The Swedish Gold Coast was a Swedish colony founded in 1650 by Hendrik Carloff on the Gulf of Guinea in present-day Ghana and Togo in West Africa. It lasted until April 1663 when the whole Swedish Gold Coast was seized by the Danes, and integrated in the Danish Gold Coast.
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