Anloga
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Anloga is a town in Anloga District of the Volta Region in southeast Ghana. It lies east of the Volta River and just south of the Keta Lagoon. Anloga is the forty-seventh most populous town in Ghana, in terms of population, with a population of 35,933 people and also serves as the seat of the Awormefia of Anlo State and the traditional, ancestral and spiritual capital of the Anlo Anlo Ewe.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Anloga
- Settlement.other_name
- Aŋlɔga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
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- House_in_Anloga.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A house in Anloga, Ghana
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- Ghana
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- bottom
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- Location in Ghana
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- 25px Ghana
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Volta Region
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- District
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- Anloga District Assembly
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
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- Ranked 47th in Ghana
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- 35,933
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- Religions
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Ghana
- Located in
- Keta Municipal District
- Continent
- Africa
- Elevation
- 21
- Image
- House in Anloga.jpg
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Anloga is a town in Anloga District of the Volta Region in southeast Ghana. It lies east of the Volta River and just south of the Keta Lagoon. Anloga is the forty-seventh most populous town in Ghana, in terms of population, with a population of 35,933 people and also serves as the seat of the Awormefia of Anlo State and the traditional, ancestral and spiritual capital of the Anlo Anlo Ewe.
==History== Anloga became the traditional and ritual capital of the Anlo Ewe in the seventeenth century after they migrated to the Keta Lagoon area from Notsie in Togo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anloga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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