Ghanaian Coastal Plain
Central Region
Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly

Cape Coast

Cape Coast is a city in the region of . It's a 2 hour 15 minutes drive from the capital city, Accra.
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  • Type: City with 155,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Central Region in Ghana
  • Also known as: “Cabo Corso”, “Cape”, “Cape Coast Castle”, “Gold Coast”, “Igua Ogwa”, “Kotokuraba”, “Oguaa”, and “Ogwa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cape Coast Castle and Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly.

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is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of by European traders. is located in the Central Region of Ghana.

Government office
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is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, . Originally created as a municipal district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Cape Coast Municipal District, which was created from the Cape Coast Municipal Council; until it was later elevated to metropolitan district assembly status on 29 February 2008 to become Cape Coast Metropolitan District.

Photo: Owula kpakpo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort William Lighthouse is a lighthouse located on Dawson's Hill in the old town of Cape Coast, 's Central Region. Despite the alternate name, it is not part of the , lying approximately 600 metres away from the castle.

Cape Coast

Latitude
5.1075° or 5° 6′ 27″ north
Longitude
-1.2431° or 1° 14′ 35″ west
Population
155,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GH CCT
Open location code
6CQW4Q44+XQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 990129709
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2302357
Wiki­data ID
Q221283
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Wu Chinese—“Cape Coast” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Cape Coast”
  • Akan: “Oguaa”
  • Arabic: “كيب كوست”
  • Armenian: “Քեյպ Քոստ”
  • Basque: “Cape Coast”
  • Belarusian: “Кейп-Кост”
  • Bengali: “কেপ কোস্ট”
  • Breton: “Cape Coast”
  • Catalan: “Cape Coast”
  • Cebuano: “Cape Coast (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Cape Coast”
  • Central Kanuri: “Cape Coast”
  • Chinese: “海岸角”
  • Croatian: “Cape Coast”
  • Czech: “Cape Coast”
  • Dagbani: “Cape Coast”
  • Danish: “Cape Coast”
  • Dutch: “Cape Coast”
  • Esperanto: “Cape Coast”
  • Esperanto: “Kaba Bordo”
  • Ewe: “Cape Coast”
  • Fanti: “Cape Coast”
  • Fanti: “Cape”
  • Finnish: “Cape Coast”
  • French: “Cape Coast”
  • German: “Cape Coast”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Cabo Corso”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Cape Coast”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Cape”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kotokuraba”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Oguaa”
  • Greek: “Κέιπ Κόουστ”
  • Gujarati: “કેપ કોસ્ટ”
  • Hausa: “Cabo Corso”
  • Hausa: “Cape Coast”
  • Hausa: “Kotokuraba”
  • Hausa: “Oguaa”
  • Hebrew: “קייפ קוסט”
  • Hindi: “केप कोस्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Cape Coast”
  • Indonesian: “Cape Coast”
  • Irish: “Cape Coast”
  • Italian: “Cape Coast”
  • Japanese: “ケープ・コースト”
  • Kannada: “ಕೇಪ್ ಕೋಸ್ಟ್”
  • Korean: “케이프코스트”
  • Latin: “Caput Cursum”
  • Latvian: “Keipkosta”
  • Lithuanian: “Keip Kostas”
  • Malay: “Cape Coast”
  • Marathi: “केप कोस्ट”
  • Moksha: “Кэйп Кост”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cape Coast”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Coast”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Coast”
  • Norwegian: “Cape Coast”
  • Persian: “کیپ کوست”
  • Polish: “Cape Coast”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo Corso”
  • Portuguese: “Cape Coast”
  • Romanian: “Cape Coast”
  • Russian: “Кейп-Кост”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cape Coast”
  • Silesian: “Cape Coast”
  • Sinhala: “කේප් කෝස්ට්”
  • Slovenian: “Cape Coast”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیپ کوست”
  • Spanish: “Cape Coast”
  • Spanish: “Costa del Cabo”
  • Swahili: “Cape Coast”
  • Swedish: “Cape Coast”
  • Tamil: “கபே கோஸ்ட”
  • Telugu: “కేప్ కోస్ట్”
  • Thai: “เคปโคสท์”
  • Turkish: “Cape Caost”
  • Turkish: “Cape Coast”
  • Twi: “Cape Coast”
  • Twi: “Cape”
  • Ukrainian: “Кейп-Кост”
  • Urdu: “کیپ کوسٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Cape Coast”
  • Uzbek: “Keyp-kost”
  • Venetian: “Cape Coast”
  • Vietnamese: “Cape Coast”
  • Welsh: “Cape Coast”
  • Wu Chinese: “海岸角”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Cape Coast”. Photo: Erik Cleves Kristensen, CC BY 2.0.