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Koforidua

Koforidua is a city and capital of Eastern Region in south of . Koforidua is regarded as one of the calmest and coolest cities in the country of Ghana.
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  • Type: City with 130,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Eastern Region
  • Also known as: “K-dua”, “Kofcity”, “Kofi Ofori dua”, “Kofi Ofori’s tree”, and “Koftown”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eastern Regional Hospital and New Juaben South Municipal Assembly.

Hospital
Photo: Nkansahrexford, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The also known as Koforidua Regional Hospital is a regional and proposed teaching hospital in Koforidua in the of .

Government office
is one of the thirty-three districts in Eastern Region, . Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger in 1988 until the northern part of the district was split off to create New Juaben North Municipal Assembly on 15 March 2018; thus the remaining part has been renamed as .

Government office
New Juaben North Municipal District is one of the thirty-three districts in Eastern Region, . Originally it was formerly part of the then-larger in 1988, until the northern part of the district was split off to create New Juaben North Municipal District on 15 March 2018; thus the remaining part has been renamed as New Juaben South Municipal District.

Koforidua

Latitude
6.1003° or 6° 6′ 1″ north
Longitude
-0.2615° or 0° 15′ 41″ west
Population
130,000
Elevation
172 metres (564 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GH KOF
Open location code
6CRX4P2Q+4C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 892162451
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2299522
Wiki­data ID
Q406358
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Yoruba—“Koforidua” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Kof-Town”
  • Akan: “Koforidua”
  • Arabic: “كوفوريدوا”
  • Belarusian: “Кафарыдуа”
  • Bengali: “কুফোরিডাস”
  • Bulgarian: “Кофоридуа”
  • Catalan: “Koforidua”
  • Cebuano: “Koforidua”
  • Chinese: “科福里杜亚”
  • Chinese: “科福里杜亞”
  • Croatian: “Koforidua”
  • Czech: “Koforidua”
  • Dagbani: “Koforidua”
  • Danish: “Koforidua”
  • Dutch: “Koforidua”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوفوريدوا”
  • Esperanto: “Koforidua”
  • Fanti: “K-dua”
  • Fanti: “Kofi Ofori dua”
  • Fanti: “Kofi Ofori’s tree”
  • Fanti: “Koforidua”
  • Fanti: “Koftown”
  • Finnish: “Koforidua”
  • French: “Koforidua”
  • Georgian: “კოფორიდუა”
  • German: “Koforidua”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “K-dua”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kofcity”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kofi Ofori dua”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kofi Ofori’s tree”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Koforidua”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Koftown”
  • Greek: “Κοφοριντούα”
  • Gujarati: “કોફોરિડુઆ”
  • Hausa: “K-dua”
  • Hausa: “Kofcity”
  • Hausa: “Kofi Ofori dua”
  • Hausa: “Kofi Ofori’s tree”
  • Hausa: “Koforidua”
  • Hausa: “Koftown”
  • Hebrew: “קופורידוה”
  • Hindi: “कैफोरीदुआ”
  • Indonesian: “Koforidua”
  • Irish: “Koforidua”
  • Italian: “Koforidua”
  • Japanese: “コフォリドゥア”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಫೊರಿಡುವಾ”
  • Korean: “코포리두아”
  • Latvian: “Koforidua”
  • Lithuanian: “Koforidua”
  • Malay: “Koforidua”
  • Marathi: “कोफोरिडुआ”
  • Moksha: “Кофоридуа”
  • Northern Frisian: “Koforidua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Koforidua”
  • Norwegian: “Koforidua”
  • Persian: “کوفوریدوئا”
  • Polish: “Koforidua”
  • Portuguese: “Koforidua”
  • Romanian: “Koforidua”
  • Russian: “Кофоридуа”
  • Sinhala: “කොෆොරිදුආ”
  • Slovenian: “Koforidua”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوفوریدوئا”
  • Spanish: “Koforidua”
  • Swahili: “Koforidua”
  • Swedish: “Koforidua”
  • Tamil: “கோபோரிடுஆ”
  • Telugu: “కొఫోరిదుఆ”
  • Thai: “โคโฟริดัว”
  • Turkish: “Koforidua”
  • Twi: “K-dua”
  • Twi: “Kofi Ofori dua”
  • Twi: “Kofi Ofori’s tree”
  • Twi: “Koforidua”
  • Twi: “Koftown”
  • Ukrainian: “Кофорідуа”
  • Urdu: “کوفوریدوا”
  • Venetian: “Koforidua”
  • Vietnamese: “Koforidua”
  • Wu Chinese: “科福里杜亚”
  • Yoruba: “Koforidua”

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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 “Koforidua”. Photo: Samson Craig McArthur Sik, CC BY-SA 4.0.