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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Gamelmag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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 include Fort Prinzenstein and Keta Senior High Technical School.
Fort Prinzenstein
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fort Prinzenstein is a fort located at Keta, Ghana, which was used in the slave trade. Many such forts were built in Africa, but Prinzenstein is one of the few that lie east of the Volta River.
Keta Senior High Technical School
School
Photo: Noahalorwu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Keta Senior High Technical School formerly Keta Secondary School, is a mixed Public Senior High School located at Dzelukope, a town in the Keta Municipal District of the Volta Region, Ghana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dzelukope.
Dzelukope
Village
Dzelukope is a town located near Keta in the Volta Region of Ghana. Victoria Agbotui, mother of Jerry John Rawlings, was born in Dzelukope in 1919.
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″ northLongitude
0.9911° or 0° 59′ 28″ eastPopulation
22,700United Nations Location Code
GH KITOpen location code
6FQ2WXCR+JCOpenStreetMap ID
node 2921462706OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2299645Wikidata ID
Q1471408
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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”
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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 “Keta”. Photo: Flickr account, OGL.