Nkawkaw
Nkawkaw is a town in southern Ghana and is the capital of Kwahu West Municipal, an area in the Eastern Region of south Ghana. Nkawkaw has a 2013 settlement population of 61,785 people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Kwahu West Municipal District.
Kwahu West Municipal District
Government office
Kwahu West Municipal District is one of the thirty-three districts in Eastern Region, Ghana. Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger Kwahu South District in 1988, which was created from the former Kwahu District Council, until the southwest part…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mpraeso.
Mpraeso
Town
Mpraeso is a town and the capital of Kwahu South district, a district in the Eastern Region of south Ghana, located at an altitude of 367 m on the Kwahu Plateau, which forms the south-west boundary of Lake Volta. Mpraeso is situated 6 km northeast of Nkawkaw.
Nkawkaw
- Type: Town with 61,800 residents
- Description: human settlement in Eastern Region, Ghana
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kwahu West Municipal District, Eastern Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.5528° or 6° 33′ 10″ northLongitude
-0.76981° or 0° 46′ 11″ westPopulation
61,800Elevation
254 metres (833 feet)Open location code
6CRXH63J+43OpenStreetMap ID
node 2165312314OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
12640506Wikidata ID
Q1025019
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Nkawkaw” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نكاوكاو”
- Armenian: “Նկավկաու”
- Catalan: “Nkawkaw”
- Cebuano: “Nkawkaw”
- Dutch: “Nkawkaw”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نكاوكاو”
- French: “Nkawkaw”
- Galician: “Nkawkaw”
- German: “Nkawkaw”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Nkawkaw”
- Hausa: “Nkawkaw”
- Hebrew: “נקאווקאו”
- Italian: “Nkawkaw”
- Japanese: “ンカウカウ”
- Lithuanian: “Nkaukau”
- Moksha: “Нкавкав”
- Polish: “Nkawkaw”
- Portuguese: “Nkawkaw”
- Russian: “Нкаукау”
- Russian: “Нкоко”
- Silesian: “Nkawkaw”
- Slovenian: “Nkawkaw”
- Spanish: “Nkawkaw”
- Swahili: “Nkawkaw”
- Swedish: “Nkawkaw”
- Turkish: “Nkawkaw”
- Twi: “Nkawkaw”
- Twi: “Nkɔkɔɔ”
- Ukrainian: “Нкавкав”
- Urdu: “نکاوکاو”
- Veps: “Nkaukau”
- Vietnamese: “Nkawkaw”
- Yoruba: “Nkawkaw”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Liberty Church of Ghana and Nkawkaw Post Office.
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