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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 160,000 residents
- Description: town in Ghana
- Also known as: “Temma” and “Toma”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tema Metropolitan Assembly.
Tema Metropolitan Assembly
Government office
Tema Metropolitan Assembly is one of the twenty-nine districts in Greater Accra Region, Ghana. Originally created as a municipal district assembly in 1988 when it was known as Tema Municipal District, which was created from the former Tema District Council…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ashaiman.
Ashaiman
Town
Photo: Natborks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ashaiman is a large town and the capital of the Ashaiman Municipal District in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. According to the 2021 census, the town, along with the district, has a population of 208,060 people.
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″ northLongitude
-0.0097° or 0° 0′ 35″ westPopulation
160,000Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)United Nations Location Code
GH TEMOpen location code
6CQXMX5R+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 735505132OpenStreetMap 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 (Гана)”
- 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 New Town”
- 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 New Town”
- 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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