1st District
1st District is a district in Togo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Togo National Museum and Lomé Cathedral.
Togo National Museum
Museum
Togo National Museum is the national museum of Togo, 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…
Lomé Cathedral
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 Togo. 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.
Independence Monument
Monument
Photo: twohundred 2010, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Independence Monument in Lomé, the capital of Togo, was built as a tribute to the country's independence from France 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 Lomé and Aflao.
Lomé
Photo: Dominik Schwarz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lomé is the capital and largest city of Togo. 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.
Aflao
Photo: Enock4seth, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aflao is a coastal town in Ghana bordering Togo. 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.
Denu
Town
Photo: Enock4seth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Denu is a small town which is the capital of Ketu South Municipal, a district on the south-eastern corner of the Volta Region of Ghana, next to Aflao the border town with Togo.
1st District
- Type: District
- Also known as: “1er Arr.”, “Lomé 1er”, and “Lomé 1st”
- Category: locality
- Location: Togo, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
6.127° or 6° 7′ 37″ northLongitude
1.2241° or 1° 13′ 27″ eastOpen location code
6FR346GF+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 4418238569OpenStreetMap feature
place=district
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In Other Languages
“1st District” goes by many names.
- French: “1er Arrondissement”
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