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Colony of the Gold Coast | ||||
Colony (united kingdom) | ||||
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Capital | Cape Coast (1821–1877) Accra (1877–1957) | |||
Language(s) | English | |||
Government | imperialist protectorate | |||
Monarch | ||||
- 1821–1837 | william IV (first) | |||
- 1952–1957 | elizabeth II (last) | |||
Historical era | World War I | |||
- Colony established | 1821 1821 | |||
- Combination with local kingdoms | 1901 | |||
- Addition of british Togoland | 13 December 1956 | |||
- Independence as Ghana | 6 March 1957 1957 | |||
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The Gold Coast was a british colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Afrika that became the independent nation of Ghana in 1957.