Salaga
Salaga is the capital of East Gonja Municipal in the Volta Basin region of Ghana. Once one of the most important market towns in West Africa, it was the largest slave market in the region in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Town with about 25,500 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 160 metres (530 feet)
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as“sallaga”“saraga”
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Latitude
8.5506° or 8° 33′ 2″ north
Longitude
-0.5197° or 0° 31′ 11″ west
Open location code
6CWXHF2J+64
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Urdu—“Salaga” goes by many names.
SalagaIrish
SalagaItalian
サラガJapanese
살라가Korean
SalagaKusaal
SalagaRomanian
СалагаRussian
SalagaSwahili
SalagaSwedish
SalagaTurkish
سالاگاUrdu
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