Damongo
Damongo is a town and the capital of West Gonja Municipal. It was declared the capital of the Savannah Region on 12 February 2019. Damongo is home to Bikunuto Jewu Soale I, the paramount chief of the Gonja Kingdom.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Damongo
- Type: Town with 23,500 residents
- Description: capital of Savannah Region, Ghana
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: West Gonja Municipal District, Savannah Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
9.08507° or 9° 5′ 6″ northLongitude
-1.82008° or 1° 49′ 12″ westPopulation
23,500Elevation
219 metres (719 feet)Open location code
6CXW35PH+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1922843399OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2302002Wikidata ID
Q1158732
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Twi—“Damongo” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Damongo”
- Akan: “Esirem”
- Chinese: “达蒙戈”
- Chinese: “達蒙哥”
- Chinese: “達蒙戈”
- Danish: “Damongo”
- Dutch: “Damongo”
- German: “Damongo”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Damongo”
- Hausa: “Damongo”
- Irish: “Damongo”
- Japanese: “ダモンゴ”
- Persian: “دامونگو”
- Polish: “Damongo”
- Russian: “Дамонго”
- Slovenian: “Damongo”
- Swahili: “Damongo”
- Swedish: “Damongo”
- Twi: “Damongo”
- “Damongo”
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