Worth knowing
Ghana
Zero latitude, zero longitude is a patch of open sea about 570 km south of Ghana's coast. It is nicknamed Null Island, though there is no island there.
Where its story happens
Cape Three Points, Ghana's southern tip, at 4.74°N, 2.09°W. It's the place the game marks on the globe once the country is found. See it on a map.
Five things to know about Ghana
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Ghana, on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, between Côte d'Ivoire and Togo. See Ghana on a map.
- Once called the Gold Coast, it is the home of kente cloth and the birthplace of Kofi Annan.
- In 1957 it became the first country south of the Sahara to win independence from colonial rule.
- It took its name from a medieval trading empire that lay far to the northwest and never included it.
- The nearest land to the point where the equator meets the prime meridian belongs to this country.