Ghana
Volta Basin
Northern Region

Tamale

Tamale is 's third city and the capital of Northern Ghana. Tamale has been voted three consecutive times by the Ghana Tourist Board as the cleanest city in Ghana and is proud of its well organized road networking in comparison to other cities and regions through Ghana.
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  • Type: City with 950,000 residents
  • Description: city in Northern Region, Ghana
  • Also known as: “Tamale, Ghana”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tamale Metropolitan District and Tamale Teaching Hospital.

Government office
Photo: Rtevels, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is one of the sixteen districts in the Northern Region of . It was originally established in 1988 as Tamale Municipal District, a municipal district assembly that was created from the former West Dagomba District Council.

Hospital
Photo: Masssly, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tamale Teaching Hospitalis a teaching hospital in Tamale in the Northern region and the third largest hospital in . It serves as a referral hospital for the five northern regions of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sakasaka and Sagnarigu.

Suburb
is a community in in the Northern Region of . It is the home ground of the Football Club.

Suburb
Tamale is 's third city and the capital of Northern Ghana. Tamale has been voted three consecutive times by the Ghana Tourist Board as the cleanest city in Ghana and is proud of its well organized road networking in comparison to other cities and regions through Ghana.

Tamale

Latitude
9.4052° or 9° 24′ 19″ north
Longitude
-0.8424° or 0° 50′ 33″ west
Population
950,000
Elevation
196 metres (643 feet)
IATA airport code
TML
United Nations Location Code
GH TML
Open location code
6CXXC545+32
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30933440
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2294877
Wiki­data ID
Q217040
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yoruba—“Tamale” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tamale”
  • Akan: “Tamale”
  • Akan: “Tamali”
  • Arabic: “تامال”
  • Arabic: “تامالي”
  • Asturian: “Tamale”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tamale”
  • Belarusian: “Тамале (Гана)”
  • Belarusian: “Тамале”
  • Belarusian: “Тамалэ”
  • Bengali: “তামালি”
  • Breton: “Tamale”
  • Catalan: “Tamale”
  • Cebuano: “Tamale (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Tamale”
  • Central Kanuri: “Tamale”
  • Chinese: “塔馬利”
  • Chinese: “塔马利”
  • Croatian: “Tamale”
  • Czech: “Tamale”
  • Dagbani: “Gumbilya yili”
  • Dagbani: “Tamale”
  • Dagbani: “Tamali”
  • Danish: “Tamale”
  • Dutch: “Tamale”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تامالى”
  • Esperanto: “Tamale”
  • Ewe: “Tamale”
  • Farefare: “Tamale”
  • Finnish: “Tamale”
  • French: “Tamale”
  • French: “Tamalé”
  • Ga: “Tamale”
  • Galician: “Tamale”
  • German: “Tamale”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tamale, Ghana”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tamale”
  • Greek: “Ταμάλ”
  • Gujarati: “ટમાલે”
  • Hausa: “Tamale, Ghana”
  • Hausa: “Tamale”
  • Hausa: “Tulebi yili”
  • Hebrew: “טאמאלה”
  • Hindi: “तामाले”
  • Hungarian: “Tamale”
  • Igbo: “Tamale”
  • Igbo: “Tulebi yili”
  • Indonesian: “Tamale, Ghana”
  • Indonesian: “Tamale”
  • Irish: “Tamale”
  • Italian: “Tamale”
  • Japanese: “タマレ”
  • Kannada: “ಟಮಾಲೆ”
  • Korean: “타말래”
  • Korean: “타말레”
  • Kusaal: “Tamale”
  • Latvian: “Tamale”
  • Lithuanian: “Tamale”
  • Lithuanian: “Tamalė”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tamale”
  • Malay: “Tamale”
  • Marathi: “टमाले”
  • Moksha: “Тамалэ”
  • Mossi: “Ragande Tenga”
  • Mossi: “Tamale”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tamale”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tamale”
  • Norwegian: “Tamale”
  • Persian: “تامالی”
  • Polish: “Tamale”
  • Portuguese: “Tamale”
  • Romanian: “Tamale”
  • Russian: “Тамале”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tamale, Gana”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tamale”
  • Silesian: “Tamale”
  • Sinhala: “ටමාලේ”
  • Slovak: “Tamale”
  • Slovenian: “Tamale”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تامالی”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Tamale”
  • Spanish: “Tamale”
  • Swahili: “Tamale, Ghana”
  • Swahili: “Tamale”
  • Swedish: “Tamale”
  • Tamil: “டாமேல்”
  • Tatar: “Тамале”
  • Telugu: “తమాలే”
  • Turkish: “Tamale”
  • Twi: “Tamale”
  • Ukrainian: “Тамале”
  • Urdu: “تامالی”
  • Urdu: “تامالے، گھانا”
  • Venetian: “Tamale”
  • Vietnamese: “Tamale, Ghana”
  • Vietnamese: “Tamale”
  • Volapük: “Tamale”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tamale, Ghana”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tamale”
  • Yoruba: “Tamale”
  • Yoruba: “Tulebi yili”
  • “Tamale”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Tamale”. Photo: Masssly, CC BY-SA 4.0.