50 free Togo trivia questions with answers — geography quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Togo is a sliver of West Africa less than 115 km wide, squeezed between Ghana and Benin, and this quiz covers it from the Slave Coast to the Commonwealth: the Ewe arrivals, the treaty forced on King Mlapa III in 1884, German Togoland and its cocoa and cotton, the Anglo-French invasion of 1914, the vote that sent the British half into Ghana, independence in 1960, the assassination of Sylvanus Olympio and the 38-year rule of Gnassingbé Eyadéma, followed by his son. Easy questions ask for the capital, the neighbours, the language and the coast; the harder ones want the meaning of the name 'Togo', the highest mountain, the longest river, the world's largest voodoo market, the mud tower-houses of Koutammakou, the wax-print traders called Nana Benz and the country's one Olympic medal. There is also Emmanuel Adebayor, the 2006 World Cup, the bus attack of 2010, the fourth-largest phosphate reserves on Earth and the 2024 constitution that made an 86-year-old the world's oldest president. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the country, its capital and its people, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01What is the capital of Togo, sitting on the Gulf of Guinea right against the border with Ghana?
Lomé
The city limits run to the Ghanaian town of Aflao a few hundred metres from the centre. It is the country's chief port and has an oil refinery.
Q 02Togo is bordered by Ghana to the west and which country to the east?
Benin
Burkina Faso lies to the north. At its narrowest the country is less than 115 km across between its two coastal neighbours.
Q 03What is the official language of Togo?
French
Ewe and Kabiye are the two designated 'national languages'. Togo joined the Commonwealth in 2022 partly to help its citizens learn English.
Q 04Which European power established the protectorate of Togoland in 1884?
Germany
A paper was forcibly signed with King Mlapa III at Togoville. Germany built the railway and the port of Lomé to ship out cocoa, coffee and cotton.
Q 05In which year did Togo gain independence from France?
1960
The republic was proclaimed on 27 April. Sylvanus Olympio became the first president and was assassinated in a coup in January 1963.
Q 06Which soldier seized power in 1967 and ruled Togo for 38 years?
Gnassingbé Eyadéma
As a sergeant he had led the 1963 coup that killed Olympio. When he died in 2005 the army installed his son Faure, who has ruled ever since.
Q 07The name 'Togo' comes from Ewe words meaning what?
Behind the sea
From 'to' (water) and 'go' (shore). It first referred only to the lakeside town of Togo, now Togoville, before the Germans applied it to the whole colony.
Q 08Between the 16th and 18th centuries Togo's shoreline and its neighbours earned what grim nickname?
The Slave Coast
Europeans traded for captives here for two hundred years. The Gold Coast was Ghana and the Ivory Coast keeps the name today.
Q 09In 1957 British Togoland voted to join which soon-to-be-independent colony instead of the eastern half?
The Gold Coast
It became Ghana months later. Togoland had been split between Britain and France after the German surrender in 1914, then run as League of Nations mandates and UN trust territories.
Q 10In which year did Togo join the Commonwealth of Nations, despite never having been a British colony?
2022
It joined alongside Gabon at the Kigali summit. Togo is also a member of the Francophonie and ECOWAS.
Q 11Under Togo's 2024 constitution and parliamentary system, Faure Gnassingbé took which new office?
President of the Council of Ministers
The post has a six-year term renewable indefinitely, while the presidency became largely ceremonial. Critics called it a constitutional coup.
Q 12Who was elected Togo's ceremonial president in May 2025 at nearly 86, the oldest president ever?
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové
He was chosen unanimously in the country's first indirect presidential election under the new constitution.
Q 13Togo's flag has green and yellow stripes with a red square in the corner bearing what?
A white star
Q 21The Akodessawa market in Lomé is billed as the world's largest market for what?
Voodoo fetishes
Stalls sell dried animal heads, skins and talismans for traditional healers. Roughly a third of Togolese follow indigenous beliefs.
Q 22The wealthy Togolese women who dominated the 1970s wax-print trade were nicknamed after which car?
Mercedes-Benz
The 'Nana Benz' were often the only people in Lomé who could afford one. Their trade continues at the Grand Marché.
Q 23Koutammakou, a UNESCO World Heritage landscape in northern Togo, is famous for what kind of dwellings?
Mud tower-houses
The Batammariba's takyenta houses, often two storeys with flat roofs, are a national symbol. The site was expanded into Benin in 2023.
Artist Paul Ahyi designed it in 1960 using the pan-African colours. Ghana's flag has a black star.
Q 14How long is Togo's coastline on the Gulf of Guinea?
56 km
Barely 35 miles of lagoons and sandy beach, yet the port of Lomé is one of West Africa's busiest transit hubs.
Q 15What is Togo's highest mountain?
Mont Agou
It rises only 986 metres in the coffee and cocoa hills near Kpalimé.
Q 16Togo's longest river, running 400 km north to south along the Benin border, is called what?
The Mono
The Oti is a tributary of the Volta in the north. The Nangbeto Dam on the Mono supplies power to both Togo and Benin.
Q 17How many regions is Togo divided into?
Five
From north to south: Savanes, Kara, Centrale, Plateaux and Maritime, subdivided into 39 prefectures.
Q 18Togo has the world's fourth-largest deposits of which mineral?
Phosphate
Around 2.1 million tons a year are dug near the coast for fertiliser. Mining made up about a third of GDP in 2012.
Q 19Which currency, shared with seven other countries in the region, does Togo use?
The CFA franc
It was devalued by 50% in January 1994, a shock that reset the economy. The cedi and naira belong to Ghana and Nigeria.
Q 20Which is Togo's largest ethnic group, making up about a third of the population in the south?
Ewe
The Kabye of the north are about 22% and dominated the army under Eyadéma, himself a Kabye.
Q 24Emmanuel Adebayor was African Footballer of the Year in 2008 while playing for which club?
Arsenal
He later played for all three of the others, and in 2020 became the highest-paid player in Paraguay at Olimpia.
Q 25In which year did Togo make its only FIFA World Cup appearance?
2006
Coach Otto Pfister resigned over bonuses three days before the first match, was talked back by the players, and Togo lost all three games in Germany.
Q 26Before the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, Togo's team bus came under fatal attack in which host country?
Angola
Separatists in Cabinda killed the assistant coach and press officer. Togo withdrew and CAF banned them from the next two tournaments.
Q 27Togo's first and only Olympic medal was a bronze won by Benjamin Boukpeti at Beijing 2008 in which sport?
Canoe slalom
The French-born paddler competed in the K1 event and famously snapped his paddle in celebration.
Q 28According to the 2022 census, roughly what share of Togolese identify as Christian?
About half
49.2%, against 18.6% Muslim and 17% traditionalist. Many Christians and Muslims also keep indigenous practices.
Q 29Togo's early Protestants were nicknamed 'Brema', a corruption of which German missionary city?
Bremen
The Bremen Missionary Society sent about a hundred missionaries to the coast. Their expulsion after World War I birthed the independent Ewe Evangelical Church.
Q 30Among the Kabye people of northern Togo, young men undergo which wrestling initiation rite?
Evala
The Guin of the south-east instead mark the new year with the Epé-Ekpé 'taking of the stone' ceremony at Glidji.