Gold Coast (region)
Coastal region of West Africa known for its natural resources / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the African region. For other uses, see Gold Coast (disambiguation).
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Gold Coast | |
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Status | Currently the Republic of Ghana |
Demonym(s) | Gold Coastian or Gold Coaster (Ghanaian) |
Area | |
• Total | 238,535 km2 (92,099 sq mi) |
Population | |
• Estimate | about 31,072,945[1] |
Time zone | UTC+0 (GMT) |
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The Gold Coast was the name for a region on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa that was rich in gold, petroleum, sweet crude oil and natural gas. This former region is now known as the country Ghana.