Yendi
Yendi is the biggest village in West Africa which has slowly transformed into a cosmopolitan town and the capital of Yendi Municipal district in the Volta Basin region of Ghana.
- Type: City with 52,000 residents
- Description: human settlement in Ghana
- Also known as: “Jendi”, “Naya”, and “Uendi”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Yendi Airport.
Yendi Airport
Aerodrome
Yendi Airport is an airport serving Yendi, a town in the Northern Region of Ghana.
Yendi
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Yendi Municipal District, Northern Region, Volta Basin, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
9.4466° or 9° 26′ 48″ north
Longitude
-0.0035° or 0° 0′ 13″ west
Population
52,000
Elevation
208 metres (682 feet)
Open location code
6CXXCXWW+MH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yoruba—“Yendi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يندى”
- Catalan: “Yendi”
- Cebuano: “Yendi”
- Dagbani: “Yendi”
- Danish: “Yendi”
- Dutch: “Yendi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “يندى”
- Farefare: “Yendi”
- French: “Yendi”
- Ga: “Yendi”
- German: “Yendi”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Yendi”
- Hausa: “Yendi”
- Hebrew: “ינדי”
- Igbo: “Yendi”
- Irish: “Yendi”
- Italian: “Yendi”
- Japanese: “イェンディ”
- Kusaal: “Yendi”
- Moksha: “Енди”
- Polish: “Yendi”
- Portuguese: “Yendi”
- Slovenian: “Yendi”
- Southern Dagaare: “Yendi”
- Spanish: “Yendi”
- Swahili: “Yendi”
- Swedish: “Yendi”
- Turkish: “Yendi”
- Twi: “Yendi”
- Urdu: “یندی”
- Vietnamese: “Yendi”
- Yoruba: “Yendi”
- “Yendi”
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