Tema

Tema is a city on the . It is 25 kilometres east of , and had a population of 161,612 in 2013. It is the second-largest city in the Greater Accra Region after Accra.
Photo: Axe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • 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.

Government office
is one of the twenty-nine districts in , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ashaiman.

Town
is a large town and the capital of the…

Tema

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
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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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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