What the records say
- When
- 1957
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Gold Coast
- Coordinates
- 7.72° N, 1.04° W
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 6250000
- Area km2
- 204097
- Gaining
- Ghana
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Gold Coast (British colony)
British colony in Africa from 1821 to 1957
The Colony of the Gold Coast was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence as Ghana in 1957. The term Gold Coast may also refer collectively to the four separate jurisdictions administered by the Governor of the Gold Coast: the colony proper, Ashanti, the Northern Territories, and British Togoland.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation