Mount Agou
Mount Agou, mountain in southwestern Togo, near the border with Ghana. An extreme western outlier of the Atakora Mountains of adjacent Benin, it rises to 3,235 feet (986 metres) and is the highest point in Togo. It was initially named for Oskar Baumann (1864–99), an Austrian-African explorer, when Togo (then called Togoland) was a German colony (1880s to World War I).
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Article Title:
Mount Agou
Website Name:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published:
18 February 2009
Access Date:
February 22, 2025