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|related = |footnotes= Ghanaian citizens or Ghanaian card nationals. }} The Ghanaian people are a nationality originating in the Ghanaian Gold Coast. Ghanaians predominantly inhabit the republic of Ghana, and they are the predominant cultural group and residents of Ghana numbering 20 million people as of 2013.〔〔 Ethnic Ghanaians make up 85.4% of the total population.〔〔 The word, "Ghana", means "Warrior King". Approximately 20 million Ghanaians are residents of the 4th Republic of Ghana;〔〔 worldwide, an additional estimated diaspora population of 4 million people are of Ghanaian descent.〔 The term ethnic Ghanaian may also be used in some contexts to refer to a locus of ethnic groups native to the Gold Coast. The Republic of Ghana is a natural resource, mineral resource and fossil fuel rich nation and is home to one of the world's largest gold bar and sweet crude oil reserves and they are the second major producers of cocoa in the world.〔, (【引用サイトリンク】title=World Cocoa - WorldCrops.com )〕 The Republic of Ghana is an economical powerhouse in West Africa, and has one of the biggest economies on the African continent and one of the world's fastest growing economies. ==Origin, ethnogenesis and history== The origin and ethnogenesis of the ancient ethnic Ghanaians is traced back to nomadic migration from Nubia along the Sahara desert then south to the Gold Coast, and the Ghanaian ethnogenesis taking place on the Ghanaian Gold Coast region from the 10th century AD to the 16th century AD.〔 Wickens, Gerald E; Lowe, Pat (2008). 〕 The Ghanaians started a lucrative trade with Ghanaian gold bars and other Ghanaian natural minerals to the Portuguese in 1471; and then the Ghanaians became the wealthiest ethnic group and nation state on the African continent from the 17th century onwards following successful further expansion of lucrative Ghanaian gold bars trading to the Dutch, Prussian and Scandinavians from the 16th century through to the 20th century.〔Chronology of world history: a calendar of principal events from 3000 BC to AD 1973, Part 1973.〕 The Ghanaians established a number of powerful kingdoms from the 10th century AD to the 17th century and the Ghanaians became the dominant military power in the west of Africa.〔 In 1902, the powerful Ghanaian kingdoms had all become a colony of Britain and their powerful kingdoms was renamed Gold Coast following a series of military warfare battles between the Ghanaians and the British.〔 The Ghanaians gained their independence from Britain in 1957, and renamed their sovereign state; "Ghana (Warrior King)" due to the fact that pre-historic Republic of Ghana was ruled by warriors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Ghana )〕 The Republic of Ghana was the first African country to gain independence from European colonization.〔, , 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ghanaian people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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