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TransportationAirports World Ranking: 157
10 (2012)
Airports - with paved runways
Total 7
Over 3,047 m 1 2,438 to 3,047 m 1 1,524 to 2,437 m 3 914 to 1,523 m 2 (2012) Airports - with unpaved runways
Total 3
914 to 1,523 m 3 (2012) Pipelines
Gas 1 km; oil 5 km; refined products 312 km (2010) Railways World Ranking: 91
Total 947 km
Narrow gauge 947 km 1.067-m gauge (2008) Roadways World Ranking: 72
Total 62,221 km
Paved 9,955 km Unpaved 52,266 km (2006) Waterways World Ranking: 57
1,293 km (168 km for launches and lighters on Volta, Ankobra, and Tano rivers; 1,125 km of arterial and feeder waterways on Lake Volta) (2011) Merchant marine World Ranking: 133
Total 4
By type Petroleum tanker 1, refrigerated cargo 3 Foreign-owned 2 (Brazil 1, South Korea 1) (2010) Ports and terminals
Takoradi, Tema
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Formed from the merger of the British colony of the Gold Coast and the Togoland trust territory, Ghana in 1957 became the first sub-Saharan country in colonial Africa to gain its independence. Ghana endured a long series of coups before Lt. Jerry RAWLINGS took power in 1981 and banned political parties. After approving a new constitution and restoring multiparty politics in 1992, RAWLINGS won presidential elections in 1992 and 1996 but was constitutionally prevented from running for a third term in 2000. John KUFUOR succeeded him and was reelected in 2004. John Atta MILLS took over as head of state in early 2009.