Navrongo
Navrongo is the capital of Kassena-Nankana Municipal in the Upper East Region of Ghana, 30km from the Burkina Faso border. It is known for its historic mud-built cathedral and is a main town in the Ghanaian Northern Plains.Photo: Virtutepetens, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows and St. John Bosco’s College of Education.
Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows
Church
Photo: Kwameghana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Source: The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows is a Roman Catholic cathedral and basilica dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary located in Navrongo, Upper East Region, Ghana.
St. John Bosco’s College of Education
College
St. John Bosco's College of Education is a teacher education college in Navrongo set up in 1946 with 10 male students. The college became a public tertiary institution, established by the Colleges of Education Act 2012, accredited by the National Accreditation Board Ghana, and mandated to train standard teachers for Pre-tertiary Education in Ghana.
Navrongo
- Type: Town with 25,500 residents
- Description: town in the Upper East Region of Ghana
- Category: locality
- Location: Kassena-Nankana District, Upper East Region, Ghanaian Northern Plains, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.8928° or 10° 53′ 34″ northLongitude
-1.0884° or 1° 5′ 18″ westPopulation
25,500Elevation
196 metres (643 feet)Open location code
7C2WVWV6+4MOpenStreetMap ID
node 434389500OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2297505Wikidata ID
Q995548
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Navrongo” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Navrongo”
- Bulgarian: “Навронго”
- Catalan: “Navrongo”
- Cebuano: “Navrongo”
- Chinese: “納夫隆哥”
- Dutch: “Navrongo”
- Esperanto: “Navrongo”
- Farefare: “Navrongo”
- French: “Navrongo”
- Ga: “Navrongo”
- German: “Navrongo”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Navrongo”
- Hausa: “Navrongo”
- Igbo: “Navrongo”
- Japanese: “ナブロンゴ”
- Korean: “나브롱고”
- Kusaal: “Navrongo”
- Polish: “Navrongo”
- Portuguese: “Navrongo”
- Russian: “Навронго (город)”
- Russian: “Навронго”
- Spanish: “Navrongo”
- Swahili: “Navrongo”
- Swedish: “Navrongo”
- Twi: “Navrongo”
- Urdu: “ناورونگو”
- Vietnamese: “Navrongo”
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