Bolgatanga

Bolgatanga is the capital of Bolgatanga municipality in the Upper East Ghana. It is a land of so many languages and dialects but dominated by the Farefari/Gurene speakers.
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  • Type: City with 66,700 residents
  • Description: capital of the Upper East Region, Ghana
  • Also known as: “bo er jia tan jia”, “Bolagatanga”, “Bolga”, “Bolgatange”, and “borugatanga”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bolgatanga Municipal District.

Government office
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is one of the fifteen districts in , . Originally created as an ordinary district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Bolgatanga District; which was established by Legislative Instrument 1438, until the…

Bolgatanga

Latitude
10.7854° or 10° 47′ 7″ north
Longitude
-0.8487° or 0° 50′ 55″ west
Population
66,700
Elevation
191 metres (627 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GH BTG
Open location code
7C2XQ5P2+5G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 434420117
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2302821
Wiki­data ID
Q4939409
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Akan to Volapük—“Bolgatanga” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Bolgatanga”
  • Akan: “Esirem”
  • Armenian: “Բոլգատանգա”
  • Asturian: “Bolgatanga”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bolqatanqa”
  • Belarusian: “Балгатанга”
  • Belarusian: “Балтаганга”
  • Catalan: “Bolgatanga”
  • Cebuano: “Bolgatanga (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Bolgatanga”
  • Central Kanuri: “Bolgatanga”
  • Chinese: “博尔加坦加”
  • Chinese: “博爾加坦加”
  • Croatian: “Bolgatanga”
  • Dagbani: “Bolgatanga”
  • Danish: “Bolgatanga”
  • Dutch: “Bolgatanga”
  • Farefare: “Ayiia da’a”
  • Farefare: “Bolgatanga”
  • Farefare: “Bɔlegataŋa”
  • Finnish: “Bolgatanga”
  • French: “Bolgatanga”
  • German: “Bolgatanga”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bolga”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bolgatanga”
  • Hausa: “Bolga”
  • Hausa: “Bolgatanga”
  • Hebrew: “בולגטאנגה”
  • Igbo: “Bolga”
  • Igbo: “Bolgatanga”
  • Irish: “Bolgatanga”
  • Italian: “Bolgatanga”
  • Japanese: “ボルガタンガ”
  • Kanuri: “Bolga”
  • Kanuri: “Bolgatanga”
  • Korean: “볼가탕가”
  • Kusaal: “Bolga”
  • Kusaal: “Bolgatanga”
  • Lithuanian: “Bolgatanga”
  • Mossi: “Bolgatanga”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bolgatanga”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bolgatanga”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bolgatanga”
  • Norwegian: “Bolgatanga”
  • Persian: “بولگاتانگا”
  • Polish: “Bolgatanga”
  • Portuguese: “Bolgatanga”
  • Romanian: “Bolgatanga”
  • Russian: “Болгатанга”
  • Russian: “Болгатанге”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Bolga”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Bolgatanga”
  • Spanish: “Bolgatanga”
  • Swahili: “Bolgatanga”
  • Swedish: “Bolgatanga”
  • Tagalog: “Bolgatanga”
  • Twi: “Bolgatanga”
  • Ukrainian: “Болгатанга”
  • Ukrainian: “Болґатанга”
  • Venetian: “Bolgatanga”
  • Vietnamese: “Bolgatanga”
  • Volapük: “Bolgatanga”
  • “Bolga”
  • “Bolgatanga”

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