Ghana
Ghana is one of the 193 UN member states, in Western Africa. UN Tourism counted 897,000 international arrivals there in 2015, rarer than 70% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Hologram.
- International arrivals
- 897,000in 2015, UN Tourism
- Rank by visitors
- 140th of 199most visited first
- Stamp finish
- Hologramrarer than 70%
- Area
- 239,677 km² (92,540 sq mi)
- Population
- 30.4 millionNatural Earth estimate
- Regions
- 10in Globestamp’s regions layer
- Airports
- 5with scheduled flights
- World Heritage Sites
- 2on Globestamp’s list
Does Ghana count as a country?
Yes. Ghana is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.
| List | Counts Ghana? |
|---|---|
| UN member states (193) | Yes, a member |
| Globestamp’s countries and territories (250) | Yes |
| Travelers’ Century Club (330) | Yes, as Ghana |
| European Union | No |
| Schengen area | No |
The Ghana stamp
Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Ghana’s is Hologram: cracked ice, a mosaic of small mirrors, the finish for places with 500,000 to 2 million visitors a year. With 897,000 international arrivals in 2015, Ghana is rarer than 70% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.
What counts as a visit to Ghana
The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Ghana when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.
Places in Ghana you can collect
Under the country itself, Globestamp keeps layers of places on your globe, and a photo taken at one ticks it. These are the ones it knows in Ghana, from 2 World Heritage Sites.
World Heritage Sites 2
Asante Traditional Buildings (1980) · Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions (1979). On the bucket list →
National parks 2
Mole National Park · Kakum National Park. On the bucket list →
Zoos and aquariums 1
Kumasi Zoo. On the bucket list →
Botanical gardens 2
Aburi Botanical Gardens · Legon Botanical Gardens. On the bucket list →
Science museums and planetariums 1
Museum of Science and Technology. On the bucket list →
Largest cities
| City | People (urban area) |
|---|---|
| Accra | 2,121,000 |
| Kumasi | 1,646,000 |
| Tamale | 360,579 |
| Sekondi | 286,248 |
| Tema | 209,000 |
| Obuasi | 180,117 |
| Koforidua | 156,653 |
| Cape Coast | 143,015 |
Airports
Ghana has 5 airports with scheduled flights, 3 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).
10 regions to fill in
Globestamp goes deeper than countries: its regions layer splits Ghana into 10 regions (Natural Earth’s first-level divisions), and each one fills in when a photo was taken there.
All 10
Ashanti · Brong-Ahafo · Central · Eastern · Greater Accra · Northern · Upper East · Upper West · Volta · Western
Questions people ask
Is Ghana a country?
Yes. Ghana is one of the 193 UN member states, so every common list counts it: the UN’s 193, Globestamp’s 250 and the Travelers’ Century Club’s 330.
How many tourists visit Ghana a year?
UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 897,000 international arrivals in Ghana in 2015, the 140th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.
How rare is a Ghana stamp in Globestamp?
It is printed in Hologram, the finish for places with 500,000 to 2 million visitors a year, rarer than 70% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.
Does Ghana count for the Travelers’ Century Club?
Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Ghana”, one of its 330 destinations.
Places as rare as Ghana
Near Ghana
Sources
- Countries, cities and regions: Natural Earth 10m admin-0 (public domain); lists as of October 2026.
- Visitors: UN Tourism via the World Bank, ST.INT.ARVL (International tourism, number of arrivals), CC BY 4.0, data updated 2026-10-08. Each country's latest year before 2020. Countries count visitors differently; use as a rough rank.
- World Heritage Sites, parks, landmarks and the bucket-list places: Wikidata (CC0), as compiled in the app, October 2026.
- Airports: OurAirports (public domain), airports with scheduled service.
- Travelers’ Century Club: the club’s list of 330 destinations, as of January 2022.