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Continent: Western and Northern Africa

Capital: Lomé

Area: 54,385 km²

Population: 7,965,055

Former Name: French Togoland

Neighbouring Countries: ← Ghana , ↑ Burkina Faso , → Benin

Religions: Christian 29%, Muslim 20%, indigenous beliefs 51%

Languages: French (official, the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)

Ethnic Groups: African (37 tribes; largest and most important are Ewe, Mina, and Kabre) 99%, European and Syrian-Lebanese less than 1%

Motto: Travail, Liberté, Patrie (French) (Work, liberty, homeland)

Area: 56,785 km²

Catholic Population: 2,333,000 Catholics (27.9% of 8,357,000 total)

Pastoral Centres: 338 parishes, 1,389 mission stations (25 with resident priest, 1,364 without resident priest), 19 other centres

Clergy: 11 bishops (7 diocesan, 4 titular), 1,193 priests (883 diocesan, 310 religious)

Non-Clergy: 1,457 religious (217 brothers, 1,240 sisters), 29 members of secular institutes (sisters), 618 major seminarians, 38 missionaries, 7,532 catechists