Country Profile: Togo

Country Resources

Topographic
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Togo Regional Series 1:200,000 Scale Topographic MapsDirection de la Cartographie Nationale et du Cadastre1:200,0001984 – 19842
Togo 1:50,000 Scale Topographic MapsInstitut Geographique National1:50,0001953 – 198793
Togo 1:200,000 Scale Topographic Maps (IGN)Institut Geographique National1:200,0001955 – 19897

Geoscientific
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Benin 1:1,000,000 Scale Geological MapBureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres1:1,000,0001960 – 19601
Burkina Faso 1:1,000,000 Scale Geological Map (2003 Edition)Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres1:1,000,0002003 – 20031
Mali 1:1,500,000 Scale Geological MapsBureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres1:1,500,0001980 – 19802
Burkina Faso 1:1,000,000 Scale Mineral Resources MapBureau des Mines et de la Geologie du Burkina Faso (former BUVOGMI)1:1,000,0002012 – 20121
Burkina Faso 1:1,000,000 Scale Mining Concessions MapBureau des Mines et de la Geologie du Burkina Faso (former BUVOGMI)1:1,000,0002012 – 20121
Burkina Faso 1:1,000,000 Scale Geological MapDirection de la Géologie et des Mines, Burkina Faso1:1,000,0001976 – 19761
Cote d’Ivoire 1:2,000,000 Scale Geological MapDirection des Mines de l’A.O.F1:2,000,0001953 – 19531
Niger 1:1,000,000 Scale Geological MapsDirection Generale des Mines et de la Geologie1:1,000,0001961 – 19613
Niger 1:2,000,000 Scale Geological MapsDirection Generale des Mines et de la Geologie1:2,000,0001965 – 19651
Togo 1:200,000 Scale Geological MapsDirection Generale des Mines, de la Geologie et du Bureau National de Recherches Minieres1:200,0001986 – 19865
Togo 1:500,000 Scale Geological MapDirection Generale des Mines, de la Geologie et du Bureau National de Recherches Minieres1:500,0001986 – 19861
Ghana 1:1,000,000 Scale Geological MapGhana Geological Survey1:1,000,0002009 – 20091
Ghana 1:1,000,000 Scale Geology and Mineral Resources MapMinerals Commission1:1,000,0002002 – 20021
Benin 1:200,000 Scale Geological MapsOffice Béninois des Mines1:200,0001972 – 198911

Thematic
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
The World 1:30,000,000 Scale Topographic Map Series 1145 (NGA)DMA1:30,000,0002

Global Census Archive: GIS Census Data

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Global Resources

Topographic
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Soviet Military City PlansVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)Varies1944 – 20033017
Soviet Military 1:100,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:100,0001947 – 199924897
Soviet Military 1:200,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:200,0001949 – 200917799
Soviet Military 1:500,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:500,0001953 – 19983093

Nautical
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
NGA Nautical Charts POD Certified (All Scales)National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyVaries1943 – 20134517

Aeronautical
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Joint Operations Graphic (JOG) 1:250,000 – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:250,0001958 – 20074204
Tactical Pilotage Chart (TPC) 1:500,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:500,0001967 – 2006598
Operational Navigation Chart (ONC) 1:1,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:1,000,0001969 – 2001243
Jet Navigation Chart (JNC) 1:2,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:2,000,0001971 – 1999117
Global Navigation and Planning Chart (GNC) 1:5,000,000 Scale – AeronauticalDefence Mapping Agency1:5,000,0001981 – 199927

Geoscientific
SeriesPublisherScaleYearsSheets
Soviet Military 1:1,000,000 Scale Topographic MapsVoenno-topograficheskoe upravlenie General’nogo shtaba (Soviet Union)1:1,000,0001948 – 19941089

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Historical Country Mapping Information

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Topographic

Togo, which became an independent republic in 1960, was mapped by the French Institut Géographique National (IGN) and its predecessors in the 1950s and 1960s in its program of Cartes de l’Afrique de l’Ouest.  The country was covered by 90 four-color, 1:50,000 scale sheets, showing relief by 20 m interval contours, and also by 12 four or five-color 1:200,000 scale sheets with 40 m contours.  Both series were on a UTM projection, Clarke 1880 ellipsoid, and were compiled from aerial photographic coverage.  The responsible mapping authority is now the Direction de La Cartographie Nationale et du Cadastre (DCNC), Lomé, but it is heavily dependent on overseas aid.  Consequently there has been no revision of the 1:50,000 scale mapping.  However a new triangulation of the country has taken place with aid from Germany, and in the 1980s a new 1:200,000 series in five extended sheets was completed, financed by France and printed at the IGN.  This map is in four or five colors with relief shading and 40 m contours.  Projection is UTM, Clarke 1880 ellipsoid.

Soviet military topographic mapping of Togo exists at the following scales: 1:1,000,000 (3 sheets, complete coverage, published in 1986); 1:500,000 (5 sheets, complete coverage, published 1983-1985); 1:200,000 (18 sheets, complete coverage, published 1981-1985) and a city (1:10,000) topographic map of Lome published in 1978. These products are available in print, digital raster and digital vector GIS formats from East View Geospatial.

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Geological/Scientific

The Direction Générale des Mines, de la Géologie et du Bureau National de Recherches Minières (DGMG), Lomé, also undertook new mapping in the 1980s.  A five-sheet 1:200,000 scale geological map was issued in 1984-86 with accompanying texts, together with a single 1:500,000 scale sheet of the whole country.

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Soil

Soil mapping of Togo was undertaken by the Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération (ORSTOM).  A map of the whole country at 1:1,000,000 scale was published in 1962, and a three-sheet map at 1:200,000 scale in 1979.  Further work in the 1980s produced a two-sheet 1:50,000 soil map of Kara in northeast Togo, issued with a 282-page monograph, and 1:100,000 scale maps of soil and land capability for the Région de Bassar.  In 1993, a 1:500,000 morphopedologic map was issued covering the extreme north of the country.  In 1996, ORSTOM published a map of the state of land degradation in the country assessed on a scale of six classes.

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Atlas

A useful atlas in the Jeune Afrique series was published in 1981 by Editions du Jaguar. Its preparation was directed by the Département de Géographie, Université du Bénin at Lomé.

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Cadaster

A 1:20,000 map of the capital, Lomé, was published in 1977, and a new edition appeared in 1980.

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Census/Demography/Statistics

The Direction de la Statistique et de l’Informatique (CENETI) carries out a decennial census of population and has produced 1:50,000 to 1:100,000 scale maps of the 21 prefectures, and detailed plans of cities printed as dye-lines.

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