Upper West Region
The Upper West Region is a region of Ghana located in the northwestern corner of the country. It is bordered by the Upper East Region to the east, the Northern Region to the south, and the Centre-Ouest and Sud-Ouest regions of Burkina Faso to the west and north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: region of Ghana with 868,000 residents
- Description: administrative region in Ghana
- Also known as: “Upper Region”
Upper West Region
- Location: Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Yoruba—“Upper West Region” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Atifi atɔeɛ mantam”
- Arabic: “الإقليم الغربي الأعلى”
- Armenian: “Վերին Արևմտյան շրջան”
- Belarusian: “Верхні заходні рэгіён”
- Bengali: “উপের ওয়েস্ট অঞ্চল”
- Breton: “Upper West”
- Bulgarian: “Горнозападен регион”
- Catalan: “Regió Superior Occidental”
- Cebuano: “Upper West Region”
- Chinese: “上西部大區”
- Chinese: “西北地区”
- Chinese: “西北地區”
- Dagbani: “Upper West Region”
- Danish: “Upper West”
- Dutch: “Upper West Region”
- Dutch: “Upper West”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Supro”
- Farefare: “Upper West Region”
- Finnish: “Upper West Ghana”
- French: “Haut Ghana occidental”
- French: “Région du Haut Ghana occidental”
- Galician: “Rexión Alta Occidental”
- Georgian: “ზემო დასავლეთის რეგიონი”
- German: “GH-UW”
- German: “Upper West Region”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Upper West Region”
- Greek: “Άπερ Γουέστ”
- Gujarati: “અપર પશ્ચિમ પ્રદેશ”
- Hausa: “Yankin Upper West”
- Hindi: “ऊपरी पश्चिम क्षेत्र”
- Igbo: “Upper West Region”
- Indonesian: “Region Upper West”
- Italian: “regione Occidentale Superiore”
- Italian: “Regione Occidentale Superiore”
- Italian: “Upper West Region”
- Japanese: “アッパー・ウェスト州”
- Japanese: “アッパー・ウエスト州”
- Kannada: “ಅಪ್ಪರ್ ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ರೀಜನ್”
- Korean: “북서부 주”
- Korean: “어퍼웨스트주”
- Kusaal: “Upper West Region”
- Kusaal: “Wa”
- Latvian: “Rietumaugšējais reģions”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinis Vakarų regionas”
- Malay: “Upper West Region”
- Marathi: “अप्पर वेस्ट प्रदेश”
- Mingrelian: “ჟიმოლენი ბჟადალი რეგიონი”
- Mossi: “Upper West Region”
- Nigerian Pidgin: “Upper West Region”
- Northern Frisian: “Upper West”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Upper West Region”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Upper West”
- Norwegian: “Upper West”
- Persian: “منطقه غرب علیا”
- Polish: “Górny Region Zachodni”
- Polish: “Region Północno-Zachodni”
- Polish: “Region Upper West”
- Portuguese: “Alto Ocidental”
- Portuguese: “Região Upper West”
- Portuguese: “Upper west”
- Portuguese: “Upper West”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Superioară de Vest, Ghana”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Superioară de Vest”
- Russian: “Верхняя Западная область”
- Sinhala: “ඉහල බටහිර කලාපය”
- Slovenian: “GH-UW”
- Slovenian: “Gornja zahodna regija”
- Slovenian: “Upper West Region”
- South Azerbaijani: “یوخاری باتی اوستانی”
- Southern Dagaare: “Ɔpa Wɛse Irigyin”
- Southern Dagaare: “Upper West Region”
- Southern Dagaare: “Wa Naa yiri”
- Southern Dagaare: “Wa Senior High Technical School”
- Southern Dagaare: “Wa west Irigyin”
- Southern Dagaare: “Wa”
- Spanish: “Alta Ghana Occidental”
- Spanish: “Alta Occidental”
- Spanish: “Región Alta Occidental”
- Spanish: “Región Superior Oeste”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Magharibi ya Juu”
- Swedish: “Övre västra regionen”
- Tamil: “அப்பர் மேற்கு பகுதி”
- Tatar: “Югары Көнбатыш төбәге”
- Telugu: “అప్పర్ వెస్ట్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “อัพเปอร์ เวสต์”
- Turkish: “Yukarı Batı Bölgesi”
- Twi: “Upper West Region”
- Ukrainian: “Верхній Західний регіон”
- Urdu: “اپر ویسٹ ریجن”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Thượng Tây”
- Wali (Ghana): “UW/R”
- Wali (Ghana): “Wa-Naa Paalʋʋ”
- Wu Chinese: “西北地区 (加纳)”
- Wu Chinese: “西北地区（加纳）”
- Yoruba: “Upper West Region”
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