Sefwi-Bekwai
Sefwi Bekwai is a town in Bibiani Anhwiaso Bekwai District in the Western North Region of Ghana. It is one of three autonomous historical states, along with Sefwi Wiawso and Sefwi-Anhwiaso, which make up the Kingdom of Sefwi with each state governed by its own paramount chief while sharing a common language, religious tradition, and festival system.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town
- Description: town in the Western Region of Ghana
- Also known as: “Bekwai” and “Sehwi Bekwai”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Awaso.
Awaso
Town
Awaso is a village near the district capital Bibiani of Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Municipal district, a district in the Western North Region of Ghana. Awaso has a bauxite mine operated by the Ghana Bauxite Company. Awaso is situated 7 km northeast of Sefwi-Bekwai.
Sefwi-Bekwai
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Bibiani/Anhwiaso/Bekwai Municipal District, Western North Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.19461° or 6° 11′ 41″ northLongitude
-2.3227° or 2° 19′ 22″ westElevation
171 metres (561 feet)Open location code
6CRV5MVG+RWOpenStreetMap ID
node 443420369OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Ghanaian Pidgin English to Russian—“Sefwi-Bekwai” goes by many names.
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sefwi-Bekwai”
- Hausa: “Sefwi-Bekwai”
- Irish: “Sefwi-Bekwai”
- Polish: “Sefwi Bekwai”
- Polish: “Sefwi”
- Russian: “Сефви-Бекваи”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Sefwi-Bekwai”. Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0.