Ho
Ho is the capital of the Ho Municipal Assembly and the Volta Region of Ghana. The city lies between Mount Adaklu and Mount Galenukui or Togo Atakora Range, and is home to the Volta Regional Museum, a cathedral, and a prison.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 83,700 residents
- Description: Volta regional capital, Ghana
- Also known as: “Ho, Ghana” and “Hohoe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ho Municipal Assembly and Volta Regional Museum.
Ho Municipal Assembly
Government office
Ho Municipal Assembly is one of the 25 administrative Districts in the Volta Region, Ghana. It is made up of total land size of 2,361 km2 and a total estimated population of 213,960 in 2017, 105,195 being males and 108,765 are females.
Volta Regional Museum
Museum
Photo: Mawulicherubim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Volta Regional Museum is a museum in Ho, Ghana. The museum is dedicated to the history and traditions of the Volta Region. The museum is administered by the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board.
Ho Teaching Hospital
Hospital
Ho Teaching Hospital formerly Volta Regional Hospital and popularly known as Trafalgar is the regional and teaching hospital in Ho in the Volta Region of Ghana.
Ho
- Category: locality
- Location: Ho Municipal Assembly, Volta Region, Volta Basin, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.6127° or 6° 36′ 46″ northLongitude
0.4689° or 0° 28′ 8″ eastPopulation
83,700Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)United Nations Location Code
GH HOVOpen location code
6FR2JF79+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 434449745OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Vietnamese—“Ho” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Ho”
- Akan: “Но”
- Arabic: “هو”
- Armenian: “Հո (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Հո”
- Asturian: “Ho”
- Belarusian: “Хо”
- Catalan: “Ho (Ghana)”
- Catalan: “Ho”
- Cebuano: “Ho (kapital sa rehiyon)”
- Chinese: “霍城”
- Croatian: “Ho (Gana)”
- Croatian: “Ho”
- Dagbani: “Hoo”
- Danish: “Ho (Ghana)”
- Danish: “Ho”
- Dutch: “Ho (Ghana)”
- Dutch: “Ho”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هو”
- Esperanto: “Ho (Ganao)”
- Esperanto: “Ho”
- Farefare: “Ho”
- Finnish: “Ho (Ghana)”
- Finnish: “Ho”
- French: “Ho (Ghana)”
- French: “Ho”
- Ga: “Ho”
- German: “Ho (Ghana)”
- German: “Ho”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ho, Ghana”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ho”
- Hausa: “Ho, Ghana”
- Hausa: “Ho”
- Hebrew: “הו”
- Italian: “Ho (Ghana)”
- Italian: “Ho”
- Japanese: “ホ”
- Korean: “호”
- Lithuanian: “Ho (Gana)”
- Lithuanian: “Ho”
- Moksha: “Го”
- Mossi: “Ho”
- Northern Frisian: “Ho (Ghaana)”
- Northern Frisian: “Ho”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ho”
- Norwegian: “Ho (Ghana)”
- Persian: “هو، غنا”
- Persian: “هو٬ غنا”
- Polish: “Ho (miasto)”
- Polish: “Ho”
- Portuguese: “Ho”
- Romanian: “Ho, Ghana”
- Romanian: “Ho”
- Russian: “Хо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ho (Gana)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ho”
- Slovenian: “Ho”
- South Azerbaijani: “هو٬ غنا”
- Spanish: “Ho, Ghana”
- Spanish: “Ho”
- Swahili: “Ho, Ghana”
- Swahili: “Ho”
- Swedish: “Ho, Ghana”
- Swedish: “Ho”
- Twi: “Ho”
- Ukrainian: “Го”
- Ukrainian: “Хо (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Хо”
- Urdu: “ہو، گھانا”
- Urdu: “ہو”
- Vietnamese: “Ho (Ghana)”
- Vietnamese: “Ho”
- “Ho”
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