Paga
Paga is a town in Upper East Region of Ghana, lying north of Bolgatanga. Paga is the capital of Kassena Nankana West District, a district in the Upper East Region in the northern part of Ghana.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dieu-Donné Gameli, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town
- Description: town and district capital in Upper East Region of Ghana
- Also known as: “Paga Kakungu” and “Poga”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Paga Crocodile Pond.
Paga Crocodile Pond
Pond
Photo: Dieu-Donné Gameli, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Paga Crocodile Pond is a sacred pond in Paga in the Upper East Region of Ghana, which is inhabited by West African crocodiles. Due to the friendliness of the reptiles, it has become popular among tourists and the pond is now reliant on tourism to ensure the population of crocodiles remain fed and healthy.
Paga
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kassena-Nankana West District, Upper East Region, Ghanaian Northern Plains, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
10.97° or 10° 58′ 12″ northLongitude
-1.1017° or 1° 6′ 6″ westElevation
208 metres (682 feet)Open location code
7C2WXVCX+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 1912302968OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yoruba—“Paga” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Paga”
- Dutch: “Paga”
- Fanti: “Paga”
- Farefare: “Paga”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Paga”
- Hausa: “Paga”
- Irish: “Paga”
- Japanese: “パガ”
- Polish: “Paga”
- Portuguese: “Paga”
- Swedish: “Paga”
- Turkish: “Paga”
- Twi: “Paga”
- Yoruba: “Paga”
- “Paga”
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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 Wikipedia page “Paga”. Photo: Dieu-Donné Gameli, CC BY-SA 3.0.