Ghana
Central Region
Gomoa East District

Buduburam

Buduburam is a refugee camp located 44 kilometers west of , . It is along the Accra-Cape Coast Highway. Opened by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1990, the camp is home to more than 12,000 refugees from who fled their country during the First Liberian Civil War and the Second Liberian Civil War.
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  • Type: Town with 63,200 residents
  • Description: city in Central Region, Ghana
  • Also known as: “Bruburam”, “Buduburam Refugee Camp”, and “Budumburan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Awutu Senya West.

Government office
District is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, . Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger on 29 February 2008, until the eastern part of the district was split off to create Awutu Senya East District on 28 June 2012; thus the remaining part has been renamed as District. is situated 4 km west of Buduburam.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kasoa.

Town
is a peri-urban town in the Awutu Senya East Municipal District of the of Ghana. is situated 4½ km east of Buduburam.

Buduburam

Latitude
5.5235° or 5° 31′ 25″ north
Longitude
-0.4776° or 0° 28′ 40″ west
Population
63,200
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
Open location code
6CQXGGFC+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 990129055
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2302541
Wiki­data ID
Q4985179
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Satellite Map

Discover Buduburam from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Spanish—“Buduburam” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Buduburam”
  • Belarusian: “Будубурам”
  • Chinese: “布都布拉姆”
  • Czech: “Buduburam”
  • Dutch: “Buduburam”
  • French: “Buduburam”
  • German: “Buduburam”
  • Greek: “Μπουντουμπούραμ”
  • Hebrew: “בודובורם”
  • Italian: “Buduburam”
  • Japanese: “ブドゥブラム・キャンプ”
  • Japanese: “ブドゥブラム”
  • Japanese: “ブドゥブラム難民キャンプ”
  • Lithuanian: “Buduburamas”
  • Polish: “Buduburam”
  • Spanish: “Buduburam”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include St. Gregory Catholic Hospital and Ghana Police Service.

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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 “Buduburam”. Photo: Acarvin, CC BY-SA 2.5.