How to identify Ghana in GeoGuessr?

- The language is English. - Vehicles drive on the right side, and taxis have yellow license plates. - The domain is .gh. - Black duct tape is wrapped around the front right corner{{% by %}}.

Ghana

clues 8Updated 2023-07-01

Quiz ▾Importance

LanguageEnglish

Driving sideDrives on the right

Domain.gh

Easily confused with:RéunionQuizzes for this area:City quiz

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Whole area4

Clues that work anywhere in this area

Language & Script★★★

The language is English.

Examples1 2

Google Car★★★

The Google Car has black tape wrapped around its front right. Look down and you should spot it.

Watch outIf the tape is on the rear right instead, that's Réunion.

Watch outThis clue is fading out as newer imagery replaces it. It used to be THE "Ghana tape." For what it's worth, the person behind that car seems to have moved up in the world.

Examples1 2See alsoRéunion

Open in Street View2

From a tweet by @fortune_sibanda (posted with their permission)

Vehicle★★★

Taxis have a distinctive paint pattern and yellow license plates.

Examples1 2 3 4 5

Commercial Facilities★★★

You'll spot small box-shaped shops in red, yellow, and green — likely lottery kiosks.

Examples1 2SourcesNational Lottery Authority of Ghana

a walk to Makola Market (the red, yellow, and green box is a lottery kiosk)

Narrowing down the region4

Once you know the area: which part of it

Vegetation

Where Vegetation clues apply3

Click an item to jump to its clueTap to show the range; tap again or → to jump to the clue

palm
savanna
coastal savanna

Plants & farming★★★

The further south you go, the more palm trees there are, and the denser the tree cover.

Examples1 2SourcesAppiah, Divine Odame, Balikisu Osman, and James Boafo. "Land use and misuse; Human appropriation of land ecosystems services in Ghana." International Journal of Ecosystem 4.1 (2014): 24-33.

Where

Plants & farming★★★

Tall grassland, uniformly straw-coloured with bare red soil showing, means the northern savanna. Oil palm and banana are barely seen here. Soil colour varies quite a bit from place to place.

Examples1 2 3SourcesGeography of Ghana - Wikipedia (vegetation zones)

Where