Red Volta
The Red Volta or Nazinon is a waterway located in West Africa. It emerges near Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and has a length of about 320 km at the end of which it joins the White Volta in Ghana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Burkina Faso and Ghana
- Also known as: “Nazinon”
Red Volta
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Red Volta from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Twi—“Red Volta” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Red Volta”
- Basque: “Nazinon”
- Basque: “Volta Gorria”
- Catalan: “Volta Roig”
- Cebuano: “Red Volta”
- Chinese: “紅沃爾特河”
- Chinese: “红沃尔特河”
- Croatian: “Crvena Volta”
- Dutch: “Red Volta”
- Dutch: “Rode Volta”
- French: “Volta Rouge”
- Georgian: “წითელი ვოლტა”
- German: “Roter Volta”
- Hausa: “Red Volta”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Volta Merah”
- Italian: “Nazinon”
- Italian: “Volta Rosso”
- Japanese: “赤ヴォルタ川”
- Lithuanian: “Raudonoji Volta”
- Macedonian: “Црвена Волта”
- Malagasy: “Volta Rouge”
- Northern Frisian: “Ruad Volta (Struum)”
- Northern Frisian: “Ruad Volta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Røde Volta”
- Norwegian: “Røde Volta”
- Polish: “Czerwona Wolta”
- Polish: “Nazinon”
- Polish: “Wolta Czerwona”
- Portuguese: “Rio Volta Vermelho”
- Portuguese: “Volta Vermelho”
- Russian: “Красная Вольта”
- Serbian: “Crvena Volta”
- Serbian: “Црвена Волта”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Crvena Volta”
- Slovak: “Červená Volta”
- Slovenian: “Nazinon”
- Slovenian: “Rdeča Volta”
- Spanish: “Nazinon”
- Spanish: “Rio Volta Rojo”
- Spanish: “Río Volta Rojo”
- Spanish: “Volta Rojo”
- Swedish: “Nazinon”
- Swedish: “Red Volta”
- Swedish: “Röda Volta”
- Turkish: “Kırmızı Volta Nehri”
- Turkish: “Kırmızı Volta”
- Twi: “Volta kɔkɔɔ”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Shienga and Bango.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kpelkpea and Red Volta West Forest Reserve.
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Red Volta”. Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0.