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Gold Coast

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former colonial region located in West Africa

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Map of the Gold Coast in 1873

The Gold Coast was the name for a region on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa that was rich in gold, petroleum, sweet crude oil and natural gas. This former region is now known as the country Ghana.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gold Coast” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map