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|| || Location || 41.6667° N, 91.5333° W || //Absolute// 5.5500° N, 0.2000° W || To the North of Iowa City is Minnesota To the West of Iowa City is South Dakota, and Nebraska. To the East of Iowa City is Wisconsin, and Illinois. To South of Iowa City is Missouri. Iowa city is located in the Southeastern part of Iowa. || Relative: To the North of Ghana is Burkina Faso. To the West of Ghana is Cote d’Ivoire. To the East of Ghana is Togo. To the South of Ghana is Atlantic Ocean. The capital city Accra is located in the Southern part of Ghana. || 203.6 meters || //Elevation (feet or meters)://: 880 meters || Iowa’s soil is a perfect place for farming. Iowa has more than 90,000 farms, except for California; no state //exports // more farming products than Iowa. They grow 1/5th of our nation’s corn. || //Goods//: Ghana exports cocoa. It is the second largest exporter in the world. They also export rice, cassava, peanuts, corn, and bananas. || 92.8% white people live there. 60% of people who live in city. || //People//: Nearly 100% is Black African. || Des Moines is KCCI TV station. People in Iowa city use taxis, cars, bikes, to get where they need to go.
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 * Iowa City, Iowa || Accra, Ghana ||
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 || //Ideas//: Ghana has a radio station called Ghana radio station. Internet users: 12% Cell phone per 100 people- 108 Paved roads: 13%

People in Ghana use taxis, walking, or cycling to get where they need to go.

|| In 1846 Iowa was established. It is our 29th state. || //Settled// (Established) in what year: Ghana was established on March 6th, 1957. || 1.English
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2.Spanish

3. German || //Top 3 Languages:// 1. English

2.Akan

3.Ewe

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Motto- Our Liberties We Prize, and Our Rights We Will Maintain—This motto was adopted to show Iowans’ independent spirit.

Iowa is known as the corn country. Corn was very important to Iowa because back during WWI the corn became expensive to feed the troops. That is how the farmers from Iowa earned their money.

Iowa is known as the Hawkeye State because of Chief Black Hawk, the leader of the Sauk Indians. They lost a battle and moved to Iowa.

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"Freedom and Justice" is the motto of Ghana.

A long time ago the British took over Ghana to mine gold and they established Accra in 1876. By 1902, the British controlled all of Ghana. During that time they started the cocoa trade in Ghana.

March 6th, 1957, Ghana became the first sub-Saharan African colony to have independence from the British.

Three years after Ghana had independence, they elected a president for the first time named Nkrumah.

|| //Winter:// //Winters are cold and snowy. The average January temperature is 14 degrees in the North and 22 degrees in the South.//
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//Summer:// Heaving thunderstorms happen in June, the month with the most rain. Summer has high humidity and it is warm. The average temperature in the summer is 83 degrees.

Fact: Tornadoes happen often there which is very dangerous they are so powerful. || //Climate//: //Winter: From November to January it is hot, dry and dusty. They have hot days and cool nights.//

//Summer: The rain falls between April and October. Ghana is hot and dry for the rest of the year. Temperatures go above 100 degrees.//

The east part of Ghana is warm and dry, the south-west part of Ghana is hot and humid and the north of Ghana is hot and dry.

Average daily temperature in Ghana is 86 degrees. The climate in Ghana is tropical. || People in Iowa live in houses, apartments, condos. The housing in Iowa is just like the housing in Wisconsin.
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|| Housing: The people in Ghana that live in the urban homes are made with cement blocks and metal roofing sheets. Some of their homes only have one structure that has the kitchen and bathroom in it. Poor people in Ghana live in small homes called zongos. Two or three generations may sleep in the same room. In those houses, the parents sleep with their kids and the grandparents sleep on the floor on a mattress.

|| 1. Bicycling is Iowa’s favorite sport. It is called the Big Ride and they ride across Iowa. 2. Visiting Adventureland which is a theme park. 3. People visit Strawberry Point which has world’s largest statue of a strawberry. It is 15 ft high.
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4. People enjoy watching the Hawkeye foot ball team play. || Leisure (3 activities): 1. Boys and men love soccer in Ghana. 2. They also enjoy volleyball, basketball, track and field and boxing. 3. Theater, music and dance festivals

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