Capital:
Lomé
Area:
56,800 sq km / 21,930 sq ml
Language:
French, Ewe, Kabre, Gurma
Currency:
Franc CFA
Population:
5,429,299
Life expectancy:
53 (men), 57 (women)
Literacy rate:
56%
Religions:
Animist, Catholic, Muslim, Protestant
Physical features:
Savanna plains divided by a range of hills running north east and south west
Ethnic distribution:
Hamitic origin in the north and black Africans in the south
Exports:
Phosphates, cocoa, coffee, coconuts, cotton, palm kernels
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