Geography of Togo

Togo is a small Sub-Saharan state, comprising a long strip of land in West Africa.

To the south Togo has 56 km (35 mi) of coastline along the Bight of Benin of the Gulf of Guinea in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The country consists primarily of two savanna plains regions separated by a southwest–northeast range of hills (the Chaîne du Togo).

This southern area of Togo has been categorised by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic ecoregion.

There is a dry season between November and March dominated by the desert winds of the Harmattan, which bring less humid and less unpleasant weather.

In this region rainfall is much lower than in the rest of southern West Africa due to divergent coast-parallel winds between mid-July and mid-September creating a short, foggy secondary dry season.

[2] Current issues: Togo is party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution (MARPOL 73/78), Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling This is a list of the extreme points of Togo, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.