Wa

Wa is a town and the capital of the Wa Metropolitan Assembly and the of . It has a population of 200,672 people, according to the 2021 census.
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  • City with about 107,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 310 metres (1,000 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code WZA
  • …is also known as “Wa, Ghana”
  • Description: Upper West regional capital city

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wa Municipal District and Dondoli Mosque.
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Government office
is one of the eleven districts in , .
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Ruins
The is a located in the village…
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Aerodrome
is an airport serving Wa, a city in the…

Wa

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Latitude
10.0623° or 10° 3′ 44″ north
Longitude
-2.5054° or 2° 30′ 20″ west
UN/LOCODE
GH WA2
Open location code
7C2V3F6V+WR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 330058453
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2294206
Wiki­data ID
Q250733

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Akan to Vietnamese—“Wa” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Esirem”
  • Akan: “Wa”
  • Arabic: “وا”
  • Asturian: “Wa”
  • Belarusian: “Ва”
  • Bengali: “ওয়া”
  • Catalan: “Wa (Ghana)”
  • Catalan: “Wa”
  • Cebuano: “Wa (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Chinese: “瓦”
  • Chinese: “瓦城”
  • Croatian: “Wa (Gana)”
  • Croatian: “Wa”
  • Dagbani: “Wa, Ghana tiŋgbani ni”
  • Dagbani: “Wa, Ghana”
  • Dagbani: “Wa”
  • Danish: “Wa (Ghana)”
  • Danish: “Wa”
  • Dutch: “Wa (Ghana)”
  • Dutch: “Wa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “وا”
  • Esperanto: “Wa (Ganao)”
  • Esperanto: “Wa”
  • Finnish: “Wa (Ghana)”
  • Finnish: “Wa”
  • French: “Wa (Ghana)”
  • French: “Wa”
  • Ga: “Wa, Ghana”
  • Ga: “Wa”
  • German: “Wa (Ghana)”
  • German: “Wa”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Wa, Ghana”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Wa”
  • Greek: “Βα”
  • Gujarati: “વા”
  • Hausa: “Wa, Ghana”
  • Hausa: “Wa”
  • Hebrew: “ואה”
  • Hindi: “वा”
  • Hungarian: “Wa”
  • Indonesian: “Wa”
  • Italian: “Wa (Ghana)”
  • Italian: “Wa”
  • Japanese: “ワ”
  • Kannada: “ವಾ”
  • Korean: “와”
  • Latvian: “Va”
  • Lithuanian: “Va (Gana)”
  • Lithuanian: “Va”
  • Malay: “Wa”
  • Marathi: “वा”
  • Moksha: “Ва”
  • Mossi: “Wa, Ghana”
  • Mossi: “Wa”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wa (Ghaana)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Wa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wa”
  • Norwegian: “Wa (Ghana)”
  • Persian: “وا”
  • Polish: “Wa (Ghana)”
  • Polish: “Wa”
  • Portuguese: “Wa (Gana)”
  • Portuguese: “Wa”
  • Romanian: “Wa (Ghana)”
  • Romanian: “Wa”
  • Russian: “Ва”
  • Sinhala: “වා”
  • Slovenian: “Wa”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Wa, Ghana”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Wa”
  • Spanish: “Wa (Ghana)”
  • Spanish: “Wa”
  • Swahili: “Wa, Ghana”
  • Swahili: “Wa”
  • Swedish: “Wa”
  • Tamil: “வா”
  • Telugu: “వ”
  • Thai: “วา”
  • Turkish: “Wa”
  • Twi: “Wa, Ghana”
  • Twi: “Wa”
  • Ukrainian: “Ва”
  • Urdu: “وا، گھانا”
  • Urdu: “وا”
  • Vietnamese: “Wa”

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