Axim
Axim is a coastal town and the capital of Nzema East Municipal district, a district in Western Region of South Ghana. Axim lies 64 kilometers west of the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region, west of Cape Three Points.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 27,700 residents
- Description: coastal town in Western Region, Ghana
- Also known as: “Esim”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Saint Anthony and Nzema East Municipal District.
Fort Saint Anthony
Castle
Photo: Jesuraj Alakassery, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Saint Anthony was a fort built by the Portuguese in 1515 near the town of Axim, in what is now Ghana. In 1642, the Dutch captured the fort and subsequently made it part of the Dutch Gold Coast.
Nzema East Municipal District
Government office
Nzema East Municipal District is one of the fourteen districts in Western Region, Ghana. It was originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Nzema East District, which was created from the former Nzema District Council…
Axim
- Categories: city or town, administrative center, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Nzema East Municipal District, Western Region, Ghanaian Coastal Plain, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
4.8654° or 4° 51′ 55″ northLongitude
-2.2422° or 2° 14′ 32″ westPopulation
27,700Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)United Nations Location Code
GH AXIOpen location code
6CPVVQ85+44OpenStreetMap ID
node 443416948OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Greek: “Ασίμ”
- Hausa: “Axim”
- Hebrew: “אשים”
- Interlingue: “Axim”
- Irish: “Axim”
- Italian: “Axim”
- Japanese: “アキシム”
- Japanese: “アクシム”
- Japanese: “アシム”
- 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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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 “Axim”. Photo: Ottomuc, CC BY-SA 3.0.