coastal area（Lome） The Atlantic coast and the must-visit areas for most tourists |
| Central Togo Rolling hills and forests, less people visit here |
| North Togo（Kara） The land of ken worship |
