Ghana

The country calling code for Ghana is +233. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Ghana number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Ghana is assigned GH as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and GHA as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Ghana is .gh. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Ghana is the Ghanaian cedi, with the ISO 4217 code GHS and the symbol ₵. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Ghana are quoted in GHS. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Ghana is UTC, currently UTC+00:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Ghana is Accra. Ghana sits in Africa, specifically the Western Africa subregion. Its approximate centre point is 8.00000000, -2.00000000. Traffic in Ghana drives on the right. Languages recorded for Ghana: English.

Ghana shares a land border with 3 countries: Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Togo. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.