Tumu
Tumu is a bustling town in the Ghanaian Northern Plains on the border with Burkina Faso. The town serves as a vital cross-border transit hub.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of 301 metres (988 feet)
- Description: municipal capital in Upper West Region, Ghana
- Also known as“tsumu”“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.
Tumu
- Category: human settlement
- Location
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Latitude
10.87645° or 10° 52′ 35″ north
Longitude
-1.97911° or 1° 58′ 45″ west
Open location code
7C2WV2GC+H9
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Wikidata ID
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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