Tongo
Tongo is a small town near the Upper East region capital of Bolgatanga, and Tongo is the capital of Talensi-Nabdam District in the Upper East Region of Northern part of Ghana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: is a small town or district capital of Talensi District in Upper East Region
- Also known as: “Tengzuk”, “Tong”, “Tonga”, “Tongo Zoo”, and “Tongo, Ghana”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tongo Hills and Zuarungu.
Tongo Hills
Photo: Uridl01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tongo Hills are a group of hills near Tongo in the Ghanaian Northern Plains. The highest elevation is 355 m.
Zuarungu
Village
Photo: Uridl01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zuarungu is a town in the Upper East Region of Ghana east of Bolgatanga. The town is the capital of the Bolgatanga East District. The people living in Zuarungu are part of the Frafra tribe. Frafra and English are commonly spoken. Zuarungu is situated 9 km north of Tongo.
Bolgatanga
Photo: Vrinda Khushu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bolgatanga is the capital of Bolgatanga municipality in the Upper East Ghana. It is a land of so many languages and dialects but dominated by the Farefari/Gurene speakers.
Tongo
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Talensi-Nabdam District, Upper East Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
10.7079° or 10° 42′ 29″ northLongitude
-0.803° or 0° 48′ 11″ westElevation
208 metres (682 feet)Open location code
7C2XP55W+5QOpenStreetMap ID
node 2295756236OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Tongo” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Tongo”
- Farefare: “Tongo”
- Finnish: “Tongo”
- Indonesian: “Tongo, Ghana”
- Indonesian: “Tongo”
- Japanese: “トンゴ”
- Polish: “Tongo”
- Swedish: “Tongo, Ghana”
- Swedish: “Tongo”
- Turkish: “Tongo”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tongo”. Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0.