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Togo

The cloth traders of Lomé were known as the Nana Benz. At their peak in the 1970s they dominated the trade in Dutch-made wax-print fabric from the city's Grand Market.

Where its story happens

Lomé, at 6.13°N, 1.22°E. 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 Togo

In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the hard countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.

  1. Where it is. It's Togo, a narrow strip of West Africa between Ghana and Benin. See Togo on a map.
  2. It is a thin sliver of a country, with only about 56 km of coast, and its capital is Lomé.
  3. It was a German colony until the First World War, when it was divided between Britain and France.
  4. In its north, families live in two-storey mud tower-houses that have become a national symbol.
  5. Its market women grew so rich trading printed cloth that they were nicknamed after the Mercedes-Benz cars they drove.

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