Cape Coast Castle

Cape Coast Castle is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of by European traders. Cape Coast Castle is located in the Central Region of Ghana.
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  • Tourist attraction
  • …lies at an elevation of 7 metres (23 feet)
  • …is also known as “Carolusborg”
  • Description: former fortified colonial trading post in Ghana

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cape Coast Light and Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly.
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Fort William Lighthouse is a lighthouse located… is situated 610 metres northwest of Cape Coast Castle.
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is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, . is situated 1¼ km northwest of Cape Coast Castle.
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is an all-boys day and boarding… is situated 2 km northwest of Cape Coast Castle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cape Coast and Moree.
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is a city in the region of .
is a town with small seaside resort… is situated 5 km northeast of Cape Coast Castle.
is a small town near in the… is situated 8 km northeast of Cape Coast Castle.

Cape Coast Castle

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Latitude
5.10369° or 5° 6′ 13″ north
Longitude
-1.24097° or 1° 14′ 28″ west
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
way 216864117
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
11808940
Wiki­data ID
Q1254826

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In Other Languages

From Akan to Turkish—“Cape Coast Castle” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Oguaa Abankese”
  • Arabic: “قلعة كيب كوست”
  • Catalan: “Castell de Cape Coast”
  • Catalan: “Castell de Costa del Cap”
  • Chinese: “海岸角城堡”
  • Chinese: “海岸角堡”
  • Dagbani: “Cape Coast Castle”
  • Danish: “Carolusborg”
  • Dutch: “Cape Coast Castle”
  • French: “Fort de Cape Coast”
  • German: “Cape Coast Castle”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Cape Coast Castle”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Carolusborg”
  • Hausa: “Carolusborg”
  • Hausa: “Sansanin Cape Coast”
  • Hebrew: “מצודת קייפ קוסט”
  • Italian: “Cape Coast Castle”
  • Japanese: “ケープ・コースト城”
  • Latin: “Castellum Capitis Cursi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Coast Castle”
  • Norwegian: “Cape Coast Castle”
  • Portuguese: “Cape Coast Castle”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo da Costa do Cabo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dvorac Cape Coast”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tvrđava Cape Coast”
  • Spanish: “Castillo de la Costa del Cabo”
  • Swedish: “Carolusborg”
  • Tatar: “Кэйп-Кост (Каролюсборг) кирмәнчеге”
  • Turkish: “Cape Coast Kalesi”

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