Cape Coast
Cape Coast is a city in the Coastal Plain region of Ghana. It's a 2 hour 15 minutes drive from the capital city, Accra.
- City with 155,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 21 metres (69 feet)
- Description: capital city of Central Region in Ghana
- Also known as“Cabo Corso”“Cape”“Cape Coast Castle”“Gold Coast”“Igua Ogwa”“Kotokuraba”“Oguaa”“Ogwa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape Coast Castle and Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly.
Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly
Government office
Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly is one of the twenty-two districts in Central Region, Ghana.
Cape Coast
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Latitude
5.1081° or 5° 6′ 29″ north
Longitude
-1.2417° or 1° 14′ 30″ west
UN/LOCODE
GH CCT
Open location code
6CQW4Q55+68
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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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”
- Mossi: “Cabo Corso”
- Mossi: “Cape Coast”
- Mossi: “Cape”
- Mossi: “Gold Coast”
- Mossi: “Kotokuraba”
- Mossi: “Oguaa”
- 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”
- Tajik: “Кейп-Кост”
- 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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