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Ghana is a West African country, bounded to the north by Burkina Faso, to the east by Togo, south by the Atlantic Ocean, and west by Côte d’Ivoire. Formerly a British colony known as the Gold Coast, Ghana was led to independence by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on 6th March 1957. Ghana became the first nation in sub-Saharan Africa to achieve independence from colonial rule. The country is named after the ancient empire of Ghana, from which the ancestral inhabitants of the present country are thought to have migrated.
Ghana is divided into 10 administrative regions, subdivided into a total of 170 districts. The regions are:
