Sokodé

Sokodé – the second-largest city of Togo (Africa), has 86 500 inhabitants (2004). The town is situated 339 km north of the capital of Togo – Lomé, in the central part of the country, between the rivers and Mo Mono.

In the fall sports club operates Semassi F.C..

With Sokodé derives the current president of Togo – Faure Gnassingbé.

Lomé

Lomé, the city and the capital of Togo, a State in western Africa. Niewolniczym located on the coast on the Gulf of Guinea; Administrative Region Maritime Center.

Population: approximately 750 thousand. (2003)

Location: 63 meters

Geographic Location: 06 ° 13’33 N, 01 ° 21’67 E

Lomé is the main administrative center and main port and industrial Togo. Airport; university, national museum, founded at the end of the eighteenth century.

Lomé belonged to a German colony in west Africa, and in 1897 became the capital of the colony.

Chair, stylized to the Romanesque.

Atakpamé

Atakpamé – a town in the middle of Togo; Plateaux region’s administrative center; 78 190 inhabitants (2008). Commercial center in the region growing cotton, cereals, cocoa, cotton waste, thermal power station. Fourth-largest city in the country.

Railway

Rail travel throughout Togo is no longer all tracks, trains and stations are only ruins.

Geography

Togo is a small, thin sub-Saharan nation. It borders the Bight of Benin in the south; Ghana lies to the west; Benin to the east; and to the north Togo is bound by Burkina Faso.

In the north the land is characterized by a gently rolling savanna in contrast to the center of the country, which is characterized by hills. The south of Togo is characterized by a plateau which reaches to a coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes. The land size is 21,925 square miles (56,785 km²), with an average population density of 253 people per square mile (98/km²). In 1914 it changed from Togoland to Togo.

Akloa Falls

Togo’s best waterfall is the 35m (115ft) Akloa Falls. It’s like something out of a shampoo commercial: water gushing down a cliff, and people frolicking in the pool below, surrounded by lush vegetation. The falls are accessed via a strenuous climb that follows the Domi River and passes through coffee fields, pineapple plantations and a butterfly garden.

When to Go

Togo spans six geographic zones and ranges in climate from the tropical south to semi-arid north, which make planning a trip a tricky affair. One of the best times to visit is mid-June to mid-July. This is after the heaviest early rains have passed, and the country is humid but not scorching hot. The period from March to May can be a real scorcher. The July to September and November to February periods are the driest but also coincide with the choking, dust-laden harmattan winds and with poor visibility, it is rotten time for photographers. If you’re sticking close to the coastline, December to March is the area’s ‘tourist season,’ as the harmattan only makes it through to the coast a few times.

Major roads are dependable throughout the year, but unsealed roads, such as those in the national parks, can be impassable during and after the rains.

Lomé

Lomé, estimated population 700,000 (1998), is the capital and largest city of Togo. Located on the Gulf of Guinea, Lomé is the country’s administrative and industrial centre and its chief port. The city exports coffee, cocoa, copra, and palm kernels. It also has an oil refinery.

The Togolese Republic

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa bordering Ghana in the west, Benin in the east and Burkina Faso in the north. In the south, it has a short Gulf of Guinea coast, on which the capital Lomé is located. The official language is French, however there are many other languages spoken beside that.