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Capital: Lomé
Area: 56,800 sq km / 21,930 sq ml
Language: French, Ewe, Kabre, Gurma
Currency: Franc CFA
Population: 5,429,299
Life expectancy: 53 (men), 57 (women)
Literacy rate: 56%
Religions: Animist, Catholic, Muslim, Protestant
Physical features: Savanna plains divided by a range of hills running north east and south west
Ethnic distribution: Hamitic origin in the north and black Africans in the south
Exports: Phosphates, cocoa, coffee, coconuts, cotton, palm kernels
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