The Republic of Ghana or Ghana for short is a west African country bordering the Gulf of Guinea between the Republic of Ivory Coast and the People's Republic of Togo. Ghana borders the Gulf of Guinea to the south, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east and Ivory Coast to the West. Ghana has a total land area of about 238,53sq.km (about 11,000sq.km covered by water) with about 539km of coastline. Ghana has a total population of about 27 million people with the population growth rate around 1.8%. A major part of the Ghanaian population lives in major cities and towns such as Accra the capital of Ghana (Accra contains about 2.3 million people) and Kumasi the capital of the Ashanti region(Kumasi contains about 1.8 million people). Other regional capitals such as Sunyani the capital of the Brong Ahafo region and Tamale the capital of the Northern Region of Ghana are also homes to several hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians if not millions.