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ghana

UK/ˈɑːnə/US/ˈɑːnə/
nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,698 of 15,258mostly written

Ghana is the West African country famous for gold and cocoa. Travel to Ghana, born in Ghana, the north of Ghana.

It was called the Gold Coast under British rule and became in 1957 the first African colony south of the Sahara to win independence, which made it a symbol across the continent. It is now among the largest cocoa producers in the world.

Theodosia Okoh · Public domain

Definitions of ghana

  1. 1nounghanaA country in West Africa.B1+

    “Accra, the capital of Ghana, lies on the Atlantic coast.”

ghana is a country.

Where it comes from

Named after the medieval Ghana Empire, though that state lay well to the north-west of the modern country.

  1. Arabic

    غِناء

  2. mt

    għana

  3. English, today

    ghana

From mt għana, from Arabic غِناء.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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