Gold Coast Colony
Also known as Gold Coast, Ghana
former British colony (1867-1957), now Ghana
Key facts
- 1924
- 207,199 km (80,000 sq mi)
- Status
- Colony of the United Kingdom
- Capital
- Cape Coast (1821–1877), Accra (1877–1957)
- Common languages
- English (official), French , Ga , Akan , Ewe language , Dangme , Dagbani , Dagaare , Gonja , Kasena , Nzema widely spoken
- Religion
- Christianity , Islam , Traditional African religions
- 1821 1830 first
- George IV
- 1830 1837 second
- William IV
- 1837 1901 third
- Victoria
- 1901 1910 fourth
- Edward VII
- 1910 1936 fifth
- George V
- 1936 1936 sixth
- Edward VIII
- 1936 1952 seventh
- George VI
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Today part ofGhana
The Colony of the Gold Coast, or simply the Gold Coast, was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana. The term Gold Coast is also often used to describe all of the four separate jurisdictions that were under the administration of the Governor of the Gold Coast. These were the Gold Coast itself, Ashanti, the Northern Territories protectorate and the British Togoland trust territory. The Gold Coast had long been a name for the region used by Europeans because of the large gold resources found in the area.
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