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Gold Coast

Currently the Republic of Ghana

Gold Coastian or Gold Coaster (Ghanaian)

238,535 km2 (92,099 sq mi)

about 31,072,945[1]

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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.

(Portuguese, 1482–1642)

Portuguese Gold Coast

(Dutch, 1598–1872)

Dutch Gold Coast

(Swedes, 1650–1658; 1660–1663)

Swedish Gold Coast

(Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, 1651–1661)

Couronian Gold Coast

(Denmark-Norway, 1658–1850)

Danish Gold Coast

and Prussian Gold Coast (Germans, 1682–1721)

Brandenburger Gold Coast

(English, 1821–1957)

British Gold Coast

Gold Coast region territorial entities were:


Ghana is the legal name for the region loosely referred to as the Gold Coast comprising the following four separate parts, which immediately before independence had distinct constitutional positions:[2]


The United Kingdom government was responsible for shepherding through the Ghana Independence Act 1957 with Charles Arden-Clarke. Lord Listowel explained that the name was chosen "in accordance with the wishes of the Gold Coastian population".[3]

Birimian

Convention People's Party

Early history of Ghana

Geology of Ghana

Kwame Nkrumah

and The Big Six

United Gold Coast Convention