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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage as described in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. [1] Ghana accepted the convention, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list.
Coordinates: 5°31′27″N 1°10′07″W. The Assin Manso Ancestral Slave River also called Nnonkonsuo or Donkor Nsuo (singular) was one of the slave markets for gathering indigenes during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. [1] [2] It is located in the Central Region of Ghana, forty (40) kilometers along the Cape Coast-Kumasi highway.
Mole National Park, one of Ghana's seven national parks, is the country's largest wildlife refuge. [ 1][ 2] The park is located in the Savannah region of Ghana on savanna and riparian ecosystems at an elevation of 50 m, with a sharp escarpment forming the southern boundary of the park. The Park is 24 km from Damongo, the district capital, 146 ...
Ghana. / 5.55500°N 0.19250°W / 5.55500; -0.19250. Ghana, [ a] officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It lies adjacent to the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing a border with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Togo in the east.
Kakum National Park. / 5.35361°N 1.38333°W / 5.35361; -1.38333. Kakum National Park, located in the coastal environs of the Central Region [ 1][ 2][ 3] of Ghana, [ 4] covers an area of 375 square kilometres (145 sq mi). Established in 1931 as a reserve, it was gazetted as a national park only in 1992 after an initial survey of ...
3,743 km². Established. 1971. Digya National Parkis the second largest national parkand the oldest protected areain Ghana. It is located in the Bono East Region.[1] It was created in 1900 and given national park status in 1971. The park is the only wildlife territory in Ghana to have Lake Voltaat its borders. Geography.
Ghana ranks as the seventieth-most stable country in the world and as the 58th–most peaceful country in the world. [5] In 2011, Ghana made $2.19 billion ($2,019,000,000) from the tourism sector, from an estimated 1.1 million international tourist arrivals. [6] [7] In 2012, Ghana's tourism sector made $1.7 billion from 993,600 international ...
Ghana is a West African country in Africa, along the Gulf of Guinea . Ghana encompasses plains, low hills, rivers, Lake Volta, the world's largest artificial lake, Dodi Island and Bobowasi Island on the south Atlantic Ocean coast of Ghana. Ghana can be divided into four different geographical ecoregions.