Ghana
Upper East Region
Bawku Municipal District

Bawku

Bawku is a town in and the capital of , Upper East Region, in north Ghana, adjacent to the border with . The municipality has a total land area of about 257 km2.
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  • Type: Town with 61,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Bɔkɔ”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pusiga.

Village
is a town in the of . is situated 4½ km east of Bawku.

Bawku

Latitude
11.0608° or 11° 3′ 39″ north
Longitude
-0.2423° or 0° 14′ 32″ west
Population
61,000
Elevation
228 metres (748 feet)
Open location code
7C3X3Q65+83
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1964360968
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2303287
Wiki­data ID
Q812036
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Bawku” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باوكو”
  • Cebuano: “Bawku”
  • Croatian: “Bawku”
  • Dagbani: “Bawku”
  • Dagbani: “Bɔkɔ”
  • Dutch: “Bawku”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باوكو”
  • Farefare: “Bawku”
  • Farefare: “Bɔkɔ”
  • French: “Bawku”
  • German: “Bawku”
  • Hausa: “Bawku”
  • Hausa: “Bɔkɔ”
  • Igbo: “Bawku”
  • Igbo: “Bɔkɔ”
  • Irish: “Bawku”
  • Italian: “Bawku”
  • Japanese: “バウク”
  • Kusaal: “Bawku”
  • Kusaal: “Bɔkɔ”
  • Moksha: “Бавку”
  • Mossi: “Bawku”
  • Mossi: “Bɔkɔ”
  • Polish: “Bawku”
  • Portuguese: “Bawku”
  • Romanian: “Bawku”
  • Russian: “Боку”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Bawku”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Bɔkɔ”
  • Spanish: “Bawku”
  • Swahili: “Bawku”
  • Swedish: “Bawku”
  • Turkish: “Bawku”
  • Ukrainian: “Бавку”
  • Vietnamese: “Bawku”
  • Volapük: “Bawku”

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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 “Bawku”. Photo: Simon Ontoyin, CC BY-SA 3.0.