Axim

Axim is a coastal town and the capital of , a district in of South . Axim lies 64 kilometers west of the port city of in the Western Region, west of .
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  • Type: Town with 27,700 residents
  • Description: coastal town in Western Region, Ghana
  • Also known as: “Esim”, “Ασίμ”, “アキシム”, and “アシム”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Fort Saint Anthony and Nzema East Municipal District.

Castle
Photo: Jesuraj Alakassery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
was a fort built by the Portuguese…

Government office
is one of the fourteen districts in Western Region, .

Axim

Latitude
4.8654° or 4° 51′ 55″ north
Longitude
-2.2422° or 2° 14′ 32″ west
Population
27,700
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
UN/LOCODE
GH AXI
Open location code
6CPVVQ85+44
Open­Street­Map ID
node 443416948
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2303611
Wiki­data ID
Q792509
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Axim” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “اكسيم”
  • Asturian: “Axim”
  • Catalan: “Axim”
  • Cebuano: “Axim”
  • Chinese: “阿克西姆”
  • Danish: “Axim”
  • Dutch: “Axim”
  • Esperanto: “Axim”
  • French: “Axim”
  • Galician: “Axim”
  • German: “Axim”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Axim”
  • Greek: “Άξιμ”
  • Hausa: “Axim”
  • Hebrew: “אשים”
  • Interlingue: “Axim”
  • Irish: “Axim”
  • Italian: “Axim”
  • Japanese: “アクシム”
  • Lithuanian: “Aksimas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Axim”
  • Norwegian: “Axim”
  • Persian: “آکسیم”
  • Polish: “Axim”
  • Portuguese: “Axém”
  • Portuguese: “Axim”
  • Russian: “Аксим”
  • Slovenian: “Aksim”
  • Spanish: “Axim”
  • Swahili: “Axim”
  • Swedish: “Axim”
  • Turkish: “Axim”
  • Ukrainian: “Аксім”
  • Urdu: “اکسیم”
  • Yoruba: “Axim”

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