Togo

Facts

What the numbers say about Togo

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 299× the size of Togo.
• Togo ranks 101st of 237 by population but only 126th of 239 by area: it holds more people than its size suggests.
• At 137 people per km², Togo is the 50th most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Togo lies at 9°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.0×.
• Laid out flat, Togo's main territory stretches about 560 km north to south and 214 km east to west.
• Wikidata's official figure of 56,800 km² agrees with our measured area of 56,900 km², to within 2%.

How Togo measures up

Togo holds 0.2% of the land area and 0.6% of the people of the 54 countries listed for Africa. In Western Africa it is the 13th largest of 16.

Where Togo sits

• Togo's centre lies at 8.5°N, 1.0°E, in the northern and eastern hemispheres, about 950 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 6°N to 11°N, about 560 km from its southern edge to its northern.
• The prime meridian passes through it.

If Togo had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Togo would have 71.2 million people. It has 7.8 million.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Togo would have 211,000 people. It has 7.8 million.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 4.1 million.

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