Keta
Keta is a coastal town in the Ghanaian Coastal Plain. The town sits on a sandbar of land that separates the Keta Lagoon from the Gulf of Guinea.
- Type: Town with 22,700 residents
- Description: coastal community in Volta Region, Ghana
- Also known as: “Kitta”, “Kwitta”, and “Quittah”
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: Fort Prinzenstein and Keta Senior High Technical School.
Fort Prinzenstein
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dzelukope.
Keta
- Categories: city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Volta Region, Ghanaian Coastal Plain, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.9216° or 5° 55′ 18″ north
Longitude
0.9911° or 0° 59′ 28″ east
Population
22,700
UN/LOCODE
GH KIT
Open location code
6FQ2WXCR+JC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Yoruba—“Keta” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կետա”
- Asturian: “Keta”
- Basque: “Keta”
- Catalan: “Keta”
- Cebuano: “Keta”
- Chinese: “凱塔”
- Dutch: “Keta”
- Ewe: “Keta”
- French: “Keta”
- German: “Keta”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Keta”
- Hausa: “Keta”
- Indonesian: “Keta”
- Irish: “Keta”
- Japanese: “ケタ”
- Korean: “케타”
- Lithuanian: “Keta”
- Persian: “کتا”
- Polish: “Keta”
- Russian: “Кета”
- Spanish: “Keta (localidad)”
- Spanish: “Keta”
- Swahili: “Keta”
- Swedish: “Keta, Ghana”
- Swedish: “Keta”
- Turkish: “Keta”
- Urdu: “کیٹا”
- Yoruba: “Keta”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Abutiakope and Vodza.
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