Volta River
The Volta River is the main river system in the West African country of Ghana. It flows south into Ghana from the Bobo-Dioulasso highlands of Burkina Faso.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river system in West Africa
- Also known as: “Amo River”, “River Volta”, and “Volta”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ada Foah and Anyanui.
Ada Foah
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Ada Foah is a town on the southeast coast of Ghana, where the Volta River meets the Atlantic Ocean. The town is located along the Volta River, off of the Accra-Aflao motorway.
Anyanui
Town
Photo: Gina Gleeson, CC BY 2.0.
Anyanui is a village in Keta Municipal District, Ghana. Anyanui is connected to Ada Foah by a ferry which runs every Wednesday, calling at a number of other villages on the way. Anyanui is situated 6 km east of Volta River.
Big Ada
Town
Big Ada is a town in the Ada East District, a district in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The settlement lies along the road from Ada Kasseh to the district capital Ada Foah, just off the Accra-Aflao motorway. Big Ada is situated 8 km northwest of Volta River.
Volta River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Volta Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Volta River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Voltarivier”
- Arabic: “نهر الفولتا”
- Arabic: “نهر فولتا”
- Armenian: “Վոլտա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Volta”
- Azerbaijani: “Volta çayı”
- Basque: “Volta ibaia”
- Basque: “Volta”
- Belarusian: “Вольта”
- Belarusian: “Рака Вольта”
- Bengali: “ভোল্টা নদী”
- Breton: “Volta”
- Bulgarian: “Волта”
- Catalan: “Riu Volta”
- Cebuano: “Volta”
- Chinese: “伏塔河”
- Chinese: “沃尔特河”
- Chinese: “沃爾特河”
- Chuvash: “Вольта”
- Croatian: “Rijeka Volta”
- Croatian: “Volta”
- Czech: “Volta”
- Dagbani: “Volta mɔɣili”
- Danish: “Volta”
- Dutch: “Volta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر فولتا”
- Esperanto: “Voltao”
- Finnish: “Volta-joki”
- Finnish: “Volta”
- French: “Volta”
- Galician: “Río Volta”
- Georgian: “ვოლტა”
- German: “Nakanbe”
- German: “Volta”
- Greek: “Βόλτα”
- Hausa: “Kogin Volta”
- Hebrew: “וולטה”
- Hindi: “वोल्टा नदी”
- Hungarian: “Volta”
- Icelandic: “Volta”
- Icelandic: “Voltafljót”
- Ido: “Fluvio Volta”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Volta”
- Irish: “An Volta”
- Italian: “Fiume Volta”
- Italian: “Volta”
- Japanese: “ヴォルタ川”
- Japanese: “ボルタ川”
- Kazakh: “Вольта”
- Kirghiz: “Bольта дарыясы”
- Kirghiz: “Вольта”
- Korean: “볼타강”
- Latin: “Volta”
- Latvian: “Volta (upe)”
- Latvian: “Volta”
- Lithuanian: “Volta”
- Macedonian: “Волта”
- Malagasy: “Volta (ony)”
- Malagasy: “Volta”
- Malayalam: “വോൾട്ട നദി”
- Mingrelian: “ვოლტა (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ვოლტა”
- Northern Frisian: “Volta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Volta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Voltaelva”
- Norwegian: “Volta”
- Panjabi: “ਵੋਲਟਾ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Persian: “رود ولتا”
- Polish: “Wolta”
- Portuguese: “Rio Volta”
- Romanian: “Fluviul Volta”
- Romanian: “Rio Volta”
- Romanian: “Volta”
- Russian: “Вольта”
- Serbian: “Volta”
- Serbian: “Волта”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Volta”
- Silesian: “Wolta”
- Slovenian: “Nakanbe”
- Slovenian: “Volta”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولتا چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Volta”
- Spanish: “Río Volta”
- Spanish: “Volta”
- Swahili: “Mto Volta”
- Swahili: “Volta”
- Swedish: “Volta”
- Tamil: “வோல்ட்டா ஆறு”
- Tamil: “வோல்ற்றா ஆறு”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำวอลตา”
- Turkish: “Volta Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Вольта”
- Urdu: “دریائے وولٹا”
- Uzbek: “Volta”
- Venetian: “Fiume Volta”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Volta”
- Vietnamese: “Volta”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Volta”
- Welsh: “Afon Volta”
- Wu Chinese: “沃尔特河”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Aholupu and Adewuke.
Notable Places Nearby
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