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title: "Togo — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Togo: capital Lomé, area 56,785 km², population 8,591,626 (2025), currency West African CFA franc. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/togo/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Togo

**Togo: Capital Lomé**

56,785 km² · 8,591,626 people (2025) · West African CFA franc

A narrow country about 550 km long with only 56 km of coast — one of the shortest coastlines in Africa. The Koutammakou landscape in the north is built of takienta, two-storey mud tower-houses that are still lived in.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Lomé
- **Area:** 56,785 km² — 21,925 sq mi
- **Population:** 8,591,626 (2025)
- **Density:** 151.3 people per km²
- **Currency:** West African CFA franc (XOF, Fr)
- **Official language:** French
- **Time zone:** UTC+00:00
- **Calling code:** +228
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** TG · TGO
- **Continent:** Africa

## How it compares

- **By area:** 124 of 200
- **By population:** 102 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lithuania | 65,300 | 2,888,774 |
| Latvia | 64,589 | 1,847,785 |
| Togo ← | 56,785 | 8,591,626 |
| Croatia | 56,594 | 3,876,200 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 51,197 | 3,140,095 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Togo?

Lomé

### What currency does Togo use?

The West African CFA franc (XOF).

### How big is Togo?

56,785 km², or 21,925 square miles — 124 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Togo drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Lithuania](https://atoneplace.net/country/lithuania/)
- [Latvia](https://atoneplace.net/country/latvia/)
- [Croatia](https://atoneplace.net/country/croatia/)
- [Bosnia and Herzegovina](https://atoneplace.net/country/bosnia-and-herzegovina/)
- [Nigeria](https://atoneplace.net/country/nigeria/)
- [Ethiopia](https://atoneplace.net/country/ethiopia/)
- [Egypt](https://atoneplace.net/country/egypt/)
- [Democratic Republic of the Congo](https://atoneplace.net/country/democratic-republic-of-the-congo/)
- [Tanzania](https://atoneplace.net/country/tanzania/)
- [South Africa](https://atoneplace.net/country/south-africa/)
- [Kenya](https://atoneplace.net/country/kenya/)
- [Sudan](https://atoneplace.net/country/sudan/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]