Lomé
Sign in to saveLomé ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Togo. It has an urban population of 837,437 while there were 2,188,376 permanent residents in its metropolitan area as of the 2022 census. Located on the Gulf of Guinea at the southwest corner of the country, with its entire western border along the easternmost edge of Ghana's Volta Region, Lomé is the country's administrative and industrial center, which includes an oil refinery. It is also the country's chief port, from where it exports coffee, cocoa, copra, and oil palm kernels.
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Lomé is the capital and largest city of Togo, located on the Gulf of Guinea with a metropolitan population of over 2 million people as of 2022. As Togo's administrative and industrial center, it serves as the country's main port and handles exports of goods like coffee, cocoa, and oil products.
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Place details
- Locality
- Lomé
- Region
- Région Maritime
- Country
- Togo
- Population
- 2,188,376
- Timezone
Article
27 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Colonial period
- Independence
- Climate
- Climate change
- Geography
- Districts and cities of Lomé
- International agreements
- Lomé Convention
- Lomé Peace Accord
- Economy
- Demographics
- Culture
- Architecture
- Places of worship
- Education
- Transport
- Road
- Rail
- Air
- Water
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Notable people
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Lomé ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Togo. It has an urban population of 837,437 while there were 2,188,376 permanent residents in its metropolitan area as of the 2022 census. Located on the Gulf of Guinea at the southwest corner of the country, with its entire western border along the easternmost edge of Ghana's Volta Region, Lomé is the country's administrative and industrial center, which includes an oil refinery. It is also the country's chief port, from where it exports coffee, cocoa, copra, and oil palm kernels.
Its city limits extends to the border with Ghana, located a few hundred meters west of the city center, to the Ghanaian city of Aflao and the South Ketu district where the city is situated, had 160,756 inhabitants in 2010. The cross-border agglomeration of which Lomé is the centre has about 2 million inhabitants as of 2020.