Kakum National Park
Kakum National Park is in the Coastal Plain region, the best preserved region of virgin rainforest in the country. It provides the easiest access to the rainforest along with its famous canopy walkway.Photo: Chiappinik, CC BY 2.5 it.
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- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: national park in Ghana
- Also known as: “Kakum Forest Reserve”
Photo: Kobby Monies, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Kakum National Park
- Categories: national park, forest, and recreation area
- Location: Ghanaian Coastal Plain, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.4401° or 5° 26′ 25″ northLongitude
-1.4058° or 1° 24′ 21″ westElevation
163 metres (535 feet)Open location code
6CQWCHRV+3MOpenStreetMap ID
way 121460713OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveOpenStreetMap feature
natural=woodGeoNames ID
2299888Wikidata ID
Q568693
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kakum National Park” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متنزه كاكوم الوطني”
- Chinese: “卡庫姆國家公園”
- Dagbani: “Kakum National Park”
- Danish: “Kakum nationalpark”
- Danish: “Kakum Nationalpark”
- Dutch: “Kakum National Park”
- Finnish: “Kakumin kansallispuisto”
- French: “Parc National de Kakoum”
- French: “parc national de Kakum”
- French: “Parc national de Kakum”
- German: “Kakum-Nationalpark”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kakum National Park”
- Hausa: “Filin shakatawa na Kakum”
- Indonesian: “Taman Nasional Kakum”
- Italian: “parco nazionale di Kakum”
- Italian: “Parco nazionale di Kakum”
- Italian: “parco nazionale Kakum”
- Japanese: “カクム国立公園”
- Kinyarwanda: “Parike ya Kakum”
- Korean: “카쿰 국립공원”
- Lithuanian: “Kakumo nacionalinis parkas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kakum”
- Polish: “Park Narodowy Kakum”
- Portuguese: “Parque Nacional de Kakum”
- Russian: “Какум”
- Serbian: “Национални парк Какум”
- Sindhi: “ڪاڪم نيشنل پارڪ”
- Slovenian: “Narodni park Kakum”
- Spanish: “Parque nacional de Kakum”
- Swahili: “Hifadhi ya Taifa ya Kakum”
- Swedish: “Kakums nationalpark”
- Tatar: “Какум милли паркы”
- Ukrainian: “Какум”
- Ukrainian: “Національний парк Какум”
- “Kakum National Park”
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