Navrongo (Ghana)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Navrongo (Ghana)
Coordinates
-1.084722222 -1.084722222 10.88333333 10.88333333 (gooearth )
W0010538 W0010538 N0105342 N0105342 (geonames )
Associated country
Ghana
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 156090682
Wikidata: Q995548
Library of congress: n 94004824
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 10°53ʹ42ʺN 001°05ʹ38ʺW)
  • Navrongo and its pioneers, between 1989 and 1992:fwd. (town and environs in Ghana)
  • Col.-Lipp. gaz., 1963:p. 1291 (Navrongo, in northern Gold Coast (i.e. Ghana))

Wikipedia description:

Navrongo is a town and the capital of Kassena-Nankana Municipal District in the Upper East Region of northern Ghana, adjacent to the border with Burkina Faso. Navrongo is an important market town, known for its cathedral and its grotto. It houses the Navrongo Solar Power Station, Ghana's first solar plant. Navrongo's population in 2005 was estimated to be 25,470, and in 2012 was estimated to be 27,306. The terrain is flat and the ecology is typical of the Sahel – arid grassland with occasional shrubbery.

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