Buipe
Buipe is a river port and junction town in Central Gonja District in the Savannah Region of the Volta Basin of Ghana. Sitting on the Black Volta River and on the main Tamale - Kumasi highway, it is famous for the Buipe Bridge, its inland port, shea butter factories, and as the gateway between northern and southern Ghana.- Town
- …lies at an elevation of 167 metres (548 feet)
- Description: district capital in Northern Region, Ghana
- Also known as“New Buipe”“Old Buipe”
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Latitude
8.7894° or 8° 47′ 22″ north
Longitude
-1.4682° or 1° 28′ 6″ west
Open location code
6CWWQGQJ+QP
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In Other Languages
From Dagbani to Turkish—“Buipe” goes by many names.
- Dagbani: “Gbupe”
- Dutch: “Buipe”
- Dutch: “New Buipe”
- French: “Buipe”
- Irish: “Buipe”
- Japanese: “ブイペ”
- Kusaal: “Buipe”
- Russian: “Буйпе”
- Swedish: “Buipe”
- Turkish: “Buipe”
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