Ghana–Ivory Coast border

The Ghana–Ivory Coast border is 720 km (447 m) in length and runs from the tripoint with Burkina Faso in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south.

The border then follows a broad arc, composed predominately of overland lines as well as some streams, before reaching the Tano River.

[3] The border then follows the Tano as it flows to the south-west into Aby Lagoon; it then runs along the southern shore of the adjoining Lake Tendo, before veering southwards overland down to the Atlantic coast.

[6] The British gradually extended their rule into the interior, against often determined resistance by native kingdoms such as the Asante; the northern region of what is now Ghana was annexed to the Gold Coast colony in 1901.

[7] This later became part of the federal colony of French West Africa (Afrique occidentale française, abbreviated AOF).