West Africa
Togo
Maritime Region

Lomé

Lomé is the capital and largest city of . With a population of almost 2.2 million, the city is the economic and cultural center of the country. Around a quarter of the country's population lives here.
Tap on a place
to explore it
villedelome.com
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Photo: Dominik Schwarz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: City with 837,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Togo
  • Also known as: “Lome”, “Lome, Togo”, and “Lomé, Togo”
Photo: Roland Pg, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Togo National Museum and Lomé Cathedral.

Museum
is the national of , located in the capital of Lomé. Founded in 1975, it features cultural and historical exhibits. The museum showcases artifacts dating back thousands of years, including musical instruments such as the xalam…

Church
Photo: Dan Sloan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Sacred Heart Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lomé, one of the seven Catholic church districts of . Built in just over a year by the German colonial authorities, it quickly became one of the iconic buildings of the new capital of Togo.

Monument
Photo: twohundred 2010, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The in Lomé, the capital of , was built as a tribute to the country's independence from on 27 April 1960. It features a white bust of a woman holding up a cooking pot, in front of a silhouette of a figure holding up their arms as if they were breaking chains that shackled them together.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aflao.

Photo: Enock4seth, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a coastal town in bordering . While east of the Togolese side of the border the city is the capital, Lome, the once-called "Pearl of West Africa", the Ghanaian town is a typical African border town built solely to service the movement of people and goods.

Lomé

Latitude
6.1304° or 6° 7′ 50″ north
Longitude
1.2158° or 1° 12′ 57″ east
Population
837,000
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
IATA airport code
LFW
United Nations Location Code
TG LFW
Open location code
6FR346J8+58
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2195276463
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2365267
Wiki­data ID
Q3792
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Lomé from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lomé” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lomé”
  • Albanian: “Lomé”
  • Amharic: “ሎሜ”
  • Arabic: “عاصمة توغو”
  • Arabic: “لومي”
  • Aragonese: “Lomé”
  • Armenian: “Լոմե”
  • Asturian: “Lomé”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lome”
  • Balinese: “Lomé”
  • Bambara: “Lomé”
  • Bashkir: “Ломе”
  • Basque: “Lome”
  • Belarusian: “Ламэ”
  • Belarusian: “Лямэ”
  • Bengali: “lome”
  • Bengali: “Lomé”
  • Bengali: “লোমে”
  • Bosnian: “Lomé”
  • Breton: “Lomé”
  • Bulgarian: “Ломе”
  • Catalan: “Lomé”
  • Cebuano: “Lomé (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Lomé”
  • Central Kurdish: “لۆمێ”
  • Chechen: “Ломе”
  • Chinese: “Lomé”
  • Chinese: “洛美”
  • Croatian: “Lomé”
  • Czech: “Lomé”
  • Danish: “Lomé”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lomé”
  • Dutch: “Lome”
  • Dutch: “Lomé”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لوميه”
  • Esperanto: “Lomeo”
  • Estonian: “Lomé”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Lomé”
  • Finnish: “Lomé”
  • French: “Lomé la belle”
  • French: “Lomé”
  • Fulah: “Lome”
  • Galician: “Lomé”
  • Georgian: “ლომე”
  • German: “Lomé”
  • Greek: “Λομέ”
  • Gujarati: “લોમે”
  • Haitian: “Lome”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Lomé”
  • Hausa: “Lomé”
  • Hebrew: “לומה”
  • Hindi: “लोमे”
  • Hungarian: “Lomé”
  • Icelandic: “Lomé”
  • Ido: “Lome”
  • Inari Sami: “Lomé”
  • Indonesian: “Lomé”
  • Interlingua: “Lomé”
  • Interlingue: “Lomé”
  • Irish: “Lomé”
  • Italian: “Lomé”
  • Japanese: “ロメ”
  • Javanese: “Lomé”
  • Kabiyè: “Loma”
  • Kabyle: “Lomé”
  • Kannada: “ಲೊಮೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Ломе”
  • Kirghiz: “Ломе”
  • Komering: “Lomé”
  • Kongo: “Lome”
  • Korean: “로메”
  • Kotava: “Lomé”
  • Kurdish: “Lomé”
  • Latin: “Lome”
  • Latvian: “Lome”
  • Ligurian: “Lomé”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Lome”
  • Lithuanian: “Lomė”
  • Lombard: “Lomé”
  • Low German: “Lomé”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lomé”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Lomé”
  • Macedonian: “Ломе”
  • Malagasy: “Lomé”
  • Malay: “Lomé”
  • Malayalam: “ലോമെ”
  • Marathi: “लोमे”
  • Mazanderani: “لومه”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lomé”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lomé”
  • Minangkabau: “Lomé”
  • Mingrelian: “ლომე”
  • Moksha: “Ломэ”
  • Mongolian: “Ломе”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لومي”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lomé”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lomé”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lomé”
  • Norwegian: “Lomé”
  • Novial: “Lome”
  • Nyanja: “Lomé”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lomé”
  • Ossetian: “Ломе”
  • Panjabi: “ਲੋਮੇ”
  • Papiamento: “Lomé”
  • Persian: “لومه”
  • Piemontese: “Lomé”
  • Polish: “Lomé”
  • Portuguese: “Lomé”
  • Pushto: “لوم”
  • Quechua: “Lumi”
  • Romanian: “Lomé”
  • Russian: “Ломе”
  • Santali: “ᱞᱳᱢᱮ”
  • Sardinian: “Lomé”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Lomé”
  • Scots: “Lomé”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Lomé”
  • Serbian: “Ломе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lomé”
  • Shona: “Lomé”
  • Sicilian: “Lomé”
  • Silesian: “Lomé”
  • Sindhi: “لومئ”
  • Sinhala: “ලොමේ”
  • Slovak: “Lomé”
  • Slovenian: “Lomé”
  • Somali: “Lome”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لومه”
  • Spanish: “Lomé”
  • Swahili: “Lome”
  • Swedish: “Lome”
  • Swedish: “Lomé”
  • Tagalog: “Lomé”
  • Tajik: “Ломе”
  • Tamil: “லோமே”
  • Telugu: “లొమ్”
  • Thai: “โลเม”
  • Tibetan: “ལཱོ་མེ།”
  • Turkish: “Lomé”
  • Tyap: “Lome”
  • Tyap: “Lomé”
  • Udmurt: “Ломе”
  • Uighur: “لومې”
  • Ukrainian: “Ломе”
  • Urdu: “لومے”
  • Uzbek: “Lome”
  • Venetian: “Lomé”
  • Veps: “Lome”
  • Vietnamese: “Lomé”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lomé”
  • Welsh: “Lomé”
  • Western Frisian: “Lomé”
  • Western Frisian: “Lomee”
  • Western Mari: “Ломе”
  • Western Panjabi: “لوم”
  • Wu Chinese: “洛美”
  • Yiddish: “לאמע”
  • Yoruba: “Lomé”
  • Yue Chinese: “洛美”
  • Zulu: “i-Lomé”
  • “Lomé”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Lomé”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Quartier Administratif and Octaviano-Nétimé.

Togo: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Kara, Koutammakou, Kpalime, and Aného.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
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 “Lomé”. Photo: Dominik Schwarz, CC BY-SA 3.0.