[2] Gold Coast region territorial entities were: Ghana is the legal name for the region loosely referred to as the Gold Coast comprising the following four separate parts, which immediately before independence had distinct constitutional positions:[2] The United Kingdom government was responsible for shepherding through the Ghana Independence Act 1957 with Charles Arden-Clarke.

Lord Listowel explained that the name was chosen "in accordance with the wishes of the Gold Coastian population".

The Danes arrived in 1663 and later seized the Swedish territory and incorporated it into the Danish Gold Coast.

[2] In 1774 a London commercial expert references a witness that "the king of Guinea, the greatest city in all the countries of Negroland, has a mass of gold of thirty pounds weight as it was naturally produced in the mines which is completely pure, tough and malleable without having been smelted".

[2] In 1957, the territory comprising the Gold Coast Crown Colony, the Ashanti Crown Colony, the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast Protectorate and British Togoland were united as an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations under the name Ghana.