Tumu
Tumu is a small town and is the capital of Sissala East Municipal Assembly, a municipal in the Upper West Region of northern Ghana, adjacent to the border with Burkina Faso.- Type: Town
- Description: municipal capital in Upper West Region, Ghana
- Also known as: “tsumu” and “Tumu, Ghana”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sissala East Municipal District and Tumu College of Education.
Sissala East Municipal District
Government office
Sissala East Municipal District is one of the eleven districts in Upper West Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Sissala District in 1988; until the western part of the district was later split off to create Sissala West District…
Tumu College of Education
College
Tumu College of Education is a teacher education college in Tumu. The college is located in Northern Zone zone. It is one of the 46 public colleges of education in Ghana.
Tumu
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sissala East Municipal District, Upper West Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.87537° or 10° 52′ 31″ northLongitude
-1.98593° or 1° 59′ 9″ westElevation
301 metres (988 feet)Open location code
7C2WV2G7+4JOpenStreetMap ID
node 329971439OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Twi—“Tumu” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Tumu”
- Ga: “Tumu”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tumu, Ghana”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tumu”
- Hausa: “Tumu”
- Indonesian: “Tumu, Ghana”
- Indonesian: “Tumu”
- Irish: “Tumu”
- Italian: “Tumu”
- Japanese: “ツム”
- Kusaal: “Tumu”
- Polish: “Tumu”
- Southern Dagaare: “Tumu”
- Swedish: “Tumu, Ghana”
- Swedish: “Tumu”
- Turkish: “Tumu”
- Twi: “Tumu”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Playland and Tumu Post Office.
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