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| Land Boudaries Total :
| 1,647 km .
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| Geographic Coordinates :
| tropical; hot, humid in south; semiarid in north .
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| Area Total :
| 56,785 sq km .
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| Area Land :
| 54,385 sq km .
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| Area Water :
| 2,400 sq km .
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| Area Comparative :
| slightly smaller than West Virginia .
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| Coast Line :
| 56 km .
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| Railways Total :
| 568 km .
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| Highways Total :
| 7,520 km .
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| Waterways :
| 50 km (seasonally on Mono River depending on rainfall) (2003) .
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| Ports and Harbors :
| Kpeme, Lome .
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Map Bassar Bassari 1960,
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Deforestation is a major ramification of the precolonial iron trade industry and its expansion in West Africa. The area of focus in this environment and trade case study is the central area of present day Togo, in the region of Bassar. It was possibly the largest complex for iron and steel production in West Central Africa. Smelting iron ore required the production of vast quantities of charcoal . Since charcoal is produced from wood, kilometers upon kilometers of forests were cleared to satisfy the iron demands of the industry from the 1300s through to the 1800s.
In the 14th century smelting was widespread according to the investigations of archeologists. By the late 16th or early 17th century the Bassar region is documented as becoming a large scale producer for supra-regional export to Europe.
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