Tema
Tema is a city on the Ghanaian Coastal Plain. It is 25 kilometres east of Accra, and had a population of 161,612 in 2013. It is the second-largest city in the Greater Accra Region after Accra.- Type: City with 160,000 residents
- Description: town in Ghana
- Also known as: “Tema New Town”, “Temma”, “Toma”, and “Тэма (Гана)”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tema Metropolitan Assembly.
Tema Metropolitan Assembly
Government office
Tema Metropolitan Assembly is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ashaiman.
Tema
- Categories: big city, port city, and locality
- Location: Tema Metropolitan Assembly, Greater Accra Region, Ghanaian Coastal Plain, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.6596° or 5° 39′ 35″ north
Longitude
-0.0097° or 0° 0′ 35″ west
Population
160,000
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
UN/LOCODE
GH TEM
Open location code
6CQXMX5R+V4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Volapük—“Tema” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Tema”
- Arabic: “تيما”
- Armenian: “Տեմա”
- Belarusian: “Тэма”
- Bengali: “টেমা”
- Catalan: “Tema”
- Cebuano: “Tema”
- Chinese: “特馬”
- Chinese: “特马”
- Croatian: “Tema”
- Czech: “Tema”
- Dagbani: “Tema”
- Danish: “Tema”
- Dutch: “Tema”
- Esperanto: “Tema”
- Finnish: “Tema”
- French: “Tema”
- Ga: “Tema”
- German: “Tema”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Tema”
- Greek: “Τέμα”
- Gujarati: “તેમા”
- Hausa: “Tema”
- Hebrew: “טמה”
- Hindi: “टेमा”
- Hungarian: “Tema”
- Indonesian: “Tema”
- Irish: “Tema”
- Italian: “Tema”
- Japanese: “テマ”
- Kannada: “ಟೇಮಾ”
- Korean: “테마”
- Latvian: “Tema”
- Lithuanian: “Tema”
- Luxembourgish: “Tema”
- Malay: “Tema”
- Marathi: “तेमा”
- Moksha: “Тэма”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tema”
- Norwegian: “Tema”
- Persian: “تما”
- Polish: “Tema”
- Portuguese: “Tema”
- Romanian: “Tema, Ghana”
- Romanian: “Tema”
- Russian: “Тема”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tema”
- Silesian: “Tema”
- Sinhala: “ටෙමා”
- Slovenian: “Tema”
- South Azerbaijani: “تما”
- Spanish: “Tema”
- Swahili: “Tema”
- Swedish: “Tema, Ghana”
- Swedish: “Tema”
- Tamil: “தேமா”
- Telugu: “టేమా”
- Thai: “เทมะ”
- Turkish: “Tema”
- Twi: “Tema”
- Ukrainian: “Тема”
- Urdu: “تیما، گھانا”
- Urdu: “تیما”
- Venetian: “Tema”
- Vietnamese: “Tema”
- Volapük: “Tema”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Community 4 and Community 7.
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