Sekondi-Takoradi
Sekondi and Takoradi are adjacent port cities; the combined municipality forms the capital of Western Ghana.
- Type: City with 445,000 residents
- Description: city in Ghana
- Also known as: “Oil City”, “Sekondi”, “Sekondi Takoradi”, and “Taadi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital and Fijai Senior High School.
Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital
Hospital
Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital is one of the ten regional hospitals of Ghana located in the Western Region. It is a secondary health facility which also receives referrals from the Western corridor of Ghana.
Fijai Senior High School
School
Fijai Senior High School, formerly Fijai Secondary School, is a co-educational senior high school located in the Western Region of Ghana. The name Fijai is from the native dialect "Afei Gyae Me", which literally means "Now, leave me alone".
Archbishop Porter Girls’ Senior High School
School
The Archbishop Porter Girls' Senior High School is a Catholic senior secondary school for girls, located in Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana. The female second cycle institution operates within the Ghana Public Education System.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Takoradze and New Takoradi.
New Takoradi
Suburb
New Takoradi is a town in the Western region of Ghana. It is 3 kilometres from the centre Takoradi the Western regional capital. The serves both as a dormitory town as well as an industrialized zone.
Tanokrom
Suburb
Tanokrom is a town in Ghana. It is located five kilometers from Takoradi the regional capital of the Western region of Ghana. It is a dormitory town and provides housing facilities for several families who work in and around Takoradi.
Sekondi-Takoradi
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, Western Region, Ghanaian Coastal Plain, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
4.9275° or 4° 55′ 39″ north
Longitude
-1.749° or 1° 44′ 57″ west
Population
445,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
United Nations Location Code
GH SEK
Open location code
6CPWW7G2+X9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Waray—“Sekondi-Takoradi” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Oil City”
- Akan: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Arabic: “سيكوندي تاكورادي”
- Armenian: “Սեկոնդի Տակորադի”
- Belarusian: “Секанды-Такарады”
- Belarusian: “Секонды-Такарады”
- Belarusian: “Сэкандзі-Таракадзі”
- Bengali: “সেকুন্ডি -তাকুরাদি”
- Bulgarian: “Секонди Такоради”
- Bulgarian: “Секонди-Такоради”
- Catalan: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Cebuano: “Takoradi”
- Chinese: “塞康-塔科拉迪”
- Chinese: “塞康第-塔科拉迪”
- Chinese: “塞康第─塔科拉迪”
- Croatian: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Croatian: “Sekondi”
- Croatian: “Takoradi”
- Czech: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Czech: “Sekondi”
- Czech: “Takoradi”
- Dagbani: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Dagbani: “Takoradi”
- Danish: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Danish: “Sekondi”
- Danish: “Takoradi”
- Dutch: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Esperanto: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Fanti: “Sekunde-Takoradze”
- Finnish: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Finnish: “Takoradi”
- French: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- French: “Sékondi-Takoradi”
- French: “Sekondi”
- French: “Sékondi”
- Ga: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- German: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- German: “Sekondi”
- German: “Takoradi”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Oil City”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Taadi”
- Greek: “Σεκόντι-Τακοράντ”
- Gujarati: “સેકોન્ડી-ટેકોરડી”
- Hausa: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Hebrew: “סקונדי-טקורדי”
- Hindi: “सेकोन्डी टाकोरॉड्डी”
- Hungarian: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Ido: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Indonesian: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Irish: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Italian: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Japanese: “セコンディ・タコラディ”
- Japanese: “セコンディ”
- Japanese: “タコラディ”
- Kannada: “ಸೆಕೊಂಡಿ-ತಕೊರಾಡಿ”
- Korean: “세콘디-타코라디”
- Korean: “세콘디타코라디”
- Latvian: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Lithuanian: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Lithuanian: “Sekondis-Takoradis”
- Lithuanian: “Sekondis”
- Lithuanian: “Takoradis”
- Malay: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Marathi: “सेकोंंडी-टाकोराडी”
- Moksha: “Сэконди-Такоради”
- Northern Frisian: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Norwegian: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Persian: “سکوندی-تاکورادی”
- Polish: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Polish: “Sekondi”
- Polish: “Takoradi”
- Portuguese: “Sekondi Takoradi”
- Portuguese: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Portuguese: “Sekondi”
- Portuguese: “Takoradi”
- Russian: “Секонди-Такоради”
- Russian: “Секонди”
- Russian: “Такоради”
- Scots: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Serbian: “Секонди Такоради”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Sinhala: “සේකොන්ඩි-ටකොරඩි”
- Slovak: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Slovenian: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Slovenian: “Sekondi”
- Slovenian: “Takoradi”
- South Azerbaijani: “سکوندی-تاکورادی”
- Southern Dagaare: “Kãã Teŋɛ (Oil City)”
- Southern Dagaare: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Southern Dagaare: “Taadi”
- Spanish: “Sekondi Takoradi”
- Spanish: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Spanish: “Sekondi”
- Spanish: “Takoradi”
- Swahili: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Swedish: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Swedish: “Sekondi”
- Swedish: “Takoradi”
- Tajik: “Секонди-Такоради”
- Tamil: “செக்கொண்டி -தகோரடி”
- Telugu: “పూమిఆవ్”
- Thai: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Thai: “เซกันดี-ตาโกราดี”
- Turkish: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Twi: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Twi: “Sekune-Takorade”
- Ukrainian: “Секонді-Такораді”
- Urdu: “سیکونڈی-ٹاکوراڈی”
- Venetian: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Veps: “Sekondi Takoradi”
- Veps: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Vietnamese: “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sekondi-Takoradi”
- “Sekondi-Takoradi”
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