TOGO
(Republic of Togo)
Capital: Scrap
Flag: national flag consists of five alternating horizontal strips of green and yellow colors. The five-pointed white star is in the center of a red square which covers height of three top strips.
Motto: Terre de nos aieux (Earth of our fathers).
MONETARY AND CREDIT BILETKA: "Guatemala Franchayer franc" (CFA Fr) - paper currency in 100 centimes. There are coins from 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 and 500 CFA francs and the banknote from 50, 100, 500, 1000, 5000 and 10000 CFA francs. CFA Fr1 = $0,00192 (or $1 = CFA Fr521.74) as of 2005.
WEIGHT AND MEASURES: the metric system is the legal standard.
HOLIDAYS: New year, on January 1; National Liberation Day, on January 13; Day of economic release, on January 24; Victory Day, on April 24; Independence Day, on April 27; Labor Day, on May 1; Day of martyrs, on June 21; Assumption, on August 15; All Saints' Day, on November 1; Anniversary of the unfortunate attack to Lome, on September 24; Christmas, on December 25. Moveable religious feasts include Easter Monday, Rise, Uitmondeyl, "Ides al-Fitr" and "Eid al-Adha".
TIME: GMT.
ARRANGEMENT, SIZE AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Located on the western coast of Africa, Togo has the area of 56 785 sq.km (21 925 sq. miles), 510 km long (317 miles) nanosecond and 140 km (87 miles). Rather, the area occupied with Togo is a little less, than in the State of West Virginia. Togo is limited on п to Burkina Faso, across Benin, on the bank of the gulf Guinea and on Ghana with a total length of border of 1703 km (1 058 miles) from which 56 km (35 miles) - the coastline.
The capital of Togo, Lome, is located on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea.
TOPOGRAPHY
Togo passes in the center for a chain of hills, Togo, stretches approximately for the southwest to Ghana and the northeast to Benin and averages about 700 m (2300 feet) in height. The highest height - Mt. Aga (986 m / 3,235 feet). To the North and the West from these hills the Oti River flows down in the southwest direction to the Volta River which makes a part of the upper bound with Ghana. To the north from the valley of the Oti River gently wavy savanna lies. From the southern spurs of the central hills of the plateau stretches gradually for the South to the coastal plain. The coastline consists of the flat sandy beach which is densely put by coconut trees and partially separated from the continent by lagoons and lakes which are the former estuariya of several rivers.
CLIMATE
Togo has humid tropical climate, but receives less rainfall, than the majority of other countries along the Gulf of Guinea. In the south there are two rainy seasons, from March till beginning of July and in September and October. The heaviest rainfall happens on hills in the West, the southwest and in the center where rainfall averages about 150 cm a year. To the north from Togo there is a rainy season which lasts from April to August. Rainfall in this region averages 100 cm (40 inches) a year. The coast receives the smallest amount of precipitation, about 78 cm (31 inches) a year.